Botha tests positive for banned substance

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/beaten-botha-tests-positive-to-drugs-20130210-2e6f2.html

FRANCOIS Botha, the former heavweight world champion beaten by Sonny Bill Williams on Friday night, has tested positive to a banned substance.
Botha, whose claims that he did not know the WBA international heavyweight bout would only last 10 rounds have also now been discredited, failed a drugs test on the eve of the fight.

Results of a urine sample submitted by the 44-year-old South African in Brisbane last Tuesday under WBA regulations show he had Phentermine - a banned stimulant - in his system.

The drugs test, which has now been forwarded to the WBA's global headquarters in Panama, also detected Benzodiazepine, which suggested Botha was also using a valium-type product.

Leading sports doctor Peter Larkin said the two substances had an opposite effect.

"One puts you to sleep, one keeps you awake," Larkin told Fairfax Media. "Phentermine is part of the go-fast group, as I call them, which is similar category to all of the adrenalin amphetamines...anything that is a stimulant that keeps you awake and improves your reflexes."
According to witnesses who saw Botha in his dressing room before the fight, he was extremely relaxed and was lying on the floor as Williams entered the ring first

However, once the fight got under way, he was alert and continually taunted Williams, while trying to put him off his game with a series of late shots after the bell to end each round or when the referee had seperated the pair.

 

How the fck Benzodiazepine and Phentermine can help improve sports performance is beyond me.

 

I think the story is bullsht.. why use a muscle relaxant when there is way better sht out there that he has used before. Valium dont help you win a boxing fight lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_Botha

I think nandrolone is the same sht Tarver tested positive for.

 

Could be possible he took the valium to help him sleep. Its a perscribed drug so if he has been perscribed valium he may get off. The other drug in his system is a weight loss drug, its used to supress ones apetite.

 

yeah apparently valium is now a peformance enchancing drug lol .. if botha wanted to cheat he would have used the same sht he has used before, the same sht tarver got busted for. imho its a smoke screen created by Khoder.

 

I think the same Francis...

I rekon Botha took the valium to loosen up his O ring so Khoder could slip it in :hey .. on that note im off to take some valium and spar for 10 rounds. :good