Given Frank would have known the substances he failed for. You can see why he's not exactly rushed to his defence
Testing positive for multiple banned substances will be him and his career done then. Has there ever been anyone in the sport other than Conte and Larry O, that when caught, they have simply come clean? I can't think of any. hence we have a sport much like this board. Plus, the more they lie and get away with it, the more defiant they become. Amazing no one in the sport has ever tested positive for EPO. Edit - It's seems one of the drugs Jarrell Miller popped for was EPO.
No way is he done Far too young and what else is he gonna do? He'll be able to take a ban and still have a career
Article in the Times - by Tom Kershaw, The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) is “carefully considering” the activities of a GP who has worked with leading British boxers, including Tyson Fury and Conor Benn, after one of his fighters failed a doping test. Dr Usman Sajjad, who is listed as a GP at Churchtown Medical Centre in Southport, has become the subject of scrutiny after Dennis McCann, the European super-bantamweight champion, was suspended on December 16 after a positive drugs test. McCann, 24, had been scheduled to box on the undercard of Fury’s rematch against Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia just before Christmas. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Dr Sajjad announced that he was “excited to be on board working with” McCann in the build-up to the cancelled bout. This content is protected McCann, the super-bantamweight, was suspended on December 16 after a positive drugs test REX Dr Sajjad was working with Benn when the boxer tested positive in 2022. In a podcast interview, also in 2022, Dr Sajjad, who has previously worked with the England Boxing amateur set-up, said he believed “80 to 90 per cent” of elite boxers could be using drugs and described ways in which they might evade anti-doping. Fury and Benn are still listed as clients on Dr Sajjad’s public Instagram profile. He posted an image of himself with the former heavyweight world champion shortly after Fury’s defeat by Usyk last month. “So proud of your performance @tysonfury bro… Wasn’t feeling well enough to go to Riyadh this time but was supporting [you] from afar,” the caption read. Benn is free to resume fighting in the UK after the National Anti-Doping Panel cleared him of any wrongdoing over his two positive drugs tests in 2022. Fury, who tested positive for nandralone in 2015, which predated his relationship with Dr Sajjad, publicly backed the GP amid the fallout from Benn’s positive tests. “I have known him for about a year and he works with quite a lot of boxers and whatever happens I would definitely say it has nothing to do with Usman,” said Fury, who blamed his own positive test on eating uncastrated wild boar and accepted a backdated two-year ban in 2017. Robert Smith, the general-secretary of the BBBofC, said that Dr Sajjad is a subject of interest for the national governing body. This content is protected Benn, right, is free to resume fighting in the UK after the National Anti-Doping Panel cleared him of any wrongdoing “The board is aware of the situation and is taking the matter very seriously and can confirm the activities of Dr Usman Sajjad are being carefully considered,” Smith said in a statement. The Sunday Times has learned that McCann tested positive for two banned anabolic-androgenic steroids, drostanolone and trenbolone. The BBBofC declined to confirm if those were indeed the two drugs present. Frank Warren, McCann’s promoter, has previously told BoxNation that the undefeated former British and Commonwealth champion “swore to me that he has not taken any performance-enhancing drugs”. McCann is suspended while UK Anti-Doping investigates his case. In an interview with the QualityShot Boxing podcast, which is still available on YouTube, published in 2022, Dr Sajjad said: “You would have to be an idiot to fail a drug test in England.” He then went on to describe how boxers could evade random drug-testing agencies by using “very fast-acting testosterone or growth hormones which can leave your body for seven or eight hours”. “When I say doping, it’s not just steroids. You’ve got IV fluid infusion after weigh-ins, you’ve got diuretics, you’ve got growth hormones, you’ve got testosterone replacements. In terms of excuses, I don’t really believe them. Athletes know what’s going to happen if they fail,” he said. Asked if he’d heard of boxers using drugs, Dr Sajjad added: “A lot. We will talk off camera.” At the time, a spokesman for Dr Sajjad said that he has never had any involvement in the supply of performance-enhancing drugs. Dr Sajjad and McCann’s advisor did not respond when contacted for comment.
Just shows you that when it comes to PED's a lot of these people are complete cowboys who haven't got a clue what they are doing. Any meat head in any gym could tell you why tren is about the worst PED a boxer could take lol.
If he has the luxury, like Conor Benn, to be able to stay in the gym and still maintain his standard of living, etc., then he has a chance, as long as it's not a Tete length ban. If not, he could well be the next Mitchell Smith, and I know Mitchell's situation was different, but time away from the sport, others and opportunity will simply bypass him. Also shocking were the drugs he popped for, so he doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in the drawer, and neither does his doctor. Could you imagine Michele Ferrari being around now and asking his athletes for a quick snap so he can post it up on Instagram?
As Ian Fleming said, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action” Either the guy is really unlucky, as in afflicted with the Sadim Touch, or something really is rotten in the state of Bidston; plus, by the looks of him, he seems more in need of a fitness doctor than anyone he is currently advising. Also a fair chance King Kenny, whom he also advises, is heavily into the PED's. McCann left school at 11 to focus on his boxing, he used to travel down from Birmingham to London to train at the Repton before turning pro. Then sacrificed so much in living the life to fulfil his dream, that it has more likely than not cost him that too. This sport is ****ed, and you have to feel for any journeyman pro and TBA, who are getting in the ring to face these fighting machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if he's not the fighter they make an example of and give a heavy ban too, but if they do, I also wouldn't be too surprised if someone in Bidston gets the real-life Snatch treatment.
Really not been a lot about this at all!? Or is this just being conducted properly and we will hear the outcome once it's decided.