As Boxing fans, Do you believe that USADA drug testing is better for the sport?

Great. You should write a thank you letter to these "PED experts" for "enlightening" you:

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Yes for a more thorough testing on everybody.

... but, would it be feasible at a cost of 20k for each fighter?

 

I think it's a little over the top personally but it goes in the right direction.

 

For big championship fights yes, in general no it will completely destroy boxing since the 4 to 6 round fighters get an average of 3-400 hundred bucks a fight if there lucky and the testing cost over 700.

 

I support any cohesive across the board policy that is unifromly adopted in all the commissions in the states at least, with the UK and Europe to follow suit.

But I could only seeing it be a policy that could be adopted for title fights.

The cost would be too prohibative for club fighters and orgainisations.

I do not support one fighter using it as a negotiation point and I don't think issues of this level have any place during the negotiations.

Health issues SHOULD be mandated by the "authority" whatever that is depending on location.

 

As a sports fan in general, a resounding YES!

Of course, boxing is so spread out, and unorganized, that without one sole authoritative figure in charge, it's pretty damn near impossible to implement. It really comes down to the individual state and alphabet commissions, and the fighters and promoters themselves if they wanna implement it when they are involved.

But I think it would hurt the state and alphabet commissions since the expenses have to come from somewhere, and fighters could easily go elsewhere.

The only commission that could possibly make it work is the NSAC since Vegas is the world capital of boxing.

 

As a boxing fan, yup its a good thing and i would like to see it brought in. But i think it would be very hard to implement at the lowest levels of the sport. I would assume it would cost a fair bit to do, something which may not be worth it for the lowest level fighters. But then the problem is you have to differentiate between who is 'worthy' of giving blood if its not going to be done at the lowest levels, something which would be a problem IMO

 

Mosley's comments were also correct in 24/7.

 

I think the exact opposite, it does not have to be universal because it is to expensive for club fighters etc . . . but on an elite level it should be implemented. if they do it at the top it will have a chilling effect all the way through the system especially if you couple that with heavy fines for fighters and trainers. As for one on one, I would want to make sure the other guy is fighting fair, whether it is peds, wraps or anything in between . . . wouldn't you? This is a combat sport after all.

 

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It's overdone and over the top IMO... not very reaslistic either considering the wages of lesser fighters and promoters out there. No ****ing way you could do this kind of testing across the board.

Find a different, more convenient way to enforce stricter drug testing and I'm on board.

 

No.

More testing is a good thing but boxing needs experts to decide what drugs should be tested for. You can't just look at what is tested in other sports and apply it to boxing. I support more testing but I don't support USADA.

They also need to take into consideration training patterns, which they haven't done. It's fine for springing or marathon running, but boxing is different and their tests need to bend to the different training boxers go through.

At the moment, it's fine for athletics, but that's it. It's completely different to other drug testing and boxing needs it's own too.

 

People bring up commissions as the only bodies that could implement OSBT (probably because that is what the Pac camp has said, so some people just follow their talking point). What about the organizations? what if they said if you want are in a fight officially sanctioned by us and is making over x amount of dollars than you have to be subjugated to OSBT. Wouldn't that be ironic if the organizations fees the PBF did not want to pay where the ones that implemented the policy that he has "championed"!

 

Thats the hard part about it, its unfair to differentiate between 'elite' fighters and 'lower level' fighters. Some1 could reach the top, make a fair bit of cash, stop taking the PEDs, have big fights and, even if they lose, make a lot of money.

Also the problem lies in the question, who is an elite fighter? if 1 fighter is elite and the other s lower level do both men have to take the test? or just the elite fighter?

for me its either include every1, or no1 at all.