Are Wilder and Szpilka still going to be random tested?

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  • Fury4daWIN
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    #1

    Are Wilder and Szpilka still going to be random tested?

    Szpilka mentioned in the week preceding the fight that the random testing supposedly in place for this fight had yet to begin. Wilder and his team then responded that there would be random testing, either pre- or post-fight. Since I'm unaware of any random tests having been done since then is this still going to be carried out? And how exactly would it work?

    The heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Artur Szpilka was only made official last week, on Dec. 9, a mere 38 days before they were to meet in the main event of a Showtime broadcast at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. As of Dec. 16, with a month to go, drug testing hadn’t yet begun. Both men want it to happen, but the fact that it wasn’t yet official led Szpilka to bring up the topic toward the end of a media conference call.
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    #2
    how is it "random testing" if it's post fight?

    there wasnt any testing at all, take a wild guess why

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      #3
      Originally posted by Courage Award
      how is it "random testing" if it's post fight?

      there wasnt any testing at all, take a wild guess why
      Of course post-fight random testing is a nonsense, but that's what Wilder himself said, so I want to know if it'll still happen.

      Was there any testing at all for this fight?
      Last edited by Fury4daWIN; 01-18-2016, 02:55 PM.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Fury4daWIN
        Of course post-fight random testing is a nonsense, but that's what Wilder himself said, so I want to know if it'll still happen.

        Was there any testing at all for this fight, anyway?
        Wilder said on the same conference call, which was about 10 days before the fight, that he had just got back from giving blood for the test at Labcorps. He did his testing pre-fight.

        Szpilka said on the call that he hadn't tested. Probably did it a day or two later. Being random, they don't say "We'll be by in a few days to collect your blood."

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