Dillian Whyte PED Discussion: Guilty? Not Guilty? Who Cares?

It was the Hammer fight that was overturned from memory.

 

No, not at all. I'm not real up to speed on today's drug testing protocols, and I'm stunned that a"clean boxing program" offers TUE's. I just find it comical.

 

I think he did, Wlad did find out about the failed test until after they already fought. I remember reading this.

 

Oh I guess I got it backwards my bad. Could have swore he failed before the Wlad fight and Wlad didn't find out till after which was why Wlad demanded strict drug testing for the rematch.

 

TUE's are mandated by law. ****, your life or someone esle's medical needs trump sport. You'd get sued to high heaven if you forced someone out of their career because they need asthma inhaler to breathe. There are LEGITIMATE reasons to get a TUE. But that's the reality, even though it is legit, cheaters know how to abuse the system. And with HIPAA, all them TUE's are walled off in high secrecy. Unfortunately it's just a fact of the game.

 

Isn't that the same way a lot of UFC fighters were getting TRT exemptions? A good friend of mine is a UFC LHW and he was always bitching about TRT a few years back. He said the dudes would just blast and cruise around their fights. Right after a fight they would just crank their Test up to 2 grams a week.

 

Joshua was accused of using TUEs for testosterone and he is a 6’6, shredded 240-250lb muscle monster. Just makes a mockery of the whole system.

 

So it was confirmed on 17th July that the winner of Whyte-Rivas would be mandatory for the WBC - the very same day he tested hot for "multiple" substances! Maybe it's just a coincidence. Or...

...Did the WBC wait until they got a sniff of a positive test, and then confirm the mandatory, already in the knowledge that once the positive test was reported, his chances would be scuppered anyway.

I personally think the WBC are doing a very good job of protecting Wilder...from drug cheats! Whyte didn't even feel he could beat Rivas clean; doesn't bode well for facing DW or TF.

Heavyweight boxing has now moved stateside and it's AJ and Dil's fault. They didn't measure up, in the end. Canny old Tyson saw it coming, too...

 

If you're too ill to compete without using medication that has been proven to give athletes an unfair advantage then too bad. It's unfortunate but the way it is, your body has let you down and you're unable to compete the same way someone is if they tear their ACL IMO.

 

Not sure you realize but you need a TUE for medication for when you are recovering from say illness or surgery etc. It's not just to compete. You guys... c'mon why you guys go over the deep end on **** like this. TUE's have a place. It's just not the place for cheaters. Like hmm, a good example is Fluid Mayweather. That guy was topped off to the hilt on TRT treatments for years until NSAC banned TUE's for TRT. And when in a lawsuit he was forced to share his medical records which are you know like Fort Knox due to our countries crazy HIPAA laws, I digress but when he was demanded to release said records, Fluid instead paid the plaintiffs large sums of money and settled in a hurry.

 

Its about time they just legalized all drugs in sport OR an instant lifetime ban for using so much as a protein shake.

Either way it would be a level playing field, either they all use it or no one does.

At the minute it's a game of who gets lucky and doesn't get caught.

They are all at it and playing the game.

 

There's an obvious difference between what you're describing above and saying you have asthma and need a TUE pretty much indefinitely.

TUE's are currently a farcical loophole for cheats to exploit.

 

I didn't think Whyte was actually signed to Hearn/Matchroom.

 

I used the inhaler example to **** with the Brits lol. But yea, TUE's are a slippery slope. That's why you gotta love them fancy bears!

 

He definitely was. That's why Hearn and Whyte got the adverse finding and not say the one that is supposed to get said notification, the WBC.