When Tyson asked Holyfield for additional testing

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  1. Miles5149

    Miles5149 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is that why he agreed to everything else and was very negotiable on the drug testing issue? He was able to accept 14 days out, which is very reasonable, especially with a guy like Mayweather's ego.

    And I always ask and never get a real response if the roles reversed. Imagine if Pac asked Mayweather for a drug test and he refused. You would all be saying what a coward cheat Mayweather is. It's a joke. Be unbiased for a second in your dull lives.

    I don't get what is so hard to give blood. We've all done it in our lives. Is it really a big deal? No, it's not.
     
  2. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Even before Holyfield-Tyson, Hearns and Stewart were asking Leonard to take a steroid test for their rematch in 1989
     
  3. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    As you could tell by my posts on it, you're preaching to the choir. :thumbsup Too bad so many other fans are in complete denial over it....
     
  4. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :deal
     
  5. TheCrazyCal

    TheCrazyCal Baby Faced Hassassin Full Member

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    thanks matey, fascinating subject ive researched alot.. its just naivety...

    i remember seeing duane chambers in an interview post linford fail (dumbass got caught using the steroid with THE longest active afterlife decca with 18 months) and duane looking in the camera and swearing he only ever took vitamins and cod liver oil, cos you cant be too careful..

    thanks for the other likes too :)

    tbh the lying i`m sure is something that just needs to be done, i bet most, if steroids were legal wouldnt lie and are probbly otherwise very truthful people.
    its just what you do to compete at a high level.
     
  6. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Holy massive clean muscle gain
    Holy massive hair loss

    I don't oppose his use of Roids to move from Lean 190, into Lean 215. (He didn't cut weight early on)

    It was necessary for him to move to heavyweight, Roids are useful in heavyweight, unless your style requires you to be light
     
  7. TheCrazyCal

    TheCrazyCal Baby Faced Hassassin Full Member

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    any cruiserweight who can live with the best superheavyweights around at the time is special.
     
  8. Terror

    Terror free smoke Full Member

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    evan fields tho...

    OP is a dirty piece of **** dragging more pac floyd **** up and can go **** themselves
     
  9. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    I really think it's just the cost of doing business at high (and even not-so-high) levels of sport.

    Much of the vilifying that gets done to people in organized sports like football, the Olympics, and baseball (the NBA doesn't even pretend to care) is done as a P.R. measure- if leagues act like the one guy who gets caught is the outlier and the cheater, he can get tarred and feathered and the sport can maintain its image.

    Oddly enough, because boxing is perhaps the last major sport left without a national board controlling it, a caught fighter never really gets buried for the sake of institutional protection the same way another athlete might. A star fighter gets caught, there's a touch of shock, some faux outrage, and fans and the media go right back to rating them the exact same way.

    From a health standpoint, I'd love to see boxing have a way to eliminate PED's because they'll lead to more brain damage being caused quicker. The problem is that the current dynamic is an utter failure in that regard and simply uses a lot of money, energy, and resources to not work. I'm not so sure the cat ever gets put back in the bag.
     
  10. JAB5239

    JAB5239 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Good post.
     
  11. TheCrazyCal

    TheCrazyCal Baby Faced Hassassin Full Member

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    great post:thumbsup