Comments Thread For: Tyson Fury Pleads With UKAD To Render Decision on His Career

[Dr Rumack]

I don't know why there's nothing about this in the UK papers. It is absolutely insane.

[Robbie Barrett]

If i remember correctly Tyson can't fight because of his mental health excuse, not the failed test. Which is why Hughie is allowed to fight.

[Pigeons]

still for the cocaine?

no consistency in boxing, just all over the place, you might get a year off for asthma medication, 5 minutes off for anabolic steroids, 538.41 days for coke

Entering the scheduled rematch, there were many questions about possible performance-enhancing drug use hanging over Fury, although not in regards to the fight last year against Klitschko. In a UKADA drug test, Fury tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone in an earlier fight, even though, for reasons still unclear, the results did not come to light until June, well after he had beaten Klitschko.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...enzoylecgonine

[kafkod]

In theory, could he not still fight outside Britain if it's just a UKAD ban?

if he was serious he would have been training already.. is he not allowed to fight in america or any other country?

UKAD haven't banned Fury. They can't do that unless an independant panel of experts looks at the evidence and decides that a doping offence has been committed, which hasn't happened.

Fury had his licence revoked because he was ruled unfit to compete for mental health reasons and because he admitted to using coke. That then became bound in with another UKAD charge .. he refused to take a UKAD test last year because he said he didn't trust them not to stitch him up again. And refusing to take a test counts as a failed test.

So far as I understand it, Fury is using his mental health issues as a defence against the charge of refusing to take another UKAD PED test, and that will be ruled on at the same time, and by the same tribunal, as as the original nandrolone abuse charge, which Hughie Fury is also charged with.

I guess he could move abroad and get a licence in another country, because UKAD and the BBBoC only have jurisdiction in the UK.

Tony Thompson didn't lose his US licence after being banned for 2 years by UKAD and was able to fight anywhere except in the UK.

[Cinci Champ]

if he was serious he would have been training already.. is he not allowed to fight in america or any other country?

he is training

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http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...enzoylecgonine

ah ok didnt know about that

[ashadam]

His mental health, or lack of it, is more to blame for him not fighting.

However, this should have been wrapped up months ago. Incompetence and needless bureaucracy no doubt.

Nothing wrong with him they made that up after getting caught taking drugs again.

[kafkod]

When was Hughie Fury's UKAD hearing held? He was charged with the same doping offense as Tyson. I never saw any reports regarding the completion of his hearing or the result that was rendered. Was Hughie's hearing ever held, and if not, is he being allowed to fight for a title on Saturday with a pending drug trial still looming?

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...enzoylecgonine

Hughie's hearing was due to be heard at the same time as Tyson's, and was postponed for the same reason.

He is able to fight now because a court judge ordered UKAD to lift their provisional ban on him and Tyson last year, and Hughie didn't then go on to get himself banned for something else, like Tyson did.

2 comments on the info you posted .. Fury did have a sample flagged while training for his first fight with Wlad, but it didn't "only come to light" after the fight had happened. UKAD knew all about it at the time, but only decided that it merited a charge of nandrolone abuse 15 months later.

Fury was popped for cocaine by VADA, not UKAD, so that won't figure in the UKAD hearing he's talking about. What will happen there is ... IF he gets his licence back VADA will have to decide whether his use of coke was recreational or designed to give him an edge in the fight, then decide whether to charge him with PED abuse or not.

[HanzGruber]

he is training

He trained for like a week and ran. Then went to say he retired again. The guy isn't coming back

[kafkod]

Nothing wrong with him they made that up after getting caught taking drugs again.

Nope .. Fury admitted taking coke and hasn't tested positive for anything else. He is using a mental health problem as a defence for telling the UKAD testers to fuck off when they came round and tried to test him again after accusing him of taking Nandrolone back in 2015.