Lamont needed the testosterone because he had a"substantial testosterone insuffiency

[New England]

I believe it does..... Athletes in all contact sports are suffering from the testosterone deficiency, not just LAmont.

If the medical records, and paper work back up what has been said, and proves to be right, then I think people have no reason to not back Lamont Peterson.

Regardless, Lamont will wear the "Cheater" label like a scarlett letter.

that's why you defend yourself

punches take something out of you

you want to try and take drugs to put it back in? what ever happened to getting out of the way?
does that make any sense?


i am really out of it on this one. makes zero sense to me. juicing is juicing. it's an unfair advantage.

lamont had many times the level of testosterone that's deemed "natural"
how is that fair?

[FrankieBruno]

Everything since the first fight has been dodgy about Lemonts camp this is the icing on the cake. They knew he never had a chance against Khan so they roided up, simple as. It's hard to believe people like Lemont exist inthe sport, but sadly it is reality and there will always be idiots who try their luck.

[Russian Crushin]

i dont at all believe in the idea that a professional boxer can have any sort of "testosterone deficiency"

that's a line in the sand as far as i am concerned. your testosterone is what it is.

that's my stance on the ethics of the situation. there's a much longer conversation that can be had on it, but i cant be getting into that this morning.

now, that being said, what i believe is ethical means absolutely nothing. if peterson was indeed given a pass to take testosterone by a medical authority and it's in congruence with the regulations of the commission then he's done nothing wrong according to the rules

juicing is juicing in my eyes, but he's technically not breaking any rules

still waiting for things to come to the surface and the real story and the consequences to come out.

it certainly appears though that peterson is taking steroids, "legal" or otherwise.

Here's the thing. What is specified as "low testosterone levels"? Normal males levels are from like 250-1000. So if he has 270, does he have low testosterone?

Another thing is the wording the of the statement released, that he had "substantial testosterone insufficiency". What does that mean exactly? I cant quite figure out what is meant by insufficiency. That they werent sufficient enough to beat Khan?

In the end, he never disclosed that he was juicing until after getting caught. Im sorry but you dont simply "forget" about taking steroids

[bojangles1987]

Funny how that works into his name

Dirk had the best with Lamont PEDerson. Perfect.

[Russian Crushin]

Its funny to me that after the crusade on drugs, people would actually take his side on when he actually fails a test, for steroids nonetheless.

And people still give him the benefit of the doubt when you attempts to use the oldest excuse in the book

[Fish_Scotland]

I believe it does..... Athletes in all contact sports are suffering from the testosterone deficiency, not just LAmont.

If the medical records, and paper work back up what has been said, and proves to be right, then I think people have no reason to not back Lamont Peterson.

Regardless, Lamont will wear the "Cheater" label like a scarlett letter.

But Lamont is the one that had to "self medicate" for it? GTFOH He clearly didn't see a doctor as they wouldn't have over medicated the patient surely. (I'm half expecting some dodgy back street doctor near retirement to come out after a pay-off saying it was all his fault)

Done some research and I think it's safe we can rule out the most common reason for lower testosterone in men: Age.

So lets look at some of the other causes.

Trauma – A direct physical injury to the testes. Has Paterson only got one ball?

Castration – Surgical removal of the testes. Maybe he doesn't have any?

Radiation treatment or chemotherapy - No cancer we are aware of or maybe he's just not disclosed that yet.

HIV/AIDS – Viruses or other infectious agents. Again he's maybe forgot about some autoimmune deficiency he has. Easily done I guess.


So that pretty much leaves a couple of options:

Genetically-Based Conditions or Medications. We could rule out the genetic ones with a few tests (which I'm sure won't be needed) which leads you to the absolutely most probable cause of his low levels....

Medications – Certain drugs used to treat medical conditions that affect the brain(e.g., opiate pain medications such as morphine) and hormones (e.g., cortisone-like medications such as prednisone, and anabolic steroids) may inhibit LH and FSH secretion by the pituitary, and in turn, testosterone production by the testes.

I understand the above list is not entirely inclusive of all causes but if you look at other factors, particularly behaviour that insinuates guilt, you an only draw one conclusion unless you are entirely naive.

Here was the medical source used for the info if you want to check it out. Interesting read if your into Biology!

http://www.hormone.org/Resources/Pat...stosterone.pdf

[SCEN3RY]

The standard excuse as expected




At what point did he tell the tester? I thought his team said he didn't remember what he took until the second positive test

Peterson is talking bull and also what would VADA gain from lying in this instance?

Exposure.

Victor Conte's image is clearing up as we speak. Everybody will know VADA and will connect this incident to every conversation and article regarding testing procedures in sports henceforth. If he has a doctor's note, then it's more than likely bull****, but still he has the note...for all we know mosley, ortiz and/or mayweather pulled the same **** with USADA, the **** is USADA gonna say, '**** ur doctor's note?' No. VADA isn't jeopardizing a PPV event, it's just an HBO fight...a big enough fight however to gain some good exposure. But again, I'm only answering your question, I'm not saying that's the way it went down. Maybe he really did just **** up and is only trying to salvage the situation as best he can at this point.

[kiaba360]

Boxing fans never get a break, now we gotta deal with yet another controversy.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

The Nevada Commission and GBP can go on with this fight but we all know this whole thing is a lie and PEDerson(I'll keep the trend going) is a damn fraud.