Comments Thread For: Golovkin: Joshua Was Terrible; Had Different Doping Tests In U.S.

[Mindgames]

Something i’ve always said about UKAD is something i still believe. The entire budget for a year for UKAD is £4m, that’s to operate the whole business, paying staff etc.. it’s not a lot of money, which means nobody there is making millions...

Given how corrupt boxing is, do you not think it would be very easy to grease a few palms there to make dirty tests disappear? If you’ve got enough money to do it and have a fighter generating tens of millions, What’s a 6 figure payoff to promoters/networks? Not much, but it’s a lot of people making a fairly modest salary...

Of course, im speculating, but this is a corrupt sport. I think someone would have to be very naive to think dirty tests don’t disappear because people get paid off.

Yeah, i think it makes sense, because it is a business first and a sport second after all. AJ was and is an industry in himself. I dont know what kind of tests were in place against Povetkin, but AJ looked different physically to me there too. Maybe they were more stringent in this recent fight because they knew how juiced up Miller was and saw him as a threat. I dont know, but i genuinely believe they all at least on occasion cheat using something. I expect it goes back even to Mike Tyson, after all, he admitted drug use around fights in hes book, and hes defence in the **** case made metion of steroids. Whyte has muscled up abit, hes training at Loughborough now with experts on strength and stamina. I expect they make drug test failures go away, or when someone is annoying too many people, like Fury, they expose them to put them back in their place. The top UFC guys are still getting caught and let off, why not boxing.

[turnedup]

At least AJ took his loss like a man instead of Lil G who ran out of the ring looking like a walking dead zombie and forgetting to speak English.

Get over it, at best you can argue he lost that the second fight by razor-thin margins and was frustrated with the judging unlike Joshua who said "I'm taking a time machine and going back when Plankin' was still cool"

[Beercules]

Gangsta

[champion4ever]

I believe that what a lot of Gennady is saying is true and he may be onto something here. UKAD and BBBoC is not as stringent as VADA; They are more lenient.

I might be wrong but I do not believe their testing protocol is done randomly or pre-fight either; If it is then maybe AJ was able to manipulate those tests in the U.K but wasn't allowed to in the U.S. Because he was under a new testing protocol.

What I find the most ironic is that VADA is not even mandatory unless you are ranked among the top 15 fighters in the WBC'. He could have easily circumvented that testing agency altogether but it would have raised a lot of red flags among the haters and naysayers.

[nacho daddy]

Nothing to do with drugs ... Joshua gets tested all year round

Ukad have caught loads of fighters doping . The two fury’s ect

I think it had more to do with being punched over and over in the temple and high on the head . That will send anyone west

it amazes me people like you are so dumb. lance Armstrong the most tested guy in history beat the tests (which do not want to catch people) FOR 15 YEARS. only when they could not make any more money off him then it came out he was juiced like all the other bikers

[Straightener]

it amazes me people like you are so dumb. lance Armstrong the most tested guy in history beat the tests (which do not want to catch people) FOR 15 YEARS. only when they could not make any more money off him then it came out he was juiced like all the other bikers

Yeh but accusing a guy of cheating because he got knocked out is poor form.

He took to many punches to the head .... it happens

[JuniorTorres720]

Yeah, I need GGG to elaborate on what he meant. Because I'm not convinced he was throwing shade at AJ but may have been talking about the actual drug testing procedures that are employed throughout camp. Who knows? But as far as AJ's future goes, I don't think he's done. People need to ease up and watch his next fight. See where he's at mentally. It's not always about the loss, but how you come back from adversity and suffering a loss. That's what will define AJ.

[j0zef]

****** statement. There was nothing wrong with Joshua's power or conditioning. He couldn't keep his arms up for some reason and tried to block punches with his face.

[Califire209]

Joshua wasn't allowed to use Billy Joe Saunders inhalant.. this seems to definitely be the case, probably why AJ was reluctant to Fight on US soil since day 1!

[Shadoww702]

At least AJ took his loss like a man instead of Lil G who ran out of the ring looking like a walking dead zombie and forgetting to speak English.

Yup! Ran out of the ring CRYING!!!