Comments Thread For: Mayweather Under Hot Fire Over USADA/IV Scandal

[Pac=Duran]

Level playing field doe.

All these fishy things will come out when he retires, mark my word.

Cleaning up the sport doe. J'Leon Love (Mayweather's taxi driver/******* butler) probably supplied the offending banned equipment and chemicals just after bleaching and waxing Floyd crack.

[paulf]

What the **** is a retroactive exemption?

I mean, I had Mayweather to win and cant stand Bob Arum or 2011-Present Pacquiao, but come the **** on. He did something that was explicitly banned, and then three weeks later the agency that's supposed to be holding people accountable give him an exemption?

Come on. Of course Floyd wasnt taking steroids or anything, but if he doesnt have to follow the rules then why did Pacquiao? I dont like it.

[Jsmooth9876]

So one guy writes a article with unconfirmed sources and rumor and its smoke/fire. Yet major news sources like ESPN who would love to break a story like this is just like...oh who cares....what a joke. Mayweather is the most hated athlete in the world, yet not one credible news source is on record with this story except this cornball writer. Only this guy knows...yeah ok.

This story has been around since they settled the lawsuit with Pac...who knows why it's never been a big story... I know they settled that case with the quickness when subpoenaed for those results though. One plus one usually equals two....

But go ahead and believe what you want. I have my opinions and you have yours. I think all top level athletes cheat to get that edge. Usually the ones who cry loudest about cheaters are the ones doing it themselves.

[Calabis]

What was the IV for? Did they have to specify on the paperwork? Was it just dehydration? Why wouldn't every fighter just do this to rehydrate after cutting weight? Seems like a no brainer to me. Except every other fighter would get turned down most likely where Floyd got the TUE.. Money talks....

De La Hoya did it, yet you didn't give two ****s because he still was a shell of himself. UFC fighters do it all the time. Last time I checked it states what he had in it. Saline and Vitamin C.

“Before the fight started. When he gained two pounds [from 145 to 147] between the weigh-in and fight time.” In an earlier point in the interview, Roach said: “I saw the IV in his arm, I saw the IV marks, it was fresh tape, they hydrated him too late, they waited too long to hydrate him. It was nothing illegal… The thing was, they couldn’t get anything into his system… Nobody let him build his body back up. They did it to themselves.”


Looking for a smoking gun that ain't there.

[Rath]

Yes, it's naive enough you can't even make a defense. Instead you cop a plea and claim 'lawyering.'

Public pressure is not going to change anything. Random drug testing isn't being implemented today because of the public. But because of the athletes themselves who had pockets to voluntarily pay for it.

random drug testing is implemented, it is the all year round testing that is not.

Floyd style random drug testing only starts when Floyd signed the contract.

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What the **** is a retroactive exemption?

I mean, I had Mayweather to win and cant stand Bob Arum or 2011-Present Pacquiao, but come the **** on. He did something that was explicitly banned, and then three weeks later the agency that's supposed to be holding people accountable give him an exemption?

Come on. Of course Floyd wasnt taking steroids or anything, but if he doesnt have to follow the rules then why did Pacquiao? I dont like it.

imo pacquaio should have roided to the gills

they both knew the fight was too big too cancel and too much money was being thrown around for anyone to actually be sidelined

i guess floyd just knew it more

[maguirre]

You always know when people are guilty of something. They're taking a low profile. This guy's silence has been very noticeable for a long while now.

[Calabis]

This story has been around since they settled the lawsuit with Pac...who knows why it's never been a big story... I know they settled that case with the quickness when subpoenaed for those results though. One plus one usually equals two....

But go ahead and believe what you want. I have my opinions and you have yours. I think all top level athletes cheat to get that edge. Usually the ones who cry loudest about cheaters are the ones doing it themselves.

Yes they settled, because there is no way in hell that it could have meant it was cheaper to settle, than to pay lawyer fees and then the amount Pac sued for.....smh. This guy can't provide court documents or anything, yet he knows.

[HanzGruber]

So what he took wasn't a banned substance lol. And someone wanna tell me why wada's rules matter if they were using usada?

[radioraheem]

You are deflecting or lost track about the posts.

Urine testing was said to be done just before and after Floyd took that substance. Blood testing was done only after the fight not just before Floyd took that substance. That is the key because if the substance was used to mask what Floyd was on, then USADA made a huge mistake. That is kinda weird with the experience they had with Lance Armstrong, as an example, who used to do just that. Mask with a saline type substance.

Lance Armstrong didn't often 'mask' substances. The number one thing he did was duck and dodge test takers. He normally had excuses and was a no-show.

Both Pacquiao and Mayweather were also tested a day before, and the samples passed. The likelihood he was masking a banned substance on fight day is just extremely unlikely.

If people are going to run with conspiracy theories, they should maybe go with out-of-competition usage. At least that has some legs because anyone can do it and no one would know.