Hopkins wont take PED blood tests!

The way I'm reading it, Pascal wants Hopkins to take a blood test to prove he's clean, but if Hopkins does'nt accept it he wants to fight Hopkins regardless.

The way to corner someone into accepting something he does'nt want, is to propose it publicly in front of the media.
If Pascal had done this under the privacy of negotiations, Hopkins and co. then spin what went on during the negotiations any way they wish.


Seeing that Pascal will fight Hopkins with or without the blood testing, its now Hopkins that has to live with the stigma that he refused a blood test to find PED's.

The way Pascal handled it, I would'nt change a thing.

......now in the subsequent promotional press conferences when both fighters are asked about it, Pascal will simply state, "Hey, I proposed the blood testing I myself am willing to take, Hopkins refused it.
I know what conclusion I draw from that, you guys (the media) can draw your own conclusion. I'm going to bust Bernard Hopkins up regardless. If he's using cheating methods, they're not going to stop me from beating him."

Pascal has got it made during the subsequent press conferences. It is poor Hopkins who is going to have to trip over his own words as more than half the time he cant get a thought out of his brain.......and then have to live with the stigma as being a fighter that refused PED testing.:deal

 

MLB turned a blind eye for years to what was going on right under their nose. When homeruns were leaving the parks at record numbers, they knew that the players were juicing.
For a time there attendance records were being broken and so baseball sat still and let the steroid era stain the sport.
Alot of the records broken during that steroid era are now tainted. Players that would be first ballot HOF'er will never enter the Hall, and the sport of baseball has a long way to go before it can recover from the travesty to their game that they let happen.

Now boxing unfortunately does'nt have to worry about sullying what is already crap.
Boxing unlike baseball does'nt have an image to protect, everyone knows that the sport is run by nothing but corrupt individuals up and down the ladder.

When it started coming out that baseball was infested with steroid cheats, baseball quickly had to turn to begin the cleanup process.

In boxing, there is no such urgency because the sport has been knows to be corrupt for as long as anyone can remember.
Why clean up filth when everywhere you turn the filth will still be there?

Boxing does not have an image to protect, which is why they wont follow baseballs lead and adopt more modernized methods to test for PED's.

Its a pity for those fighters that train clean.

Not everyone wants to take these PED's because there are long term side effects and illnesses that may come down the line.

The media has done a lousy job of covering PED's when it relates to boxing, and because of it, its the fighters both clean and cheating that will have to pay for this mess, and some maybe even with their lives.

 

You are one to see a murder happen, go home, close the door, and hide.

God help us if everyone in this world were like you.:-(

 

There is a monumental difference with body building and boxers.

The body builder who uses drugs is possibly harming his own health.

.....but in boxing, the cheat is attempting to put a beatdown on another human being.
That is something that is worth putting a halt too.

A fighter who is clean is being effected by a fighter who has a physical leg up on him and his cheating.

 

For Pascal to have stipulated beforehand would have people including Hopkins talking and stating, "he's afraid to face me, because he knows I kicked his ass the first time."
It would be Pascal who would be a laughing stock under your proposal.

Having signed to fight Hopkins first, Pascal proves he is not afraid, and that he's going to go through with the fight with or without the testing.


"I kicked his ass, now he wants me to take PED tests!"

I could just imagine Hopkins running with that.

......but the way it stands today, Pascal was right there in Hopkins face with no fear.:deal