Let's Talk About It...Is OSDT Bad For The Sport

Floyd probably being the greatest boxer of all time has always been a step ahead of his peers.

When he saw Pacquaio's weight jumping miracle, being an elite boxer himself, he knew this was NOT POSSIBLE!

With Amir Khan's energy two weeks ago and his suddenly granite chin....

Now we have a 46 year old trading bombs with a puncher of his weight category in his prime.

This has to be attributed to PEDS use, and nothing else. If you don't believe me then I challenge you to check the history of boxing if these things have been accomplished by any boxer? Answer: NO!

This should be enough proof to clamour for Random Olympic Style Drug testing and show the world boxing is not for cheats!

 

Yes. It's super ****ing expensive. Maybe it's justified in OMG HUGE OMG P4P OMG FoTY PPV fights, but it costs thousands and thousands of bucks. The last thing boxing needs is a higher overhead. Blood tests and urine tests should be fine anyway.

 

Boxing has been around for century, nobody give a **** about OSDT. OSDT is what Floyd used to duck Pacquiao....end of thread.

 

If the promoters are willing to foot the bill, whatever I dont care(they won't) fine, let it happen. Like I said, I'm fine with urine for most fights and a combination of blood and urine for bigger fights. OSDT just isn't sustainable as an industry standard, and the sooner you(and everyone else with a mayweather flag on their sleeve) realize that the better.

 

With technology & science developing faster than ever, it's only a matter of time for any tests to be as good using either " hair, urine, blood or possibly semen and saliva ".

At some point, blood tests will be entirely replaced by any other less intrusive form of testing.


The random aspect of testing will and should be kept though.

 

Boxing should implement it for its big fights. In this sport where people get hit for a living, it's definitely needed. There are definitely a few highly suspicious fighters out there.

 

All of us should. Like you, I wear my Floyd flag as proud as a marine who has gone to war. :good Floyd is a pioneer and an ambassador of our sport. Drugs have no place in this best combat sport the world has ever seen. Fact. :good

 

You mean, you could test Ellerbe's saliva to get Floyd's semen and see if he is on PEDs?

Wow, the wonders of modern science. :shock:

 

Full OSDT is pretty excessive. It might be justified in Mayweather-Pacquiao because of the ungodly amounts of money involved, but outside of megamoney fights like that it doesn't really have a place. The problem I have with this whole OSDT thing is that it's being pushed by Mayweather fans simply for no other reason than that Floyd himself wants it. Meaning, it is not driven by a perceived need to clean up the sport but the blind, uneducated support of a single selfish mother****er.

OSDT is a heavy handed and inefficient solution to tackling PEDS in boxing which I don't believe are very prevalent in the first place. most of the dudes on anabolics who we knew were using the **** tire late in bouts: holyfield, jones jr., toney, mosley, etc. AAS don't really make you a better boxer. Boxing does. something like EPO boosts could be really useful as a stamina enhancer, but there are natural ways to get that too. so...