Mayweather, Mosley In Concert On Drug Testing

Mayweather, Mosley In Concert On Drug Testing

LOS ANGELES (March 18) . . . Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley will begin the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) gold standard anti-doping program on Monday, March 22 as they continue to prepare for Mayweather vs Mosley "Who R U Picking?" set to take place on Saturday, May 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and produced and distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View ® beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.

It is the first time in history that athletes from any U.S. professional sport have reached out and demanded World Anti-Doing Code compliant drug testing, setting both a boxing and sport precedent.

Both Mayweather and Mosley have agreed to the gold-standard, anti-doping program, the most stringent in sport, as outlined and mandated by USADA. The program involves no-advance-notice sample collection of the athletes' blood and urine prior to and after the fight so that all banned substances, some of which do not show up in urine alone, are tested for thoroughly, and with both athletes subjected to the testing program leading up to as well as after the fight.

"I am excited that Shane Mosley and I are willing to take these tests to ensure a fair fight on May 1," said Mayweather. "I just want to show the world that boxing is a clean sport and it is my hope that all fighters will take a similar stance and responsibility which reflects sportsmanship at the highest level and sets a new standard for safety in boxing."

"I think the testing program is a great idea and I did not hesitate for a minute about agreeing to it," said Mosley. "Let's hope that the rest of the boxing world follows Floyd's and my example."

Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions said, "Floyd is leading the way for changing the sport and I commend him for that. Some people have asked why he has not asked for it in the past but it is never too late to take a stand on an issue that is prevalent in all sports today and ask for something that can only have positive results on the future of boxing."

Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions said, "Shane Mosley is one of the greatest fighters of this era and I commend him for agreeing to participate in a testing process that can only help the integrity of the sport. I commend both of these fighters for setting a new precedent in the sport and giving others an opportunity to reflect on its current state and how, as a collective group, we can continue to make the sport better, safer and fairer for anyone who steps in to the ring."

"I believe today is another watershed moment in the advancement of anti-doping," said USADA CEO, Travis T. Tygart. "For the first time, we're seeing professional athletes in the sport of boxing approach us to implement our program, and take ownership for the integrity of their sport. This is courageous action and we are proud to be a part of this effort to help further advance the rights of clean athletes to participate in a safe, level and drug-free arena."

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:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:

 

Regardless if Pac is CLEAN or Not, it's Gonna Get Harder & HARDER for him to Justify NOT Undergoing Random Testing @ Some Point...Sure, this is ALL a Concerted Effort on the Part of Floyd & Golden Boy to Make Pac look BAD...

But it's WORKING...



REED:hammert:

 

funny how Floyd has been fighting as a pro since 1996 yet until now he wants to clean up his sport?::

what about before? it was cool making all that money and his legacy in a dirty sport? get real!::

 

Manny Pacquiao will RETIRE.

 

Everything you point out is true, but you're completely missing the point. Like it or not, this shit is out of the bottle now. However bizarre or unappealing you may find the events that led up to it, the world of boxing is now pretty damn obsessed with the inadequacy of its current testing, and the potential benefit and perhaps necessity of using USADA testing.

And the only high-profile guy who is adamantly, publicly against this, even refusing to participate for any reason is.... Shane Mosley? You'd think so, wouldn't you? But he's on board. Even the steroid guy is on board. It's just Pac now. And every single time some giddy sportswriter poops out another "ain't this grand" puff piece about how great it is that fighters at the top of the sport are willing to step up and get properly tested where the commissions are dropping the ball... well, between the lines they might as well just write "Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao" because that's what everyone is thinking when they read it.

I think this might even catch on for other fighters who have some pull at the negotiation table and are not dependent on PEDs. Imagine every month or two ANOTHER article about the USADA tests in a high profile fight. And you know Floyd is going to keep demanding it, too, thus keeping it at the forefront of boxing until he retires.

THAT is the point.

Yep. Time to get out. Do you really think Pac wants to be humiliated as he scouts for opponents, only to find that other fighters are catching on and start asking for USADA testing, too? How many more times can a Pac fight die due to his refusal to get tested before pretty much everyone turns on the guy? That's what's coming, like it or not, unless he just keeps picking desperately grateful nobodies like Joshua Clottey who come only for a paycheck. But then what's the point of keeping going? Fight 3 more nondescript opponents? Why bother?

And if just one prominent state commission instates USADA testing for high-profile fights, you can bet that Floyd (and maybe others) will lobby hard to fight Pac in that state, thus putting Manny in another damaging, losing situation.

If I were him I'd get out now.

 

I think many fighters out there would be like Clottey and just happy to get a big money fight with Pacquiao. Mayweather is in the rare position where he's big enough of a name has enough leverage to demand extra drug testing. Judah demanded stricter drug testing on Mosley and G told him to shove it. Mayweather demanded it and Mosley said okay.

But of course Pacquiao won't be making as much money fighting those guys as he would fighting Mayweather (and vice versa) and many fans would grow restless watching them fight other guys and not each other.

 

AgREED. And whatever Floyd's motives this is a great precedent.

 

A bunch of hype and of course.

""I believe today is another watershed moment in the advancement of anti-doping," said USADA CEO, Travis T. Tygart. "For the first time, we're seeing professional athletes in the sport of boxing approach us to implement our program, and take ownership for the integrity of their sport. This is courageous action and we are proud to be a part of this effort to help further advance the rights of clean athletes to participate in a safe, level and drug-free arena.""

Translation: Today we start working toward making ouselves a lot of money thanks to PBF the anti-doping doper. We can look forward to passing the INCREASED cost on to the fans for the good of boxing. In reality floyd is proving he KNOWS he can't handle the same pac that all the other guys have got owned against and is hoping to god PAC either, won't take the testing because of his ego or is on roids and won't take the testing. Either way its a GLORIFIED bitch move.

 

I'd have said so too...until I realized there's about 2 boxing superstars left in the sport and therefore means f*ck all now. Take Floyd and Pacman out of boxing...there's nothing left. And one of those guys already retired for 2 years. The sport is in limbo, regardless of how vocal bigdawg is regarding boxing not being dead just because of a few good ppv numbers in respective Pacman and Floyd fights.::

 

This is so hilarious how PBF is carrying on this charade, as if in reality he feels compelled to impose this testing on anyone except Pacquiao.

What I'm interested to know is who pays for the testing? Does it come out of each fighter's purse, or what?

 

A reformed junkie and his paymaster. Nice.

 

:crafty: "This is what happens when an unstoppable force, meets an immovable object"..

 

A blood test to save your reputation, especially if you honestly think you can beat Floyd, seems like something Manny could suck it up and deal with.

I have no allegiance to either guy, but as an outside observer, I think if Manny fights again against anyone other than Floyd, I will believe that he's been juicing. A blood test is such a minor thing, if you're clean, to comply with in order to make history and cement your legacy.

 

This should have already started. They are only giving them a little over a month window of testing? So basically they can take what ever they want up until a month to the fight. Great testing.

 

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=26171

 

No, that's what happens when a divorced, broke-ass contrite motherfucker with a history for being other peoples bitch meets a bitch that is afraid of being someone elses bitch.

 

I was talking about Pedquiao / Fraud,.. the unstoppable chemical force,.. runs over everyone except the immovable object,.. and why is it immovable?.. there's a blood sampling needle in the way, that's going to stay there until Pedquiao finishes up all his remaining fights in the republican state of Texas.

 

Ellerbe said the internet wasn't around 10 years ago. ::

 

The internet is older than hip-hop. I guess that makes it an industry, too.

 

Jimmy Kimmel ought to have drug testing, too.

 

He'll keep fighting in Texas against guys like Margarito or some other Top Rank puppet. THEN he'll retire.

 

It couldn't get any better could it?,.. The groupies conveniently argued hard, that we should trust in the commissions to impliment better drug testing policey's because us lowly regular folk, aren't smart enough to foresee 'the dangers' that such a policey being implimented into boxing could bring,..'trust in god, it's not for us to say',........and now 'his excellency' Bob Arum in association with the all knowing all seeing 'holy' Texas boxing commission,.. have removed all drug testing,..REMOVED ALL DRUG TESTING,..to benefit Manny Pacquiao the superstar and prophet,(and his deciples, the revenue feeds) which will host an honourable guest, a compensated, disgraced felon who used to chock his handwraps with plaster...? "72 sins absolved if you pray Antonio".

Don't fight it Kenneth, it is 'God's will' ,...or you will feel the wrath come judgement day for your sins, with the four horsemen of the apocolypse summoned upon you,.. Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao, Texas boxing commission, and Antonio Margarito,..

:shit::shit::shit::shit::shit::shit::shit:

 

This post flashed me back to the an old SNL episode from the eighties where the amount of drug use in the Olympics had gotten so severe that the "All drug Olympics" were created. Everything was legal. No substance was banned. And then Phil Hartman got up there as a weightlifter who accidentally pulled so hard to lift a barbell off the floor that he tore his arms out at the sockets and just sat there in a drug-induced stupor watching himself bleed out.

If Manny is going to fight Margarito in Texas... then why not up the ante and make some real money? It could be billed as "The War of the Cheats: Science vs. Bricks" and Marg would be allowed to put anything he wants in his gloves, but would be strictly tested for drugs. Pac can put whatever he wants in his body, but would be strictly tested for loaded gloves.

It's genius.

 

:::::: !!!,.... god damn,.. .......repulsive in, many, many ways..

I do realise, that Arum is the owner of both baits,.. but with Margarito's disgraced reputation that 'some people otherwise would be now FORCED to admit',... Arum will compensate him, he's under contract, he's a back up, and he obviously knows how to empathise with a felon, publically exposed or not, Arum is one himself afterall,.. but I think it would be safe to say, the more filthy money rolling into his swiss bank account per event the better,.. thus it would be convenient for him, to cut one of his lines, for the benefit of the bigger reip,..and therefore, Arum will impose strict adherence to the rules of boxing, he'll dip that option like a globule of caviar, when it comes to Margarito (behind the scenes ofcourse),..but he'll put Pacquiao on the 'free market' so to speak, with the 'efficient and stringent regulation overseen by the Texas commission' .. and use Margarito's exposed notoriety, to promote this fight with a spectacular poster,.. "the battle between HEAVEN and HELL" ... Pacquiao being the angel ofcourse..with a halo and clouds in the background,.. and Margarito with a sooky, bitter face with flames behind him,..(bitter at the theme, but greatful for the pay)... I do realise that Arum is on record defending Margarito's innocence,.. but, since when has Arum ever cared for being caught in a contradiction?... "I lied then, but now Im telling the truth".. it worked before, people forgot,... it can work again,.. it is fanccentric stuff,.. Manny - Good (If this forum is an indicator to go by, FUCK IS HE EVER!!! *squuuueeeeeeaaaaaall*!!!) ...and then the otherside of the poster ... Margarito - Bad,..

It'll work,.. groupies will make it work, and chew lucien while watching it unfold, like a cow.

 

Yep...It's Already Being Discussed for October in Cowboy's Stadium...



REED:kidcool:

 

:crafty: REED can't complain then,.... with season tickets.

 

Ultimately, REED will B Satisfied...Pac will 1nce Again Fight in the Dallas Area AND Margarita will Get the Living Shit Beaten Out of him...But this Tells REED that Pac-Mayweather AIN'T Happening...



REED:mj:

 

:crafty: Yes, I did indeed notice, Reed appeared to be a proud stalwart in the beginning, with a sound and irrefuteable base for argument,.. but ..mysteriously, his contributions,..kinda.....dissapeared,..around about the announcement of the first press conference at Cowboys stadium,.. Reed had a susceptible moment of persuasion, like that of the Texas commission.

 

YES!!!...

REED Willingly COMPROMISED the Greater Good of the Boxing WORLD to Satisfy his Own PERSONAL Desire of Having "The Best Fighter in the World Pound for Pound", Fighting in his Backyard...

& Come October, REED will Do the Shit AGAIN!!!...


REED:hammert:

 

:laughing: ,... the truth will set Reed free,.. honourable, even if dishonourable.

But, it was nice having you as part of the crusade initially,.. Reed will be missed.