So......Hughie Fury isn't licensed by the BBBofC

[Robbie Barrett]

The hearing into the allegations of steroid abuse against Tyson and Hughie is scheduled for next month. A panel of legal and medical experts will examine the UKAD test results and they will decide whether Hughie and Tyson failed the tests, not some ignorant ****heads at a boxing forum.

The did fail the tests, that's a fact. The question is why did they have steroids in their bodies.

[keith_head]

The did fail the tests, that's a fact. The question is why did they have steroids in their bodies.

Really a positive test like this is very, very accurate but it all depends on what their lawyers argue.

IIRC they've already tried the "it was in our steak" argument...which should become an instant 5 year ban if you even invoke that bull**** IMO but whatever.

[kafkod]

The did fail the tests, that's a fact. The question is why did they have steroids in their bodies.

It's more complicated than that mate. This is not like Povetkin with his Meldonium, which could only have got into his body if he took it.

Nandrolone can be produced naturally, within the body, as a reaction to contaminants known to be found in beef and protien supplements. That is exactly what Tyson Fury claimed he was told by UKAD when he was advised that a trace of nandrolone had been detected in one of his urine samples but no action would be taken over it and he could consider his test result as a pass.

There is a difference between a flagged test result and a failed test. Eg, athletes don't fail a test just for having an usually high testosterone level, or T/epi-T ratio. They only fail the test if it's decided the unusual result was caused by testosterone supplements or a masking agent.

[kafkod]

Really a positive test like this is very, very accurate but it all depends on what their lawyers argue.

IIRC they've already tried the "it was in our steak" argument...which should become an instant 5 year ban if you even invoke that bull**** IMO but whatever.

Based on what I know about this, the Fury's only brought lawers into it after they had their licences suspended in July last year, 15 months after the test results were analysed.

So why did UKAD class test results as "passed" when they were first taken, then change their minds and decide they were "fails" 15 months later?

Another way of looking at it .. if Tyson Fury failed a PED test while training for his title fight with Wlad, why was the fight allowed to go ahead without anybody being told about it?