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

[SplitSecond]

Matthyse-Postol and Rios-Bradley are also doing it.

[SplitSecond]

this is ******ed...the fight is like less than a month away...why bother with testing now

Reminiscent of Rigondeaux vs Donaire holding out his signature and having the testing only start about a month out.

[Cinci Champ]

No corrupt USADA hiding floyds and lance armstrong's tests etc. Gennady setting the standard for a clean sport. Gennady is NOW THE OFFICIAL pioneer of a clean sport.

as long as conte says so.....oh wait

[DeadLikeMe]

No point to starting now.

[Eastcoast]

To those saying it's a waste of time, T/E ratio's are still relevant and if WADA sees a low ratio like Floyd's they'll actually investigate it.


All drug testing is suspect as the promotional en****** have too much influence over how it's done and what's being looked for. It needs to be federal law that in order to hold a sports combat license you should be required to get monthly testing for your baseline levels. Then if they fluctuate past a threshold the fighter is more intricately investigated.

[Cinci Champ]

im confused tho dont they fight in like 2 or 3 weeks. im glad they are doing the testing but this is an obvious pr ploy just so they can say they did it. dont get me wrong tho im glad they are doing it

[Eff Pandas]

They are small samples but to my mind it's indicating that VADA are about 8 times as likely to catch a PED user as USADA. If you were researching into this from a zero prior knowledge perspective then those stats right there would jump out at you and catch your attention.

Not if you know those aren't proper sample sizes to develop much of an opinion from yet. You could certainly take the optimistic stance that VADA would catch 1,200+ guys on PEDs vs USADA catching just 150 if all 15,000+(?) pro boxers were tested & those numbers would easily transfer over to a sample size 120x larger, but I'd gladly bet against VADA maintaining those numbers into the 500 fighters tested range (which would mean they'd need to catch 38 more guys outta the next 460+ tested).

[radioraheem]

So who's the blame? Is it VADA or the fighters? Will we discredit VADA because the fighters agreed with less than a month left? Will we expect VADA to release a statement saying testing is useless with less than a month left? The fight is on HBO. Will we expect a report from Hauser on the merits, or lack thereof, of VADA testing with less than 30 days until the fight?

They'd be talking down on USADA if this were them.

We won't see anything from Hauser about this, I guarantee.

[Teetotaler]

Good to hear they're doing drug testing with a good reliable agency

[Vasyl’s dad]

Whats the point? If its not year round, its not random.