When did Drug Testing start in Boxing ?

70s Steroids abuse was noted and caused the first paper to be written condemning it.
In the 90s Lennox signed a “non tested” fight contract, something like that @cross_trainer said it I’d say it (testing) only really became an inconvenience by the 2000s.
The earliest confirmed user I can think of is Bob Hazelton.

 

Everything before the 90s wouldn’t have had any effective testing IMO.
The LATE 50s or the 60s after the Rome Olympics is when PED use started in athletics to my knowledge.

 

Let me add something to what I said, this is me basing it off what I know about the American PED scene.
The Russian weightlifters inspired the first Test and Dbol usage to my knowledge.
America still lost the weightlifting contest in Rome but the findings I believe kicked off usage everywhere.
It’s possible Russia has been using steroids longer at the least before Rome so 52 is a possible date IMO.

 

I’m aware of the invention of TEST it was 1934-1935 from memory but they didn’t use it for athletic advantage till a bit later.

 

Better question it when it stopped, seriously how do some of these people get approved??? Tangent ik, but seemed like a good opportunity.

 

Approved to fight.

 

Its jst a joke… although it is honestly incredible how some people get away with roids so obviously.

 

I read the PDF part where Yugoslavia is mentioned.
Let me tell you, the whole "Warsaw Pact" used steroids to the maximum, I think. Bulgarian weightlifters and Romanian gymnasts are part of those stories.
Worse things than anabolic steroids have been used.
The girl gymnasts were given means to start getting menstrual cycles later (and these are certainly not anabolic steroids).
But I don't understand (and it's not my intention to "defend my own") where Yugoslavia in the 30s fits in there.
Which Yugoslav athlete in the 1930s was so successful?

 

Drug testing in Boxing didn't actually become seriously 'consistent' until the early - mid 2000's, though it obviously existed and was used beforehand.

The unpopular implication of this is that many Classic favourites from the 80s to the late 90s were likely on PEDs. Jones Jr is one who was legitimately caught out and had basically no consequences whatsoever.