Kevin Mitchell: "I wouldn't put my money on Americans being clean"

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  1. BigReg

    BigReg Broad Street Bully Full Member

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    On Mayweather/Pacquiao blood testing

    "I think Mayweather's got a fair point with the testing. If someone won't take a drug test then there's a problem there, Mayweather's taken the test so what's the big deal? I'm not sure about Pacquiao's reason for not giving blood - that he feels weakened by it. I've never felt weakened giving blood, though maybe it's different for him."

    On guys moving up multiple divisions and still looking unstoppable

    "It's pretty impossible to win titles at flyweight all the way through to welterweight. I've come up from featherweight to lightweight. Now you try getting me up to middleweight. Even if I was lifting weights to reach that size I wouldn't be fit enough to box,I think the Americans have been doing it for years - they all fly through weight divisions but still look like He-Man."

    On difference between Brittish and American fighters

    "British fighters such as Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe were beating Americans at their right weights, but when we go up a couple of weights we struggle for strength. The Americans go up five weights and are still smashing people. That only happens in comic books. Roy Jones and Shane Mosley have been caught and something's happening out there. British fighters are clean but I wouldn't put money on Americans being clean."
     
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  2. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What Mitchell meant is that Pacquiao is American when he trains in LA.
     
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  3. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    Pac is on roids. It's official. Call the police. Set up the trial. Burn him at the stake.

    Yay, sports are pristine again!
     
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  4. crimson

    crimson Boxing Addict banned

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    rofl!!!
     
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  5. Da Chin Chekka

    Da Chin Chekka Chi-Town!!! Full Member

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    Ricky hatton weighed as much as 190 then shrinks down to 140, so how the hell can he be fighting them at his right weight?
     
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  6. MrMagoo1986

    MrMagoo1986 Active Member Full Member

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    mitchell needs to shut the **** up and mind his own business, concentrate on ur own fight saturday night otherwise katsidis is gonna knock him the **** out
     
    MrMagoo1986, May 10, 2010
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  7. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Anaconda Malt Liquor?
     
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  8. Dirt99

    Dirt99 Active Member Full Member

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    it amazes me that there isnt more drug testing in boxing, i mean theres litterally peoples lifes on the line. other sports have drug testing it should go with out saying. bring in harsh penalties and it would soon clean up the sport.
    For example in rugby a player tested positive for cocaine and was banned for two years and in boxing a boxer (we all know who) got caaught loading his gloves (dont need to remind anyone of the risto vs collins) and he only got a two year ban........
     
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  9. RJD

    RJD Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Jack Presscott needs to school Mitchel on SBA's.
     
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  10. des3995

    des3995 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It wouldn't surprise me if this guy was a poster on ESB.
     
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  11. AnthonyW

    AnthonyW ESB Official Gif Poster Full Member

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    I weren't expecting this from Mitchell...fair enough, everyone has an opinion. But if he's looking at becoming a big star in boxing...I'm pretty sure he knows he will have to travel to America for the big fights out there, but I'm not sure the Americans will welcome him with open arms anymore.
     
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  12. roly

    roly Boxing Addict Full Member

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    there's a huge difference between being fat and fighting weight
     
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  13. roly

    roly Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i think he has a point, if drug testing was stricter in boxing a lot more fighters would be caught. and fighters that move up through multiple weight classes retaining power and strength have got to be more likely to be guilty. obviously not all succesful multiple weight jumpers are for example pbf, but quite a few are i reckon.
     
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  14. Lazarus

    Lazarus Realist Full Member

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    Man I respect Mitchell n all but he needs to calm down. If he wants his respect to continue he should be careful. After the Prescott fight he just start putting his mouth out a bit, but none the less, at the moment I respect the guy.
     
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  15. Auracle21

    Auracle21 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    lol @ kevin mitchell saying anything and trying to be relevant. he has to earn before he gets to that point.
     
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