The Smith brothers on Beterbiev's "atypical" test

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  1. AdamT

    AdamT Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Exactly
     
  2. Mickea4

    Mickea4 Active Member Full Member

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    I find the notion that all fighters are juicing to be laughable, as there would be far more failed tests if this was the case, idc what people say about good pharmacists and masking etc etc , but every single top level athlete is taking things that COULD be classed as juicing - the distinction between an allowed substance and a banned one is so arbitrary, you've got obvious things like HGH that definitely should be banned, but remember the thing Povetkin popped for in 2016/17? Until a few months before that, it was perfectly fine to take so you'd assume most top level boxers were taking it. So having that in your system was called juicing, where very shortly before every S&C coach/pharmacist/nutritionist would be recommending it.
    Every top level athlete is taking things that regular gym goers or lay people do not take so in that sense they are chemically enhanced - it's only an issue when those chemicals become arbitrarily banned
     
  3. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nope, we go by who gets caught and Canelo is on record period. Canelo's fans always like to go to the record books as proof of who won the fights. Time to go to the record books on who cheated. I personally don't have any reason to think GGG ever took steroids or PED'S, although he did look more muscular later in his career, but that was being trained by weight training freaks.
     
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  4. box33

    box33 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Great rational when your big time favorite gets too many red flags & cant no longer hide his cheating when it's obvious by his outing then we turn it all around by calling everyone else a cheater too, this way it takes away the attention to his wrong doing & by bunching all other fighters together he then doesn't appear to be so bad now & his "Skills" are still appreciated hahaha

    Win win for your kind or so you think but No.
     
  5. box33

    box33 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    We thought alike here & what you spoke about there was just your usual fanboy hater logic, it's their get out of Jail card for when the consensus changes & realize that their favorite fighter is the actual cheater.
     
  6. Mickc

    Mickc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Beterbiev has been tested 25 times by VADA since 2020
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  7. Faz42

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    All that's says is that neither fighter is tested enough.

    25 times in 4 years with 4 of them in the last month is poor. Callum with 10 in 4 years is an absolute joke but how many times has he been tested in that period by ukad?
     
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  8. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    Though power was the last thing to go
     
  9. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing

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    But the russians have a deep history with it. Doesn´t prove anything, but it is a well known fact. Didn´t Russians get banned on olympics or something ? (I don´t follow the olympics)
     
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  10. fenoc1

    fenoc1 Active Member Full Member

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    No way the Smith bros are juicing
     
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  11. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    because contractually he hasn’t failed a test.