So Bivol vs Barrera likely OFF cause Bivol WONT accept VADA testing... SMH

You forgot to mention Povetkin in your list!

 

Hmmm...... Bold prediction but I like the conviction. I think Kovalev beats both before his head got way too inflated, not sure about now. No doubt though, he was elite.

 

But is Bivol really refusing testing, or is that just an excuse from Barrera?

And I know for a fact Kovalev is not refusing VADA testing, so why did Barrera refuse to fight him? And for more money than he was to receive against Bivol.

 

Barrera has refused to fight Kovalev at least two times!!! That's a fact! Now Barrera is having second thoughts about fighting Bivol....................it's just an excuse to get out of the right! Barrera will refused to fight.............

I do not believe anything Barrera says! There is a huge bias against Eastern European fighters and I see it now..................Barrera is counting on that.............

 

Is he Cuban?

 

Yes, he is Cuban.................

 

Fighters delay signing things constantly for god knows why.

Skewering him for this feels ridiculously premature.

 

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Bivol confirmed sign VADA. Fight is on schedule.
Delay in signing not equal guilty, there might be some communication issues. I give Bivol the benefit of the doubt.

 

3 weeks is the same amount of time certain PEDs take to disappear from the system, benefit of the doubt is generous. Can't blame Barrera for crying foul here.

 

I don't blame Barrera either, I'm glad he is being vocal about it in the media, especially in today's climate where everybody, especially the one with influence, prefer not to be tested.

 

6 months is often how long the majority of top fighters go without being tested between fights. You aren't making a very good case here.

 

Good. I still think it was silly Bivol was presumed guilty for not immediately adding VADA testing to an already signed contract.


Me thinks Barrera may be protesting too much, and could be doing this as a means of deflecting his own use on to Bivol. The natural question is why he himself didn't bring up VADA testing until now instead of when the contract was being hammered out

 

It shouldn't of been required to be in the contract. All top 15 WBA fighters from Jan 1st 2018 needed to be enrolled in VADA or risk being stripped of rankings or titles as per the WBA's fairboxing program.

It was amateurish of Bivol and his team to not have enrolled before, they would of been told along with everyone else on the 6th April 2017, they had 9 months to enroll. I assume the holiday period and the fact in Russia the first 7 days of Jan is a public holiday is the reason why they didn't do it sooner when the mandatory date for enrolling hit. But now Bivol might be unfairly marked out as a possible cheat because of poor management of this issue.

Barrera was right to bring it up and other boxers need to take note of this issue, anyone not enrolled now needs to do so ASAP as this has now already been highlighted as an issue and any fighter failing to do so, should be looked at with suspicion, they've had plenty of warning.