Povetkin seems to have lost lawsuit to Wilder

It's a shame that Pov is a cheat. He's fun to watch.

 

Its fun that Pov is a cheat. Hes a shame to watch.

 

Actually Flamizide has a point. The manufacturer was contacted prior to this saga and they said that traces would remain in the body and did not know for how long. I think the manufacturer was Grintek (or something similar) and the drug is sold as mildronat in the East.

 

This argument was hashed out in long and painful detail when it happened. The precis:

1) The amount detected was vanishingly small. I'm surprised and impressed that tests managed to pick anything at all
2) It was well within WADA limits
3) There was a plausible mechanism postulated whereby meldonium is stored in trace amounts in fat cells and released when they break down. Hence the strange results. But nobody really knows, including VADA and the manufacturer of mildronat.
4) Legal cases turn on strange technicalities sometimes. Unless you have the actual judgement in hand, it's difficult to determine exactly what the jury found against.
5) The Ostarine red flag later on shouldn't have had an impact on the judgement.
6) The Ostarine red flag shows that Povetkin is a dumbass and couldn't leave well enough alone. A real pity because I like how Povetkin fights and was supporting him to blast Wilder out of the water. Now it looks as though his career is royally shafted.

 

It's hard to say.

I mean, he admitted to taking Meldonium for a long time, it's been legal and around since the 1970's. PEDs don't make you more skilful or give you a heart to fight. I'm sad to entertain the possibility, but Povetkin seems like one of those guys that maybe doesn't like to train as hard as he should and has been looking for "alternative" training methods.

I dump on Wilder all the time, but at least he's doing what he's doing without "vitamins". That's gotta be worth some respect.

 

Time for Alex to move on and so should we.


Next up for Pov, - a GBH charge from Duhapas for using a PED to punch him out.

 

I've heard of guys being ahead of their time. Povetkin's the exact opposite. He's a throwback, all right.

Dude would've been right at home 25 years ago when boxing wasn't even bothering to make PED's illegal, let alone test for them.

Now, people are still using, but at least they go through the motions of testing so they can say they're clean. The tests are not hard to beat, but Povetkin can't even get that done right.

 

The judgement award has been announced as $5M to Wilder to be collected from the cheating promoter and boxer.
The award may be modified in the appeal, but odds are that it will not be changed as I expect the cheaters will lose the appeal.