Im sorry but texas is a terrible place to fight considering they dont drug test

[Hasha]

it means both sides could use whatever "PED" they have in their disposal, therefore making it an even playing field.

anyways, i agree with that guy... i don't watch boxing to bitch about how crappy the testing is...

could...doesn't necessarily mean would...not everyone believes in using peds..

so you basically don't care if a guy cheats to win...good for you..

[AKATheMack]

no testing = even playing field? Please elaborate..

With no testing procedures in place there is 0 chance that either fighter is duping the testers.

[Sin City]

proof was posted yesterday..and im sure its on the way now

I'd be glad to see it.

& let's not forget that the only reason this fight isn't in Vegas is because Nevada rejected Margarito's reinstatement application.

[infamous larryx]

I'd be glad to see it.

& let's not forget that the only reason this fight isn't in Vegas is because Nevada rejected Margarito's reinstatement application.

understandable

[AKATheMack]

could...doesn't necessarily mean would...not everyone believes in using peds..

so you basically don't care if a guy cheats to win...good for you..

If everyone has the same opportunity the playing field is level.

[Ryannn]

could...doesn't necessarily mean would...not everyone believes in using peds..

so you basically don't care if a guy cheats to win...good for you..

i wasn't saying that... i was explaining to your ******ed ass what that poster meant by his post cause you have problems with comprehension.

[T.Horton]

i still find it laughable that we care about this testing crap simply because Floyd Mayweather brought it up. :lmao:

The only thing that Mayweather could EVER advise me on is boxing and how to smack a chick without leaving bruises.

[SonnyboyReturns]

I'd be glad to see it.

& let's not forget that the only reason this fight isn't in Vegas is because Nevada rejected Margarito's reinstatement application.

Read this:

[IMDAZED]

I'd be glad to see it.

& let's not forget that the only reason this fight isn't in Vegas is because Nevada rejected Margarito's reinstatement application.

Pacquiao-Mayweather debacle beginning of change in boxing's drug culture?
Posted Jan. 22, 2010 at 12:17pm
By Mark Zeigler
Buzz up!
Usually, when athletes came to Victor Conte and his BALCO empire for help taking performance-enhancing drugs and evading detection, Conte would carefully research their sport’s anti-doping program first -- scrutinize its banned substance list, examine when and where and how often urine or blood samples would be collected, determine which laboratories would test them using what type of equipment -- and devise a detailed plan to beat it.

When boxer Shane Mosley and his handlers approached him in the summer of 2003, Conte didn’t waste his time.

They told him Mosley might be tested the day before the September fight in Las Vegas and immediately after it. That’s all Conte needed to know, all he needed to hear. No reason to sift through pages and pages of drug protocols, or sleuth out the calibration levels of a lab’s high resolution mass spectrometer, or calculate clearance times of detectable substances in case of an unannounced test during pre-fight training.

“That’s announced testing,” the doping guru says. “That’s IQ testing. If that’s all they do, why do I need to find out what’s on the banned list? And I never did bother.

“Boxing’s testing program is beyond a joke. It’s worthless.”

Conte had that thought in the summer of 2003, when he loaded up the 32-year-old Mosley with endurance-boosting erythropoietin (EPO) and a ****tail of other verboten substances for what would be a landmark 12-round decision over Oscar De La Hoya. The difference now is that more and more people are questioning boxing’s commitment to anti-doping as well.

For that, thank the demise of the March 13 superfight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. presumably because the former refused to meet the latter’s demands about pre-fight drug testing. Mayweather wanted regular urine and blood testing in the months, weeks, even days leading up the fight, similar to the anti-doping protocols most Olympic athletes face; Pacquiao agreed to some provisions and refused others. No fight.

So the public doesn’t get the epic clash it has been clamoring for. The sport doesn’t get a much-needed infusion of mainstream attention. The two boxers and their promoters don’t get preposterously rich, and Las Vegas doesn’t get a respite from the recession. But doping and boxing suddenly find themselves in the same sentence and that alone, Conte and others say, may be the greatest legacy of Pacquiao-Mayweather, regardless if they ever meet inside the ropes.

“Whether he meant to or not, Floyd has shown that the process is tainted and it’s going to be hard to overlook now,” says Margaret Goodman, the former chief ringside physician for Nevada and an outspoken critic of the sport’s anti-doping policies. “You just can’t ignore it any longer. There just is no rationale.”

Adds Conte: “I see this potentially as an opportunity to improve the effectiveness of drug testing. And here’s why I think this is so important for boxing and MMA: When you increase speed and power, you’re also increasing potential damage to the opponent. Crushing a baseball is one thing. Crushing a guy’s brain is another.”

* * *

Keith Kizer is the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which oversees professional boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and other forms of “unarmed combat” in the state. He is talking about the commission’s drug testing program.

“You have to be vigilant,” Kizer says. “And I think we are.”

Are they?

It depends on your perspective, depends where in the realm of relativity you sit. Pro boxing has no national or international governing body that mandates drug testing, leaving it to individual states in this country. And compared to most states, Nevada indeed is vigilant.

Texas , for instance. Instead of Mayweather in Las Vegas , Pacquiao will fight March 13 against Joshua Clottey at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium outside Dallas . The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation will oversee it.

Its anti-doping program?

Essentially there isn’t one. The state has the authority to demand urine testing for certain performance-enhancing substances “with probable cause,” according to TDLR spokesperson Susan Stanford. Without probable cause to suspect Pacquiao or Clottey are juiced up (neither has failed a past drug test), no drug testing is required to license the fight.


Oh, and they had TX lined up from the beginning. All that other **** regarding the license was for show. There were several articles with Arum stating Texas would be the site. I'm sure you need "proof" though since you still haven't figured out how to do research.

[V.WEBB]

BTW who's in the picture underneath your name?

Manny Pacquiao