Why no more USADA testing since Mayweather retired?

[GhostofDempsey]

What happened? Now it seems it’s only VADA?

[Vodkaholic]

Lmao we all know why.
Hard work! Medication!

[Robbie Barrett]

Because USADA costs more money. Fighters prefer the inferior VADA that missed Whyte's positives.

[Phenom]

It's very expensive compared to VADA

[GhostofDempsey]

So money takes precedence over safety now? We all know VADA is superior. Odd how USADA is no longer in the picture now that Floyd is “retired”.

[Phenom]

When Floyd started random testing in all his fights VADA did not exist

VADA was created as cheaper alternative for people that don't have Floyd Mayweather money

[turnedup]

Tim Bradley explained why he doesn’t fk with USada in 2013 “did you know USada allows up to 4% use of an illegal substance” Bradley told fight hype. Video is on YouTube and it was also USada that somehow lost the quillin samples for his winky Wright fight which there are a ton of quotes from wright about how shady they are. Can any testing protocol be cheated? Sure. But USada deals with the promoters first and VADA with the commissions from what I understand.

[Spoon23]

USADA doesn't get big dogs caught. They collaborate. That's why.

[pasawayako]

Because USADA is the most corrupt organization and floyd is the only one can only pay them and they allowed floyd to use every peds in the world..

[TonyGe]

What happened? Now it seems it’s only VADA?

It's VADA because USADA is corrupt and lost their credibility. Their urine testing is substandard and they rarely catch anyone.

Here is a quote from an article by Thomas Hauser..


A simple comparison will suffice. As of Aug. 1, 2015, VADA had conducted drug testing for 18 professional fights. Three of the fighters tested by VADA (Andre Berto, former IBF-WBA 140-pound champion Lamont Peterson, and former 135-pound WBA titleholder Brandon Rios) tested positive for a banned substance.

Contrast that with USADA. Annie Skinner says that Mayweather-Berto will be the 46th fight for which USADA has conducted drug testing. In an Aug. 14, email she acknowledges, “At this time, the only professional boxer under USADA’s program who has been found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation is Erik Morales.”

One can speculate that, had Halestorm Sports not broken the Morales story, USADA might not have “found” that Morales committed an anti-doping violation either.

It's a long article but here is a link.

https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2015/9/9/9271811/can-boxing-trust-usada