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Everybody knows that GGG wanted to fight Jacobs in December, he already had an HBO date, but Team Jacobs insisted on delaying the fight and claimed
Then much much later, Jacobs finally signed to fight GGG to fight in March but he didnt yet sign his VADA papers! Middle of January, Jacobs was already training hard and Jacobs still was not enrolled to VADA, while GGG has been enrolled for the Clean boxing program since the Lemieux, which means 24/7 testing.
Jacobs eventually signed his papers 6 weeks prior to the fight which is not remotely enough time to properly test a fighter. Jacobs who trained with PED Guru Victor Conte migh thave used all kinds of Performance Enhancing Drugs in his training camp until late January before "cycling off" and still get huge benefits leading into the fight with GGG.
Andre Ward is doing something similar. The contract has a rematch clause which had an intended 4 months period of VADA testing, which would be ideal for efficient testing, the fight is supposed to happen on June 17th, that is less than 3 months away.
It seems quite obvious that Ward is trying to stall the rematch as long as possible, same as Danny Jacobs, to delay VADA Testing and is doing some shady stuff. Again, Vada testing will be inefficient when a fighter like Ward can control when actual testing starts.
Ward and Jacobs are following the blueprint of Floyd Mayweather who started to announce his last couple fights at a surprising late date to delay drug testing.
"December is too soon, we needed at least 10-12 weeks to prepare Jacobs for the GGG fight"
Then much much later, Jacobs finally signed to fight GGG to fight in March but he didnt yet sign his VADA papers! Middle of January, Jacobs was already training hard and Jacobs still was not enrolled to VADA, while GGG has been enrolled for the Clean boxing program since the Lemieux, which means 24/7 testing.
Jacobs eventually signed his papers 6 weeks prior to the fight which is not remotely enough time to properly test a fighter. Jacobs who trained with PED Guru Victor Conte migh thave used all kinds of Performance Enhancing Drugs in his training camp until late January before "cycling off" and still get huge benefits leading into the fight with GGG.
Andre Ward is doing something similar. The contract has a rematch clause which had an intended 4 months period of VADA testing, which would be ideal for efficient testing, the fight is supposed to happen on June 17th, that is less than 3 months away.
It seems quite obvious that Ward is trying to stall the rematch as long as possible, same as Danny Jacobs, to delay VADA Testing and is doing some shady stuff. Again, Vada testing will be inefficient when a fighter like Ward can control when actual testing starts.
Ward and Jacobs are following the blueprint of Floyd Mayweather who started to announce his last couple fights at a surprising late date to delay drug testing.
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