Why no accusations of PED use for Cotto?

[Doctor_Tenma]

I'm with you man. Look, I know Martinez looked like utter crap but I've never, ever seen coot look like that. He looked like a PR version of Mayweather last night. He hurt a man 15 pounds heavier (just guessing at the weight) with nearly every punch, didn't appear to fade at all, was pinpoint with every single shot he threw and was miles faster than I have ever seen him before. The dude looked like a machine.

The people at my house were also wondering what was up with his amazing transformation. His trainer did work with GSP and that dude doesn't exactly look like he is a stranger to roids but I'll still give them the benefit of the doubt. I'll just say that was the best version of Cotto I have ever seen and I feel that the version of Cotto from last night would and should be favored against virtually anyone from 147-160

Cotto was slowing down noticeably and he does his usual posturing/ little defensive maneuvers to hide it from his opponents. It didn't look as bad as we're used to seeing because Martinez couldn't get in any kind of work to the body.

[Jbee310]

Cotto obviously on peds

Martinez can take chavez jr (cruiser weight )shots but can't handle cottos

[El Angel]

So good he must be cheating.

[fcastro1]

Cotto doesn't have memo in his corner /thread.

[Lords]

If Cotto was on PED's he would NOT have weighed in at 155, period. Every top fighter that gets an upset win in high fashion will be accused of PED's. Stop.

[lefthook2daliva]

So good he must be cheating.

Must be.

Anybody who forces a stoppage on a bigger guy after beating the **** out of him for 8 or 9 rounds has to be on da roids, right?

Right?

Or is it only if they KTFO6 Pacquiao in the last coupla' years?

[The Hammer]

I suspect Ward and Donaire (who work with Victor Conte), Froch (who suddenly became a relentless puncher in the Bute fight after looking weaker against Ward), Hopkins (who suddenly got better in his mid-40s after he faded a bit with age) and Cotto, who has new power and aggression in his past two fights.

But there's no proof any of them are on PEDs.

We have proof Toney (twice), Briggs, G Jones, R Jones, Wach and Pederson abused PEDs because they tested positive.

[Ya Boy NeXt]

I'm with you man. Look, I know Martinez looked like utter crap but I've never, ever seen coot look like that. He looked like a PR version of Mayweather last night. He hurt a man 15 pounds heavier (just guessing at the weight) with nearly every punch, didn't appear to fade at all, was pinpoint with every single shot he threw and was miles faster than I have ever seen him before. The dude looked like a machine.

The people at my house were also wondering what was up with his amazing transformation. His trainer did work with GSP and that dude doesn't exactly look like he is a stranger to roids but I'll still give them the benefit of the doubt. I'll just say that was the best version of Cotto I have ever seen and I feel that the version of Cotto from last night would and should be favored against virtually anyone from 147-160

Found a snippet from an article that was published around the time of the Delvin Rodriguez fight, when Cotto first worked with Roach and S&C coach Gavin MacMillan. If you google "Cotto's strength coach MacMillan" it's the first link that shows up.

MacMillan said he is grateful for the fact that both Provodnikov and St. Pierre have enrolled in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) for a few reasons. The stigma in boxing, unfairly, is that strength coaches are the one who bring performance enhancing drugs to the gym. Having his fighters willingly entering into arguably the world’s most stringent drug testing protocol, is not only a ringing endorsement of his work’s cleanliness but also gives him a screening process for clients. MacMillan will not work with anyone using or looking to us PEDs.

“Well yeah, it is for a lot of reasons. Because for number one if guys are taking this stuff I won’t work with them,” said MacMillan. “Anybody that knows me knows that. I don’t want anything to do with it. There’s too many of the trainers that are in boxing or are in MMA that are pushing [PEDs]. I don;t know what the percentage is but its really high. And most of the [commissions] aren’t testing for HGH [Human Growth Hormone] so that goes unaccounted for. And now that they’ve legalized if your testosterone falls below a certain level [The T/E ratio test and/or The****utic Use Exemptions for synthetic testosterone] they are making it legal to take it by prescription, it makes it an even tougher issue.”

The accusations of PED use are frustrating accusation for St. Pierre and MacMillan, prompting GSP to undergo testing with VADA to clear the air once and for all.