Shocking PED revelations by T. Hauser. GBP, Mayweather, Quillin, Morales.

[maguirre]

IMO Floyd cannot ignore it. He is a self-proclaimed crusader for a clean sport. He could clear himself in a heartbeat by showing all the test results from the fights Hauser mentions. If they are negative Floyd is a hero and Hauser is done as a writer.

Damage has been done. Floyd is now suspected of having used peds in God knows how many of his fights. It's irreversible.

This is the internet age. He knows about it, but his silence is deafening. He could clear his name in an instant if he wants to.

He can't blame people if they now see him as a ped user.

[flipbjefrox]

..same thoughts..no different from Teddy Atlas' claims..sounds like rumors..what drugs did he test positive?..when?..where's the proof?..cant believe someone made this a sticky...you need more ppl!!!

Teddy Atlas couldn't back up his sources with anything. Hauser named several instances where gbp tried to hide a positive test results and create special waivers when someone tests positive. If pac's rumor was true why didn't Floyd's lawyer subpoena atlas in court but instead it was Floyd who tuck his tail between his legs when his drug test results was requested by pac's team. Sound fishy don't you think. PAC fought ped allegations and won against gbp and Floyd. What will Floyd do? I'd like to see him sue Hauser

[Dr Rumack]

Wow. Crazy allegations.

But with the way boxing works, I don't know if there is a solution. If an athlete tests positive in team sports (football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc.), he gets suspended, fined, replaced and the show goes on. Even in other individual sports like golf and tennis, the athlete would just be ineligible to participate in the tournament. But the event still goes on. If a runner in a track meet gets caught cheating he gets removed from the race and the meet goes on. Even MMA can get around the issue with replacement fighters and stacked cards.

In boxing at the world class level, it takes 8 weeks to train for an opponent and 3-4 months to promote and build the event. Tickets are sold weeks and sometimes months in advance for mega-fights. Then you have the issue of the fans. Like a typical sporting even, the fans aren't local. Fans fly in from across the country and across the world to see boxing events. Between hotel, plane travel, expenses and tickets, it's expensive to attend a mega-fight. Cancelling an event is a burden on the promotional company, the other fighters involved in the event, the hosting facility and the fans.

You can't structure boxing like tennis, golf or NASCAR with multiple tournaments every year because boxing injuries take time to heal.


An obvious solution would to require anyone with a boxing license to agree to year around testing. But that would be expensive as hell and who would enforce it? Boxing in the U.S. is regulated at the state level. Maybe require anybody with a promoter license to pay 5% of their revenues to fund the drug testing efforts? Who knows?


Hopefully somebody has a solution because I can't see a solution to this problem happening any time soon.

Great points. The issue with boxing is that it's just two guys and if one can't fight the event is off. That's a pretty big incentive to ignore failed tests, or not to test at all.

Like I said yesterday, you really need the government to compel promoters to finance year round testing, because it's not going to happen otherwise.

[BattlingNelson]

That's what I was thinking yesterday. The chairman of the BWAA reproducing a rumour about the biggest draw in the sport failing drug tests is no small deal.

The thing is surely Hauser has to know that, and surely he has to know that if the rumours are false and Mayweather can produce documents to that effect, well then his career is in serious trouble.

He may have taken care to stress that it's just a rumour, but the way he links it to incidents during the Pacquiao defamation trial don't leave much doubt about what he really thinks.

Hauser is done if Floyd is clean. If he wasn't certain he shouldn't have printed it.

[flipbjefrox]

USADA is funded by the government and has to respond to them. Surely they will lose their funding if they don't come up with a plausible story.

I don't think this even makes it to their desk. Besides boxing websites who else care? It's not like Floyd is on the same level as Armstrong. Armstrong had the whole continent of Europe asking questions. Who's asking questions in america

[BattlingNelson]

I don't think this even makes it to their desk. Besides boxing websites who else care? It's not like Floyd is on the same level as Armstrong. Armstrong had the whole continent of Europe asking questions. Who's asking questions in america

The USADA tests american olympic athletes. Surely it is in the interest of Congress that USADA has an impeccable reputation or else they'd look like East Germany.

[ModernTalking]

Gayroid is nowhere to bee seen.

Runtucky Roid Chicken

[BattlingNelson]

Gayroid is nowhere to bee seen.

Runtucky Roid Chicken

Great post man! Welcome to my iggy.

[The Big Dunn]

IMO Floyd cannot ignore it. He is a selfproclaimed crusader for a clean sport. He could clear himself in a heartbeat by showing all the test results from the fights Hauser mentions. If they are negative Floyd is a hero and Hauser is done as a writer.

fair point but floyd doesn't have to clear himself of anything since Hauser doesn't accusse him of anything point blank, he just insinuates and cites rumors. Hauser got the added attention and the anti floyd and/or pro manny crowd is definitely running with it. So its a win win for TR in the boxing blogosphere. But hardly something floyd neds to hold a press conference to refute at this stage.

[BattlingNelson]

fair point but floyd doesn't have to clear himself of anything since Hauser doesn't accusse him of anything point blank, he just insinuates and cites rumors. Hauser got the added attention and the anti floyd and/or pro manny crowd is definitely running with it. So its a win win for TR in the boxing blogosphere. But hardly something floyd neds to hold a press conference to refute at this stage.

This is sports. Not the court of law. This is the court of public opinion.

As it is today in Europe and in cycling in particular, you have to prove your innocence and not the other way around. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.