Comments Thread For: Povetkin Says 'Out of Shape' Stiverne Was Looking For a Way Out

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i feel its a classless remark trying to cover for this cheat. he got caught TWICE in his last TWO fights. wbc called the first 1 off and wouldnt sanction this one. if you have ever been in there before you would know how serious this is and not trying to put a spin on it. just my opinion

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Did WADA clear Povetkin?

I'm not defending anything, I'm all about sharing what I've read and that is all. Despite what some may try and project on others.

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Man you're on here trying to do your best spin job, just stop. Who do you work for? How much they paying you? You can pretend you aren't associated with and don't care about Povetkin, but your post show otherwise. Your boy is a cheat, just like most Russians. End of story

Throw your misplaced projections on other people as much as you like. You're wrong in your assumptions. I shared what I'd read.
My mistake was not mentioning WADA. It's not an emotional issue, much as boxingscene is overpopulated with emotional haters. I prefer boxing and sharing things I have experienced, read, heard or learned otherwise about it as experience or spectator.

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Yes it is twice.

He was not 'cleared,' although his promoter used that word and it ended up in some headlines.

But find me a story where the WBC or VADA said he was "cleared." You can't, because they didn't.

The WBC ruled that it wasn't banning him even though he tested positive for meldonium because it couldn't "scientifically prove" at the time that he hadn't ingested it before the ban on the substance was in place -- it did NOT say that he was cleared, that he did no wrong, etc. It said, in effect, that it was a loophole.

The same ruling ALSO SAID that he was going to have to undergo extra testing at his own expense (which wouldn't be the case if he was cleared) AND that if the pending lawsuit between Wilder/DiBella/Rybansky/Povetkin produced evidence that he had ingested meldonium after the ban date, that he would be banned.

FURTHERMORE, the WBC said that if he fails "another test" (note that they did not say a first test, but "another test" -- which he just did fail BTW) that Povetkin will be suspended indefinitely from all WBC-sanctioned events.

If you read all of those conditions and it adds up to "he was cleared" to you, you must be working for his promoter.

Because that's as close to a public statement of "yeah, you got by on a technicality by the skin of your teeth that time, but you know and we know what was going on, so you better take care" ... and he STILL couldn't stay off the juice.

Cheaters gonna cheat.

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Call me hater or whatever as much as you like. I just shared what I'd read. Yes, I said VADA not WADA, and also triggered a knee jerk reaction from emotive posters. But such things aren't my concern. I shared what I'd read, that's all.