My favorite fighter's this generation in order were Cotto, JMM, Pac. Only Cotto has survived the cut, all due to PED suspicion. When will the madness end, when will we incorporate stringent testing like we should?? What needs to happen, we already had a Shane scandal and still nothing. I'm looking for some opinions on what needs to happen or at what point does boxing incorporate stringent testing, thoughts?
I tend to chuckle at the thought of modern day athletes needing PEDs to win 12 round fights as opposed to the 15 rounders athletes trained for back in the day. If these are your favorite fighters of this generation, shouldn't you give them the benefit of the doubt? Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz? More testing should be involved, problem is it would cost to test every single boxer especially year round. Promoters and managers won't want to implement it because some of their best money makers will be exposed and tainted to the public. Then again Shane had that balco scandal and people still love him.. This is a very complicated issue.(more-so for financial reasons rather than ethical ones)
I think once strict testing is implemented boxing will look like cycling, with all but a few of its biggest stars getting exposed. Just look at the 90's. How many of the big names of that time are currently known as ped cheats. Problem is that boxing doesn't care. And some of the fans even give a fighter a pass for getting caught, or make excuses.
Marquez at 41 is still fighting like a focking 22 year old kid. Well his chest is littered with severe acne outbreak that looks like boils maybe he's still a kid lol Anyone who thinks Heredia is not injecting steroids to JMM is out of touch and should crawl back under the rock.
Innocent until proven guilty is for the court of law, not for public opinion. I am a man of free will with only my independent thoughts and observation's to go by as I know boxing is not cared enough about to be seriously investigated. And PED's would benefit anyone, sure modern boxer's have less rounds, but can you definitively say how much energy is being spent during those rounds. I think if we could, you would find that modern day boxers are expending a greater amount of energy by putting more into their shots. And so if you're right on your final thought, then the question becomes, how does it become a wise business decision for promoter's to get their boxer's taking stringent testing?
Cotto, Danny, and Khan. It takes me a long time to put a fighter on my "a" list..They gotta show some skills, willingness to fight everyone, and I gotta believe they can beat everyone they step in with.
Problem with random drug testing is it couldn't catch flies with sh't. The ones caught with that kinda testing are too dumb to tie their own shoes. Even year round random testing, in combination with a blood passport, by multiple different labs has been beaten countless times and often cheats are caught due to retesting years later or by indirect circumstances. (ped lab/supplyer exposed, caught carrying the stuff, confessing or getting ratted out etc)
