Dougie Fischer says USA need to take a page from the BBBoC book on drug bans

I believe the eight-month suspension is around the usual length of time for a first-time offender in the state of Nevada (where Ortiz was pinched for nandrolone after blasting Lateef Kayode in one round last September). I wouldn’t call it “lenient.” Lenient is the three-month suspension that the NSAC handed Mickey Bey (by a 3-2 vote) after the Money Team fighter iced poor Robert Rodriguez in February 2013 and then tested positive for elevated testosterone levels (a T/E ratio greater than 30-1, in fact, second highest in Nevada history). I guess Mickey had a note from his doctor. (Ya think that doctor was part of The Medical Team, along with the two commissioners that voted against suspending Bey?) Personally, I think boxing commissions in the U.S. should take a page from the British Boxing Board of Control and UKAD (UK Anti-Doping) and ban boxers who fail drug tests for two years as they did with heavyweight prospect Dillian Whyte in 2012. Whyte, who tested positive for a banned stimulant methylhexaneamine (MHA), claimed that he unknowingly ingested it with a legal sports/nutritional supplement (which had been pulled from shelves in the UK just a few weeks before his fight and subsequent failed drug test). He stated his case in an appeal to the BBBC, but a special tribunal rejected the appeal even though they believed him. They basically told Whyte: “Dude, you need to read the ingredients of anything you put into your body – especially sports drinks and nutritional supplements. A five-minute Google search could have spared you this two-year suspension.”

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:good UK also test out of competition

 

Excellent post

 

He didn't. He's no Roid Jones, Fraud Mayweather or James Foney. He doesn't take PEDs.

 

What's this? Alexthetranny taking issue in what a poster says about America rather than tackling the thread topic... Shocker

 

I have no agenda, you meanwhile want to get upset with any poster who mentions a fact that doesn't make Yanks look good. Why do you comment on threads and never tackle the subject. Do you agree with Dougie or not, stay puft?