Povetkin tested dirty again

[DaveDave]

But it should be legal. The tests are a joke and some high profile fighters are obviously on PEDs and they pass tests. The best tests there are (the new WBC AVDA testing, UFC SUADA testing and Olympic testing for cycling) manage to probably limit the amount and the kind of PEDs athletes can take so in that sense thy succeed but they surely don't prevent PEDs

The quality of your PED is exactly proportional to the amount of money thrown at it.

Boxing is already fucking gimped by giving the star fighter advantages with the reffing (look at the beating a losing British prospect is allowed to take before a stoppage is rendered against them, compared to the amount of damage a visitor has to take), the judging (e.g.... like, every weekend), & the weight (most prospects feast on much smaller guys, to provide footage for the highlight reel).

I am not comfortable with giving the "B" side of the bill an even bigger disadvantage, in that their drugs will be coming from online Zimbabwean pharmacies & will mostly be caffeine pills & aspirin, whilst the "A" side of the bill will logically—with the removal of the limits currently imposed by the current, admittedly inadequate testing regimes—be on NASA-grade shit that turns you into a raging Hulkzilla, capable of breaking cars across one's torso & shitting sparks.

For your idea to work, boxing would need to be a reasonably level playing field in the first place, rather than the laughably diseased, corrupt & mad weasel-bastard bastion of outlaw dog-eat-dog capitalism that it is.

Here on Earth One, it's a fucking stupid proposition. Sorry. You might as well ask "Well, why bother with weight divisions if certain fighters can get away with gaming them?"

The answer—if you care about the sporting aspect at all—is not to throw up one's hands & abolish weight divisions just 'cos some connected guys game the weight, but actually enforce standards so that people can't get away with it.

& here in Britain at least, that won't happen until someone busts positive after inflicting some horrific life-changing injury on their opponent.

 

[PivotPunch]

The quality of your PED is exactly proportional to the amount of money thrown at it.

Boxing is already fucking gimped by giving the star fighter advantages with the reffing (look at the beating a losing British prospect is allowed to take before a stoppage is rendered against them, compared to the amount of damage a visitor has to take), the judging (e.g.... like, every weekend), & the weight (most prospects feast on much smaller guys, to provide footage for the highlight reel).

I am not comfortable with giving the "B" side of the bill an even bigger disadvantage, in that their drugs will be coming from online Zimbabwean pharmacies & will mostly be caffeine pills & aspirin, whilst the "A" side of the bill will logically—with the removal of the limits currently imposed by the current, admittedly inadequate testing regimes—be on NASA-grade shit that turns you into a raging Hulkzilla, capable of breaking cars across one's torso & shitting sparks.

For your idea to work, boxing would need to be a reasonably level playing field in the first place, rather than the laughably diseased, corrupt & mad weasel-bastard bastion of outlaw dog-eat-dog capitalism that it is.

Here on Earth One, it's a fucking stupid proposition. Sorry. You might as well ask "Well, why bother with weight divisions if certain fighters can get away with gaming them?"

The answer—if you care about the sporting aspect at all—is not to throw up one's hands & abolish weight divisions just 'cos some connected guys game the weight, but actually enforce standards so that people can't get away with it.

& here in Britain at least, that won't happen until someone busts positive after inflicting some horrific life-changing injury on their opponent.

With testing it isn't a level playing field. Anyone willing to pay can get semi decent PEDs but not anyone can get designer PEDs and an advisor a la Angel Heredia to beat random drug testing. It is an even more unlevel playing field if you introduce drug testing and the ones who benefit the most aren#t the clean athletes but the doping athletes who have Victor Conte and Angel hereida in their team

 

[Italian Brock]

Since when is Ostarine a steroid? Isn't it some sarm or something? What's next ? Testing dirty for protein supplements

 

[Sunfish]

Wikipedia skillz, I had them.

"Selective androgen receptor modulators may be used by athletes to assist in training and increase physical stamina and fitness, potentially producing effects similar to anabolic steroids. For this reason, SARMs were banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in January 2008 despite no drugs from this class yet being in clinical use,"

 

[senri]

For Ostarine FFS, like they wouldn't test for that. What a fucking toolbox.

He thought he could get away with it being a SARM, it's not as potent as the conventional AAS however doping agents were aware of it since 09 and created testing procedures for it.

 

[Sunfish]

I know wada have a list of medication you can't take, and their representative who did a programme about doping said you type them in turn red if banned. So yeah, he was trying to sneak taking it.

 

[PHATV]

I heard Wilder heard about it before the news broke and jumped on the first plane out of town. Even though he was in a different town. Better safe than sorry, I guess.