Is AJ too big to get busted for steroids?

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

I'm not saying he's on steroids or anything like that, I'm talking hypothetically. For what it's worth, my view is that the majority of top boxers are probably cheating in some way.

There's a story in the UK news today that UKAD are backing off from taking action against Tyson Fury because they're funded for about £8 million a year. If they banned Fury and he were to win a legal case for loss of earnings, people are talking about £5 million per fight, so likely more than a year's funding for UKAD.

Joshua can now fill a stadium and sell hundreds of thousands of PPVs against whoever he wants. It's speculated that he's earned something like £25 million in 2017 from his two fights. If lawyers for Joshua could punch a hole in anything UKAD do against him, that's financial ruin.

It's a bad situation for a sport to be in where anti-doping authorities could be intimidated by athletes.

[sunny31]

I'm not saying he's on steroids or anything like that, I'm talking hypothetically. For what it's worth, my view is that the majority of top boxers are probably cheating in some way.

There's a story in the UK news today that UKAD are backing off from taking action against Tyson Fury because they're funded for about £8 million a year. If they banned Fury and he were to win a legal case for loss of earnings, people are talking about £5 million per fight, so likely more than a year's funding for UKAD.

Joshua can now fill a stadium and sell hundreds of thousands of PPVs against whoever he wants. It's speculated that he's earned something like £25 million in 2017 from his two fights. If lawyers for Joshua could punch a hole in anything UKAD do against him, that's financial ruin.

It's a bad situation for a sport to be in where anti-doping authorities could be intimidated by athletes.

If Lance Armstrong can get busted anyone can. Ok with Lance it took a long time for precisely the reasons you mention, political, financial power, but they got him in the end and I think if you dope long enough in most professional/amateur sports, nowadays you have a high chance of a positive test at some point, especially now random testing is becoming more prevalent.

In the case with Armstrong - he had the whole sport by the balls, he literally bullied clean cyclist out of the sport, he had dirty tests manipulated, he was a monster in every sense of the word. It just needed someone with their moral compass in the right place and a huge set of balls to take him down, and that person was Travis Tygart.

[Boxing42]

Not exactly because there's always someone with "good intentions " working in doping or someone who wants to blackmail you, big athletes have gotten busted before but a lot of people do go under the radar

[kafkod]

I'm not saying he's on steroids or anything like that, I'm talking hypothetically. For what it's worth, my view is that the majority of top boxers are probably cheating in some way.

There's a story in the UK news today that UKAD are backing off from taking action against Tyson Fury because they're funded for about £8 million a year. If they banned Fury and he were to win a legal case for loss of earnings, people are talking about £5 million per fight, so likely more than a year's funding for UKAD.

Joshua can now fill a stadium and sell hundreds of thousands of PPVs against whoever he wants. It's speculated that he's earned something like £25 million in 2017 from his two fights. If lawyers for Joshua could punch a hole in anything UKAD do against him, that's financial ruin.

It's a bad situation for a sport to be in where anti-doping authorities could be intimidated by athletes.

If UKAD had a legit case against the Fury's they wouldn't need to worry about being sued. Same thing goes for any accusation they might make against AJ in the future. As long as they stick to the WADA guidelines and do everything by the book, UKAD should be watertight.

The problem with athletes possibly being too big to be busted is not that they might sue if they get banned, but that they generate huge amounts of money, both for themselves and the sports they compete in, and where there's big money there's always the possibility of bribery and corruption.

[kafkod]

If Lance Armstrong can get busted anyone can. Ok with Lance it took a long time for precisely the reasons you mention, political, financial power, but they got him in the end and I think if you dope long enough in most professional/amateur sports, nowadays you have a high chance of a positive test at some point, especially now random testing is becoming more prevalent.

In the case with Armstrong - he had the whole sport by the balls, he literally bullied clean cyclist out of the sport, he had dirty tests manipulated, he was a monster in every sense of the word. It just needed someone with their moral compass in the right place and a huge set of balls to take him down, and that person was Travis Tygart.

From what I heard about the Lance Armstrong case, he only got busted eventually because one of his own team grassed on him.

[Lou Cipher]

Nah he could still get pinched outside of England. Floyd had to kick up millions to get USADA to look the other way here. I doubt Joshua could afford to pay beyond what he's already paying those old geriatric pedophiliacs in the BBB

[PRINCEKOOL]

If Lance Armstrong can get busted, a White Man who was literally a american hero? Then anyone can get busted.

But in saying that Eddie Hearn & Anthony Joshua are not ****** enough to drug cheat.

[Redd Foxx]

It's an interesting idea. Hearn generates a lot of money for boxing in the UK. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if connections were made. Look at what was going on with Russia and the Olympics. This would be smaller than that for sure.

That said, I don't think that's happening. He's not clean, but he's not being given a pass.