Comments Thread For: Luis Ortiz Fails Drug Test, Deontay Wilder Fight in Doubt

[MaksBox]

How abut they replace Ortiz with Povetkin?!?!!?!?

[BWC]

What a joke this sport can be. Come on old man Ortiz, blood pressure meds??

[login]

so is he supposed to not take his medications?

I find it hard to believe that a world class athlete would suffer from high blood pressure so badly that it needs to be medicated.

[keith_head]

Angiotensin II & Losartan are NOT on the VADA list of banned substances...HCLZ/Hydrochlorothiazide is. It's just the portion of the drug that contains the diuretic HCLZ that is the issue because it has been used by boxers to make weight by pissing water. HW's don't have to make weight...so it's not even a legit issue.

http://vada-testing.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/VADA_Prohibited_List_2017v1.pdf

This needs to go away. HCLZ is NOT an advantage/enhancement for a heavyweight.

Lol this is so naive. All diuretics are masking agents, and even if they weren't, artificially lowering blood pressure to make it easier on the heart to pump blood can still be considered performance-enhancing.

If you so old that you need to be taking BP medication you shouldn't be in competitive sports. Fine, take it for your health, but you're no longer eligible to compete - same with someone on TRT.

Even aside from that there were more than enough opportunities to get a TUE and you'd think they would have that sorted before the biggest fight of his career. Nope, this is all on him.

[GGG Gloveking]

Man, fuçk Ortiz. Get him and the rest of the Pedheads out of boxing. Go fight poverkin in russia

[champion4ever]

This dimwit; When will he ever learn? Just make the Wilder/Joshua fight already after the Joshua/Pulev bout.

These guys must be very afraid of Deontay. This marks about the third or fourth time an opponent attempted to juice up for him.

Now AJ needs to sign up for the VADA testing program if he ever plans on unifying with Wilder. It's mandatory by the WBC.

[MaksBox]

This dimwit; When will he ever learn? Just make the Wilder/Joshua fight already after the Joshua/Pulev bout.

These guys must be very afraid of Deontay. This marks about the third or fourth time an opponent attempted to juice up for him.

Now AJ needs to sign up for the VADA testing program if he ever plans on unifying with Wilder. It's mandatory by the WBC.

Now watch if very soon we hear the AJ/Pulev fight is canceled after Pulev is either injured or fails drug test.

[Bronx2245]

Seriously? BP meds made you pop on a piss test? C'mon Son!

[techliam]

This dimwit; When will he ever learn? Just make the Wilder/Joshua fight already after the Joshua/Pulev bout.

These guys must be very afraid of Deontay. This marks about the third or fourth time an opponent attempted to juice up for him.

Now AJ needs to sign up for the VADA testing program if he ever plans on unifying with Wilder. It's mandatory by the WBC.

and the WBA...

[techliam]

Starting to feel bad for Wilder

He desperately needs a legit name on his resume, but can't get one