Matchroom and the use of Therapeutic Use Exemptions for performance enhancing drugs

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  1. Potato80

    Potato80 A potato Full Member

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    Connor Benn has tested positive for a banned substance (Clomifene).

    In his most recent interview with IFL Eddie Hearn noted that you can get a Therapeutic Use Exemption certificate (TUE) for Clomifene.

    Does anyone on this forum know any info about the use of TUE's for otherwise banned substances, within the world of boxing?

    There were rumours a few years ago that AJ had TUEs for banned substances. I'll dig out some info and add it into this thread, but I wanted to initially cast the net wide to see if anyone knows owt.
     
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  2. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Eddie knows all about TUE's

    Ask Dillian Whyte

    AJ is TUE'd up the wazoo

    These guys have had plenty of failed tests swept under the rug

    The sport is corrupt EVERY SINGLE BODY is corrupt. Athletes, testers, media, promoters, judges DOCTORS. YOU NAME IT

    Mayweather takes IV bags in his hotel room and injects his hands
    AJ breaks all the testing machines because he's so roided up
    Whyte has Eddie legally defend his failed tests so he can fight
    Fury eats a hedgehog and boar meat and they sit on a failed sample for nearly 2 years because they want to make a buck off him

    One day someone will leak the dirt from these testing agencies who are just as corrupt as anyone else.
     
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  3. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    Fury now Benn. Cheater, cheater boar eater. LOL
     
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  4. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    I'm not sure why they agree to VADA voluntary testing. They always seem to go that extra step and find anything to pin on these fighters.
     
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  5. lordlosh

    lordlosh Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    AJ never failed a drug test to date.
     
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  6. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Can't fail a ped test if your readings are off the charts.
     
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  7. Mickc

    Mickc Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No doubt there will be many more juicing,there are more steroids than there are tests for,that’s why they hold onto the samples for so long. Why would there even be a TUE in place for something like Clomifene (smh) and no surprises that Hearn knew all about it .
     
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    lordlosh Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Yeah im not stupid bro, he for sure is on the grill. I was never being b. c. fanboy, neither for a fighter i like or not.
    But poping is just terrible, aka when it comes to light.
     
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  9. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Floyd Mayweather was retroactively issued a TUE by his privately contracted testing agency for illegal IV fluids long after the Pacquiao fight.
     
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  10. Potato80

    Potato80 A potato Full Member

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    That's not the issue. He won't technically "fail" if he's been granted an exemption for the use of testosterone and other performance enhancing drugs. Getting these exemptions is the issue.

    He's the most muscle-bound athlete on the planet, and he may have been given a pass to take PEDs because of a spurious (?paid for) dodgy medical certificate
     
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  11. BaronSamedi

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    Therpeutic use of hormones? A tue is to bring hormones to a natural level

    Why would a 25 year old in peak athletic condition need his hormones to be brought to a natural level?

    His hormones are fine, he's just a cheating juicer
     
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  12. Potato80

    Potato80 A potato Full Member

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    You can get TUEs for the use of any banned substance, including those with direct performance enhancing qualities and those who's effects mask use of steroids.
     
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  13. BaronSamedi

    BaronSamedi Active Member Full Member

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    Wtf haha are you sure?

    How can you get a Tue for any banned substance? That doesn't make sense
     
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    Serena Williams whole career is based around TUE's.
     
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  15. Potato80

    Potato80 A potato Full Member

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    You can get TUEs for steroids and a plethora of other banned things. There's no debate about this.

    The question is who has them and why. Especially in boxing where you are more likely to physically injure the other person by using them. AJ being allowed steroids or similar would rightly be a scandal.

    This isn't Lionel Messi or Bradley Wiggins or Serena Williams. He was the heavyweight champion of the world
     
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