fighters who got caught using illegal substance or caught red handed in pro/amateur

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  1. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Be very stupid if he did because he was served a 12 month ban.

    Found this about it.

    By now living in Florida, Awesome’s path got a bit smoother, and then rockier, which Wikipedia touches on, but with semi-infuriating thinness. He beat Bryant Jennings, who just won a WBC title shot eliminator on July 26, in the National Golden Gloves finals in 2009. He was on a road to the 2012 Olympics, thanks to wins like the one at the 2010 USA Boxing Championship in Colorado. Then the snafu, which Wiki “details” under the heading “Drug Suspension.” USADA, the entry reads, in February 2012 suspended Thompson for a year, for failing to meet requirements regarding his whereabouts, needed to be ascertained so he could be found for out of competition testing. Three times he couldn’t be found, the entry says, in an 18 month timespan.

    Hmm, think there might be something implied there? Yep, don’t know whose fingerprints are on this Wiki page, but if it were my entry, I’d hope that the counterfactual argument, or at least explanation, would be asked of me.

    Anyway, I asked Thompson what happened there. He told me.

    One time he was “AWOL,” he said, came when he was in NY, attending a Nets game. He informed testing agency USADA the house he’d be staying at, and gave them his cell number. He wasn’t at the house when they came requesting a sample, and when they tried calling his cell, he didn’t pick up. Why? Because he had no cell service in the arena. If he’d gotten the call, he’d have been tasked with getting back to that house within 60 minutes. But since he didn’t get the call, it was counted as a “miss.” Another miss came when he filled out some required paperwork for USADA for the Trials, online, past the deadline date. (I confess, not being so great at such tasks, I feel for the guy on this one.) And then, for his third strike, he was competing, in Azerbejian, and forgot to inform the testing folks that he was not at home. Since he was competing for USA Boxing, in an international competition, it strikes me that it wouldn’t have been too hard for the testing people to figure out where he was, but anyway…

    Three strikes, and he was out. The whole Lance Armstrong doping kerfuffle was not coincidentally playing out during that time, Awesome notes, so, he thinks, that didn’t help when it came time to ponder punishment. “I feel as though they made an example of me,” he admits.

    I grilled him, though. Has he used any illegal PEDs, or banned party drugs, or anything?

    “No, I haven’t. Anything that is illegal, I wouldn’t know where to start to find them,” said the guy whose Twitter handle is PlantBasedBoxer, because he’s been vegan for the last two years. “I don’t do any drugs. I am anti pain pills even. No marijuana, no PEDs…I mean, I don’t look like I do anything. I don’t have the build for anyone to say I’m on steroids.”
     
  2. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Thank you for dismissing my post without addressing it. Thank you.
     
  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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  4. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    by 'it is what it is' are you referring to corruption?:hey
     
  5. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I don't believe him as far as not knowing where to start to find illegal drugs. Because I wouldn't believe 98% of the population if they said that.

    But... a violation and punishment was handed down. It just was not EXACTLY the same as testing positive, as other poster(s) have implied.
     
  6. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    I'm referring to you, me, and everyone else knowing X information.

    You, me, and everyone else can draw however many conclusions we want from X information.

    But X information is what X information is. And, in this case, X information is not being caught using an illegal substance, as that is what this thread is supposedly about.
     
  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    No it's not the same.
     
  8. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    I guess its one of them cases where people can come to a logical conclusion based on what happened I suppose
     
  9. kriszhao

    kriszhao Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Floyd was using Manny was most likely using as well.... not being punished or having a "violation" because you have a commission in your Back pocket ( see the 24-7 when floyd had an illegal gym and sparring drugs as well as i believe no licence for other fighters training at that gym at the time if I remember correctly etc). as well as your own your own paid to ignore drug testing things such as low TE and allowing less then 6-weeks testing medical exemptions for failing tests and refusing to actually implement tests that catch people even though charging significantly more then the comp VADA who actually catches cheats... USADA is corrupt as hell this is an age of steroid cheats unfortunate but true ( well really since the 70's most likely the upper tier probably have been juicing). :twisted:
     
  10. Mind Reader

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    Damn close. Haha
     
  11. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    That incident with those Greek sprinters a few years back (actually probably a fair bit more than that) kind of raised my suspicion level when it comes to athletes missing tests.
     
  12. YesMySon

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    something permitted is not illegal
     
  13. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    This.

    See: "it is what it is."

    Everything else is just our opinions. Which is fine. Just we have to recognize that it is merely an opinion.

    Hey, I was straight up way ahead of everybody on this forum with PED's. I didn't join very long ago at all and everyone was in such a dramatic denial of everything PED-related back then in just 2010. I was called a fool for what I said back then and fast forward just a few years and most of the vermin have slowly managed to find a middle ground where they can still stay rooted in their agenda without sounding like a completely naïve fool... I was the one saying Lance was on PED's back when he was winning Tours and everybody yelled down my throat pointing a finger with a menacing tone. You can go back to the '90's and my opinions on PED's have barely changed. Over time, I have been proven more correct than incorrect. And as I said before, luckily the majority have slowly began to change their stance as well.

    The bottom line is that this forums' casuals all fall on the party line of whatever Team Pacquiao said. So, the opinions changed the very instant Team Pacquiao's stance on PED's and PED testing changed after KTFO6 in 2012 and the following Pacquiao/Brandon Rios negotiations at the end of 2013, then further again with that awkward testing situation for the Pac/Bradley rematch.
     
  14. Mind Reader

    Mind Reader J-U-ICE Full Member

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    My younger brother was smoking tons of pot back in the day, ran from a test and got kicked off the wrestling team.. He passed the very next day and they asked him to come back but he quit. lol.. Running = guilty IMO.. most cases anyway.
     
  15. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Are you sure it wasn't a case of him being paranoid that they wanted to smoke some of his pot? The pot will do that to you you know. I used to partake in the smoking of the pot so I know what I'm talking about. Truth be told I have smoked more pot sticks in my time than I care to remember. :D