When did Drug Testing start in Boxing ?

I really doubt it stopped or even decreased in the late 90s.

 

Late 90s. Tommy Morrison admitted he and most of his competition were roiding like crazy with no tests throughout most of the 90s.

Also drug testing has till today never fully caught up with all forms of PED, it's always a race and the drugs are always ahead of the tests. It's still hard if not near impossible to fully detect HGH use.

 

Was it steroids they were testing for in the 70s or amphetamine/recreational drug testing?

I know baseball was testing for amphetamines since the 70s but they notoriously didn't implement PED testing until the 2000s. In the 80s they were testing athletes for cocaine.

Steroids weren't even officially illegal in the US until the late 80s.

 

I don’t think MLB tested for amphetamines until the 00s along with steroids.

They became illegal in the 70s, but nobody gave a ****. MLB teams would have jars of speed for the players and it was called “playing naked” if you didn’t take your amphetamines.

When they started testing for it, they allowed exemptions for adderall and Ritalin for people with ADHD. So a lot of players would try to get to diagnosed with ADHD so they could take it.

 

You're right. The MLB banned their use in the 70s but testing was lax until the 2000s. In my belief the reason leagues started testing for things like amphetamines and coke in the first place, was less to do with competition fairness but fear one of the athletes would just up and die on the field or the ring and that would create terrible PR for the business.

The NBA had its issue when top draft pick Len Bias OD'd on coke a day after he was drafted.