Comments Thread For: Schaefer: “I Am Not in The Drug Testing Business”

[al-Xander]

I'm not picking on you, I like most of your posts. But look, these guys were the pioneers of the OSDT fad, remember them boasting about it? They refuse to work with the agency that does exactly what you ask for, forward the results to the commission. Instead they go with the guys who have no contacts with the commission, and funnel everything through GBP. And now he's whining about being involved? Easy solution, go with the VADA or drop the drug testing window dressing.

That's the mystery. VADA has been catching cheats for less money
but Schaefer don't want it. It's mind-boggling.

[straightleft]

This useless USADA/GBP 2 months testing started by Floyd just to duck Pac and it causes havoc now to boxing community. Floyd failed his own tests on 3 occasions but what else GBP can do cancel the fight after spending millions of $$$ to promote his fights and USADA ban Floyd for 2 years who is currently the bread and butter in boxing? LMAO is not gonna happen. Boxing is business and without business there is no money. Either we admit or not Boxing promoters help boxers to earn a living, without them there is no pro boxing. Now they starting to realize what headaches Floyd brought here to cover up his admitted cherry picking cowardice.

I'm not against for better testing but Floyd 2 months USADA poor copy of the real Olympic testing is just a joke and will not help to clean the sport at all.

[mjkirby]

When did Floyd fail even one test never mind 3 !!!
Even the slightest rumor of him failing tests would cut his revenue massive and be every where just imagine Skip Bayless keeping quiet ? No I dont think so.
Idiot...

[lfc19titles]

Lol what a scumbag. You make usada report to you and you alone for positive tests. Then you decide if they are guilty or not. You need to be put out of boxing. When vada tries to do the right thing and report it yo the commission, you try to put them out of business

[MikeRo1972]

Schaefer is such a douche bag. He says the fighters "cry" for drug testing. Then he points the finger at the commission, then he blames media for putting his corrupt a55 on blast. What a piece of work this guy is.

Let me lay it out for you Mr Schaefer (it isn't rocket science). So long as you the promotor have a vested financial interest in a fighter who risks his life to put money in your pocket then YES you have a responsibility. D!ckhead.

[Ray*]

Drug testing is great only for the fighters and fighters alone, and who said anything about testers promoting a fight? No one asked a promoter to be an expert on testing but at least make sure your fighters are safe before they get in the ring with a drugged up cheater.

[check hook]

Bob Arum said exactly the same thing. Promoters want no part of drug-testing unless it's forced on them. Failed tests cost them a lot of money.

Ofcourse. That's completely logical. Every single thread i made on the PED issue in 2010 and 11 and every one i commented on had this issue at it's core. The major stakeholders, the networks, promoters, state commissions, even sanctioning bodies do not want testing. It's introduces a massive business risk to them, which is why, without a single governing body overseeing the sport and laying down the law so to speak it's up to the fighters to demand it. Unfortunately you and half this board were too ****** to realise this. Too busy denigrating the idea of more stringent testing protocols because a certain fighter happened to have introduced the idea.

[check hook]

Schaefer is such a douche bag. He says the fighters "cry" for drug testing. Then he points the finger at the commission, then he blames media for putting his corrupt a55 on blast. What a piece of work this guy is.

Let me lay it out for you Mr Schaefer (it isn't rocket science). So long as you the promotor have a vested financial interest in a fighter who risks his life to put money in your pocket then YES you have a responsibility. D!ckhead.

Ethically he has a duty of care, but this sport has been unethical since time immemorial, and there are no consequences to worry about from a promoters perspective.

[mathed]

"I'm not in the drug testing business"....I know, you are in the lying business

[New England]

Bob Arum said exactly the same thing. Promoters want no part of drug-testing unless it's forced on them. Failed tests cost them a lot of money.

even if they pass, if you want bonafide random testing for a couple / few months it costs tens of thousands of dollars.


testing an athlete year round would cost six figures. it's just not financially viable to olympic level test anybody but the best of the best fighters.