Testing in Boxing

**AllEyesOpen** · 03-28-2011, 06:00 PM

Originally posted by bojangles1987

There's no denying that the best testing available for fights is a good thing. Evening the playing field is a good thing. We should demand that even playing field.

The problem is that we need fighters to be consistent about it. Pascal doesn't demand testing for the first Hopkins fight but does for the second? What the hell is that? He has to be consistent and demand it for every fight he has from this point on or he looks like a hypocrite. Mayweather too. He has to demand blood testing for every fight he has from now on and if he doesn't he he is a hypocrite.

That's all I ask. There's no denying why testing is a good thing, but if the fighters bringing it up now don't stay consistent with it, then sanctioning bodies won't start taking them seriously and neither will fans.

I hear where your coming from, but it really shouldn't be in the hands of the fighter what kind of testing is done. The commission should keep up to date with the best testing available and if there are substances that can only be detected with blood testing then some sort of blood testing should be put in place.

Fighters shouldn'y have to demand better testing for their fight, the best testing should already be taking place.

**MindBat** · 03-28-2011, 06:01 PM

Your post died a quick death.

I wonder why

**bojangles1987** · 03-28-2011, 06:05 PM

Originally posted by MindBat

Your post died a quick death.

I wonder why

An insult. Yawn.

**Carpe Diem** · 03-28-2011, 06:06 PM

I have a feeling that there would be plenty of cover up if most of Boxing's top Main-Eventers were to test positive.

**bojangles1987** · 03-28-2011, 06:09 PM

Originally posted by P4P305

I have a feeling that there would be plenty of cover up if most of Boxing's top Main-Eventers were to test positive.

They'd probably take what baseball does to the extreme. Alex Rodriguez tested positive and it wasn't reported until the next season. Manny Ramirez tested positive in spring training or something like that and it wasn't reported until the next season.

Wouldn't surprise me if boxing covered it up until the fighter retired.

**Carpe Diem** · 03-29-2011, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by bojangles1987

They'd probably take what baseball does to the extreme. Alex Rodriguez tested positive and it wasn't reported until the next season. Manny Ramirez tested positive in spring training or something like that and it wasn't reported until the next season.

Wouldn't surprise me if boxing covered it up until the fighter retired.

Agree. Especially now since Boxing isn't at the top of all Sports anymore. There's no way Boxing would risk to exposed its top money makers and ratings drawers.

**mushahadeen** · 03-29-2011, 03:31 PM

obviously, the commission or governing body should regulate testing and should apply the strictest testing available.

but you cannot have individual fighters demanding testing just as you can't have the new york jets refuse to play the new england patriots unless the patriots succumb to whatever testing demand the jets deem necessary.

**IMDAZED** · 03-29-2011, 03:33 PM

If individual boxers don't demand it, the commissions will never implement it so please stop using that "boxers shouldn't ask for it" excuse. It's crap.

**ThePrince** · 03-29-2011, 03:38 PM

Originally posted by P4P305

I have a feeling that there would be plenty of cover up if most of Boxing's top Main-Eventers were to test positive.

probably. Happened in baseball and was working well until someone started leaking names of players who failed the tests, some a decade or so later.

And de la hoya still won't sign that release form...

Testing in Boxing