How come Edwin Valero never tested positive for anything...

[Kevin Malone]

he wasn't a "supposed" drug addict. He WAS a drug addict. They tested his blood when he hanged himself and his blood was 90% *******.

he just didn't abuse drugs while training for a fight.

Wow 90%. That's a miracle he lived that long...

[ИATAS]

why is it hard to understand that valero wasn't on drugs during training camp/fights?

The way I see it, he wasn't some crack-head his whole life. I'm sure he did drugs his whole life and but it wasn't always a problem. He partied, etc. but when it was time to train, all accounts say he trained very hard, he was a very hard worker. You can't be on drugs like that and be a gym rat. Doesn't work that way.

The last year of his life I think his drug use spiraled out of control and especially the last several months of his life to the point he was using every day. He wasn't like that his whole life, or else he would not have been a good fighter.

[Eric Holder]

I was under the impression that ******* leaves the system in a day or two.... I know the tests for coke are for a metabolite that's formed from the liver (don't ask me to spell it out though) and that metabolite's only around for a month or so (he probably didn't do any while training)

[Russian Crushin]

if he was supposedly a drug addict his whole life? I was watching his last fight and i couldn't help but wonder. It doesn't really make me feel great about the current testing to be honest.

He didnt fight in the US...plus im pretty sure he came of the drugs during training camp.....hard to beleive an athlete with a hardcore drug addiction could do everyhting he did high

[Guest]

I was under the impression that ******* leaves the system in a day or two.... I know the tests for coke are for a metabolite that's formed from the liver (don't ask me to spell it out though) and that metabolite's only around for a month or so (he probably didn't do any while training)

This is correct. It can be detected in hair samples but as far as I know they wouldn't be testing his hair.

[ИATAS]

I was under the impression that ******* leaves the system in a day or two.... I know the tests for coke are for a metabolite that's formed from the liver (don't ask me to spell it out though) and that metabolite's only around for a month or so (he probably didn't do any while training)

Yes but if you're a coke addict there is no possible way you can be at the gym as much as valero was. Read interviews, watch video's, etc. about how hard of a worker he was. The theory that Valero was always a drug addict doesn't fit.

It's a more likely scenario that he was a user of drugs, but it was never a big problem. He would party, etc. but during training camp leading up to the fight, he was clean, or at least for the most part clean.

[The_Golden_Boi]

Would be something new if they did start testing hair for it alwell before fight's!

[Eric Holder]

Yes but if you're a coke addict there is no possible way you can be at the gym as much as valero was. Read interviews, watch video's, etc. about how hard of a worker he was. The theory that Valero was always a drug addict doesn't fit.

It's a more likely scenario that he was a user of drugs, but it was never a big problem. He would party, etc. but during training camp leading up to the fight, he was clean, or at least for the most part clean.

right, Valero was actually really respected for his work ethic.. he was kind of a gym legend in so. cal (I've heard Rudy Hernandez and Joe Hernandez speak real highly of him)

[The_Golden_Boi]

I think he was a good prospect for years and years to come, he showed us what he was made of through all his fights!

It is just a shame his personal life took a turn in the wrong direction! Killing his wife which he couldn't forgive himself for! Why he did it I don't know but I do know well think, he killed himself because he couldn't live with the fact that he killed her!!

[Russian Crushin]

Wow 90%. That's a miracle he lived that long...

LMAO 90% hahahahahha. He must have bled coke instead of blood then....90% hahahahah