Comments Thread For: Golovkin, Lemieux To Go Through VADA PED Testing

[mathed]

It's true that GGG, like most pro fighters, has never done random testing before a fight, but he's never refused it either.

I'll tell you one fighter who has refused to do random testing - Andre Ward.

Yeah and he worked with Conte or something too didn't he? Andre "Above all others" Ward

[Jubei]

We should make a list of all the GGG haters and their reasons for being a hater, they are pretty easily categorized.

1.) I am blinded by racism.
2.) GGG destroyed my favourite fighter
3.) GGG is going to destroy my favourite fighter
4.) GGG is way popular/exciting than my favourite fighter
5.) GGG is not signed with my god Al Haymon
6.) I am just a ****** and hate boxing

[Ham Porter]

Lmao it's like 3 weeks until the fight this testing is a joke and pointless little g the pioneer of clean testing for 3 weeks only after everything could already be flushed out system

That awkward moment a bumsniff suddenly realises the fraudulent nature of his idol's own drug testing procedures.

[Eff Pandas]

We should make a list of all the GGG haters and their reasons for being a hater, they are pretty easily categorized.

1.) I am blinded by racism.
2.) GGG destroyed my favourite fighter
3.) GGG is going to destroy my favourite fighter
4.) GGG is way popular/exciting than my favourite fighter
5.) GGG is not signed with my god Al Haymon
6.) I am just a ****** and hate boxing

Cmon #2 is a stretch. Like GGG has already fought a guy who'd be anyone's favorite fighter.

[ShoulderRoll]

Cmon #2 is a stretch. Like GGG has already fought a guy who'd be anyone's favorite fighter.

All those Daniel Geale and Osumanu Adama fans are butthurt.

[Lester Tutor]

All those Daniel Geale and Osumanu Adama fans are butthurt.

Beating Geale was a good start in facing Champ opposition. Lemeiux adds to GGG's a 2nd. The GGG vs Cotto bout will be interesting. It's boxing.

[Eff Pandas]

That's actually a pretty good idea. But I think even the WBC doesn't really have the funding to take on doing random drug testing year-round, much less for an entire division of fighters.

Maybe they could up their title fight purse cut from 3% to 5% (that'd have given them an extra $8M for Floyd vs Manny & an extra $20k per $1M in title fight purses) or whatever would be needed to fund this. I just think its doable, somehow, someway...if they really wanted to make the effort to do something about PEDs on some meaningful scale. The latter of which is my estimation despite the half measures they (or anyone else) are implementing.

But we can't compare the UFC to the WBC or Boxing Commissions. UFC is one unified organisation. WBC has a lot less power over fighters. And all the Boxing Commissions are separated, operating under their own rules. And the UFC has the funding to test all their fighters. Boxing has nothing like that.

I'd definitely be curious to see the UFC's PED testing accounting 1st year final figures to gauge how much this would cost for other groups. I believe both major testing groups has said the pricing gets better the more testing you require so these $35k-$150k numbers should be going down for the UFC vs the numbers we hear about for one fight.

And sure the UFC & the boxing alphabet groups have different power (I'll leave commissions out as I believe if anyone is gonna have meaningful PED testing in boxing with how things work today it'll need to be alphabet groups due to their having the widest reaching power in boxing & best ability to fund it), but I believe them both to have the power to get this done...again if they wanted it done. Truth be told the UFC didn't want it to happen for a long time themselves til they took enough criticism about PED'd up fighters. That level of criticism doesn't exist in boxing. Fans don't care &/or understand PEDs all that much it seems to me &/or enough people haven't been busted for it yet. The level of testing seems to follow along with the amount of fans who give a damn about it.

[Larry the boss]

Uh.....there is only like 3 weeks left before the fight, what good is testing now?

What a joke. At this point everything would be flushed out of your system

Lmao it's like 3 weeks until the fight this testing is a joke and pointless little g the pioneer of clean testing for 3 weeks only after everything could already be flushed out system

if the fight was signed in late july, why wait so long to agree to testing?

lol..........

[Larry the boss]

We should make a list of all the GGG haters and their reasons for being a hater, they are pretty easily categorized.

1.) I am blinded by racism.
2.) GGG destroyed my favourite fighter
3.) GGG is going to destroy my favourite fighter
4.) GGG is way popular/exciting than my favourite fighter
5.) GGG is not signed with my god Al Haymon
6.) I am just a ****** and hate boxing

so why are you now making threads about Jacobs and VADA if this was ok?

[Larry the boss]

Maybe GGG-Jacobs will go the same way