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

[Mate_Parlov]

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

Mayweather testing was not random either, and he got caught. HOW ****** IS THAT?

[Barcham]

Why couldn't any fighter the WBC ranked be put under this rule too? I understand there being a bigger deal their champion is clean, but why not everyone they ranked also? Seems like it'd be better to find the guy with PEDs BEFORE he's won your title anyway. Bad PR & ****.

Because fighting for a WBC title or holding a title is a choice a fighter makes. A fighter has no say at all as to where or even if he appears in the rankings of any sanctioning body. I think the WBC plan is solid and that they should begin testing a fighter on the same day he is announced as having signed for a title fight.

And there is nothing stopping a fighter from voluntarily participating in the WBC testing program as far as I am aware.

[radioraheem]

Why couldn't any fighter the WBC ranked be put under this rule too? I understand there being a bigger deal their champion is clean, but why not everyone they ranked also? Seems like it'd be better to find the guy with PEDs BEFORE he's won your title anyway. Bad PR & ****.

It's a bit confusing actually. Because it seems that it's not really mandatory. It's just they are stepping in to encourage the fighters to enroll into it. And only the fighters within their Top 15.

[Barcham]

It's a bit confusing actually. Because it seems that it's not really mandatory. It's just they are stepping in to encourage the fighters to enroll into it. And only the fighters within their Top 15.

I believe that it is mandatory for WBC title holders and for title fights but voluntary for everyone else. They have released multiple statements on this new policy since their last conference in Dec 2014 and they do not all make perfect sense, like most things that come out of the WBC. Maybe they will clear it up a bit at their upcoming conference in China.

[Eff Pandas]

Because fighting for a WBC title or holding a title is a choice a fighter makes. A fighter has no say at all as to where or even if he appears in the rankings of any sanctioning body. I think the WBC plan is solid and that they should begin testing a fighter on the same day he is announced as having signed for a title fight.

And there is nothing stopping a fighter from voluntarily participating in the WBC testing program as far as I am aware.

It still seems like the WBC could weld as much power as they want to here to me. They could just as easily throw in that anyone ranked who doesn't volunteer to be 24/7/365 tested loses their rank or can't be chosen for a title shot or whatever. Again this is someone in boxing with power who's taken half measures on something that needs full measures. No one REALLY wants PED testing like it should be, even like it should be at a bare minimum which would seem to be all ranked fighters get tested.

[DoktorSleepless]

WBC's new policy states that all their title holders will be subject to random testing throughout the year, not only when preparing for fights. That is the most that any sanctioning body can mandate as unless you hold a WBC title, or are fighting in a WBC sanctioned title fight, they have no reason at all and no right at all to test you.

Doesn't seem like it. The only mandatory testing is the regular testing they've always done. The extra VADA testing will be voluntary.

http://www.boxingscene.com/wbc-prez-explains-new-vada-drug-testing-program--95312

“We have instituted the mandatory drug testing for all title fights since 1975,” Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com. “We want to make boxing safer. We are instituting VADA, which includes random testing to any fighter rated in the top 15 of a division. It includes voluntary testing for the fight and hopefully the other organizations do something similar.”

I think the only difference with the team-up is that the WBC will help pay for the testing.

[radioraheem]

It still seems like the WBC could weld as much power as they want to here to me. They could just as easily throw in that anyone ranked who doesn't volunteer to be 24/7/365 tested loses their rank or can't be chosen for a title shot or whatever. Again this is someone in boxing with power who's taken half measures on something that needs full measures. No one REALLY wants PED testing like it should be, even like it should be at a bare minimum which would seem to be all ranked fighters get tested.

I think the reason why the WBC can't really make it mandatory is because they'd be stepping on the toes of boxing commissions. And it's the boxing commissions that have the authority to make random drug testing mandatory. And unless they do that, it remains voluntary.

[tiliheels]

respesct............................

the more u learn about ped's the more u will see that this is sham of testing..

[tangalog2200]

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

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

you are right...

hauser will not write anything yet on this one like in the floyd IV issue...

too early for that....hauser has to see a tue granted 3 weeks out first..

[mathed]

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

This adds to my su****ion about whether GGG is a clean boxer or not. Never done testing, when he does it's a few weeks before the fight.