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Blood testing far from done deal in boxing
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Written by Greg Logan / Newsday
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 19:09
Shane Mosley was desperate enough for a major payday and for the chance to reclaim his soiled reputation that he agreed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s demands for Olympic-style random blood testing as a condition for their May 1 bout in Las Vegas.
The testing requirements for the bout were the same ones rejected by Manny Pacquiao when his planned bout with Mayweather fell apart.
In announcing the Mosley matchup last week, Mayweather adviser Leonard Ellerbe said his fighter is “happy to set the precedent for random blood testing in order to ensure fair and safe contests for all fighters.”
But anyone who thinks this agreement set a precedent for either Pacquiao or the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) is dead wrong. “I think (Ellerbe) was saying it sets a precedent for guys that fight Mayweather, but that’s between Mayweather and the other side in future fights,” Keith Kizer, executive director of NSAC, told Newsday. “It’s a private contractual clause.”
Asked what effect it might have on future championship bouts in Nevada, Kizer was blunt. “Nothing from our standpoint,” he said. “Whether Mayweather or Mosley or Golden Boy [Mayweather’s promoter] will have that in their fight agreements is something for them to answer. But it won’t affect the way we do things.”
In fact, Kizer has no idea who will administer the random blood tests to Mayweather and Mosley before their bout, and he added it would be viewed as “supplemental” to the Nevada commission’s own testing program for performance-enhancing drugs.
“I would want a copy, though, of each and every test result they do for a fight in Nevada,” Kizer insisted. “We’ll request a copy directly from the lab.”
Under Nevada regulations, fighters submit urine samples before and after their fight that same night. They are subject to what Kizer described as “Olympic-style” protocols. But blood testing is not part of the process.
Travis Tygant, chief executive of the US Antidoping Agency (USADA), recently called the tests administered by state boxing commissions “a joke” because of the lack of blood testing or testing for EPO, a blood oxygen enhancer.
Kizer said Nevada is comfortable with using urine testing, which is much cheaper. “We also have a much smaller budget than USADA,” Kizer said.
Besides testing on fight night, Nevada occasionally conducts out-of-competition urine testing. Kizer said Mayweather and Pacquiao were tested at the end of December, and both results were clean.
In a grand-jury testimony related to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation, Mosley admitted using “the cream” and “the clear” while preparing for his 2003 bout with Oscar de la Hoya. Mosley has maintained he didn’t know he was receiving steroids. As a result, he has been required to provide grand- jury testimony and lie-detector test results to the NSAC.
“He’s been tested here several times, as well,” Kizer said of Mosley. “We want to make sure he’s going to be clean when he fights Mayweather.”
As for Pacquiao, who has been accused by the Mayweather camp of using steroids, he will undergo normal urine testing for his March 13 bout against Joshua Clottey in Dallas. “Assuming Manny and Floyd both win, which is a big assumption, they could reach some sort of agreement for supplemental testing,” Kizer said of a potential future bout. “But that’s up to them.”
In other words, it will be back to square one if and when negotiations resume between Mayweather and Pacquiao.
Blood testing far from done deal in boxing
Sports
Written by Greg Logan / Newsday
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 19:09
Shane Mosley was desperate enough for a major payday and for the chance to reclaim his soiled reputation that he agreed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s demands for Olympic-style random blood testing as a condition for their May 1 bout in Las Vegas.
The testing requirements for the bout were the same ones rejected by Manny Pacquiao when his planned bout with Mayweather fell apart.
In announcing the Mosley matchup last week, Mayweather adviser Leonard Ellerbe said his fighter is “happy to set the precedent for random blood testing in order to ensure fair and safe contests for all fighters.”
But anyone who thinks this agreement set a precedent for either Pacquiao or the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) is dead wrong. “I think (Ellerbe) was saying it sets a precedent for guys that fight Mayweather, but that’s between Mayweather and the other side in future fights,” Keith Kizer, executive director of NSAC, told Newsday. “It’s a private contractual clause.”
Asked what effect it might have on future championship bouts in Nevada, Kizer was blunt. “Nothing from our standpoint,” he said. “Whether Mayweather or Mosley or Golden Boy [Mayweather’s promoter] will have that in their fight agreements is something for them to answer. But it won’t affect the way we do things.”
In fact, Kizer has no idea who will administer the random blood tests to Mayweather and Mosley before their bout, and he added it would be viewed as “supplemental” to the Nevada commission’s own testing program for performance-enhancing drugs.
“I would want a copy, though, of each and every test result they do for a fight in Nevada,” Kizer insisted. “We’ll request a copy directly from the lab.”
Under Nevada regulations, fighters submit urine samples before and after their fight that same night. They are subject to what Kizer described as “Olympic-style” protocols. But blood testing is not part of the process.
Travis Tygant, chief executive of the US Antidoping Agency (USADA), recently called the tests administered by state boxing commissions “a joke” because of the lack of blood testing or testing for EPO, a blood oxygen enhancer.
Kizer said Nevada is comfortable with using urine testing, which is much cheaper. “We also have a much smaller budget than USADA,” Kizer said.
Besides testing on fight night, Nevada occasionally conducts out-of-competition urine testing. Kizer said Mayweather and Pacquiao were tested at the end of December, and both results were clean.
In a grand-jury testimony related to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation, Mosley admitted using “the cream” and “the clear” while preparing for his 2003 bout with Oscar de la Hoya. Mosley has maintained he didn’t know he was receiving steroids. As a result, he has been required to provide grand- jury testimony and lie-detector test results to the NSAC.
“He’s been tested here several times, as well,” Kizer said of Mosley. “We want to make sure he’s going to be clean when he fights Mayweather.”
As for Pacquiao, who has been accused by the Mayweather camp of using steroids, he will undergo normal urine testing for his March 13 bout against Joshua Clottey in Dallas. “Assuming Manny and Floyd both win, which is a big assumption, they could reach some sort of agreement for supplemental testing,” Kizer said of a potential future bout. “But that’s up to them.”
In other words, it will be back to square one if and when negotiations resume between Mayweather and Pacquiao.
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