Max Kellerman: USADA Is A Smoke Show; Allows PED Users To Get Away...

From what I read in that article, Floyd was involved in a while lot more than saline solution.

 

If he failed at the pre-fight physical, the fight would have been cancelled.

The reason a retroactive TUE exists is to take care of acute conditions, like dehydration. That’s the point.

 

A simple dehydration is not enough to get a TUE for an IV, then you should drink a glass of water. You have to be severely dehydrated (to the point it is life threatening) to get that. And that doesn't just happen out of the blue, there should have been signs on that day. If a fighter is dehydrated, his blood pressure is likely to be low and his pulse rate high. Mayweather’s blood pressure and pulse rate were normal for an athlete. When a ring doctor tells a fighter to open his mouth the doctor is also checking the mucous membrane lining inside the fighter’s mouth for signs of dehydration. Furthermore, if a fighter is dehydrated, there are additional signs of that condition in his skin turgor. Neither of these conditions was noted by the examining doctor. Why should anyone believe that Mayweather was dehydrated? There is no proof.

 

All the posters that posted in this thread that are defending USADA are the same douches that support IV use in homes and BS magical unicorn TUEs. You know, if it hasn't been obvious in the past.

 

Source?

 

You saw the pre-fight medical data sheet didn't you? That a source for that.

But feel free to educate yourself:

https://www.boxnation.com/boxing-ne...ated-the-fallout-from-can-boxing-trust-usada/

 

Yeah, that’s a corticosteroid. While it’s classified as a steroid it is not an anabolic steroid. It is used to treat inflammation, not give you more power and endurance.

Of course you knew that but you’d rather just say steroid to pad your weak ass argument to those who don’t know any better between a corticosteroid and a real performance enhancer.

 

Who can train harder, a person who experiences superhuman suppression of inflammation after training or a person who experiences normal inflammation after training?

I can address the rest of you haters after work.

 

I used to tell people Floyd was on the sauce even before these articles came about! He cameback stronger from his retirement! He was in the sauce since the Marquez fight for sure!

 

This kind of a smoke show? https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...air-and-tried-to-cover-it-by-coughing.627680/

 

Dude, he was raised by a man who ran a chain of testosterone treatment clinics.

 

You provided an opinion piece that doesn't actually support what you claimed.

 

If you want to have a more beleiveable argument, you should claim that Floyd had an unnecessary IV administered because he wanted to rehydrate effectively but was in violation because his state of dehydration was not severe enough.

Other arguments don't hold any weight because PED use after a weigh in is rare, he had already passed tests, and if USADA were in his pocket, he wouldn't need an IV to pass a drug test.