Fair play to Khan.
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Originally posted by Assassin View Post
How is that sour grapes? It was quite gracious considering.
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Christ, he is absolutely ****ing relentless. He never shuts up about him, day after day, month after month which is probably why he never got the fight in the first place. Genuinely never known anything like it. He's beyond obsessed. At least now he's got no excuse for ducking Kell and we'll hopefully get to see an interesting fight.Comment
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Originally posted by RichC View PostOriginally posted by Tee View Post How is that sour grapes? It was quite gracious considering.
Surprised at the **** thrown his way tbh, he may not be the best boxer in the world, but i wouldn't consider him to be a big headed boxer that shoots his mouth off consistently, which is often the case in this game.
Obviously as a boxer he has to publicly back himself, but i don't think he does it in an offensive or cocky way. Just my op.Last edited by Vermilion; 05-08-15, 08:07 PM.Comment
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Would be hilarious if Berto managed to land a hail Mary punch on Mayweather jnr after getting the fight due to being the "safe" choice .I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.
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This is sour grapes because Hugweather has taken on a lesser/poorer/mediorce boxer at the same level as Khan and it isnt him.Originally posted by Tee View Post How is that sour grapes? It was quite gracious considering.Comment
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Oh dear Kell Brook.
Anyone wanting to try and continue to defend Hearn and Brook choices of opponents?
Khan, for all the stick he received on here, hasn't fought against ****e like this for a long, long time.Comment
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Who's he fighting ?Comment
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It's looking like Diego Chaves.
Mosley wants it though.The times they are a changin'.Comment
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He's fighting ****e. 2 fights before the end of the year apparently. Chaves and then another ahem....mando in December.
No sign of Rios or Bradley thoughComment
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Kell Brook will defend his IBF World Welterweight title against Diego Chaves at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on 24 October.Comment
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ALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. Berto | Episode 1
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ALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. Berto | Episode 2
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I see Jamie McDonnell won again on Saturday. Fantastic of him to do it twice in a row abroad. Doesn't get nearly enough credit.Comment
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On Saturday, Floyd Mayweather will face Andre Berto in what he has repeatedly insisted will be his final fight. However, long after that event, the undefeated welterweight could continue to have questions asked of him about what took place before his fight with Manny Pacquiao, and about his relationship with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
According to a report by Thomas Hauser of SB Nation, Mayweather received two intravenous injections, adding up to 750 milliliters of fluid, the day before the May 2 fight, which he won by unanimous decision in Las Vegas. The fluids that the boxer’s camp said were in the injections, mixtures of saline solution and vitamins, would not have been inherently illegal, but the quantity, in that time frame, could have masked another substance and would have been in violation of rules set forth by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Furthermore, representatives of USADA, which is supposed to abide by WADA rules, became aware of the injections when they went to administer a drug test to Mayweather, but the agency failed to report the incident to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which sanctioned the fight. The NSAC was only made aware of the injections nearly three weeks after the bout, and even then, USADA claimed that it had granted Mayweather a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE), basically a get-out-of-jail-free card, which some experts quoted by Hauser found very odd, at the very least.
Victor Conte, who gained notoriety as a peddler of performance-enhancing drugs in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case, but who has since become an anti-PED advocate, had this to say:
“There are strict criteria for the granting of a TUE. You don’t hand them out like Halloween candy. And this sort of IV use is clearly against the rules. … It’s very suspicious to me. I can tell you that IV drugs clear an athlete’s system more quickly than drugs that are administered by subcutaneous injection. So why did USADA make this decision? Why did they grant something that’s prohibited?”
Bob Bennett, who has been executive director of the NSAC since April 2014, and who was previously an FBI agent, told Hauser, “The TUE for Mayweather’s IV — and the IV was administered at Floyd’s house, not in a medical facility, and wasn’t brought to our attention at the time — was totally unacceptable.”
Other concerns raised by the lengthy report for SB Nation include:
The USADA, a non-governmental agency that receives about $10 million in annual funding from Congress, appeared to have given favorable treatment to some boxers, including not just Mayweather but Erik Morales, who in 2012 tested positive for a PED and reportedly failed several more tests, although the New York State Athletic Commission was not informed of the failed tests in a timely manner.
Mayweather’s camp has claimed that the fighter is subject to testing “365-24-7 by USADA,” but in reality, he determines when the testing period begins. In the case of the Berto fight, that began when the event, which had been rumored for weeks, was officially announced in early August, by which point Mayweather potentially could have undergone an assortment of treatments following the Pacquiao bout.
As Conte put it, “I can’t tell you what Floyd Mayweather is and isn’t doing. What he could be doing is this. The fight is over. First, he uses these drugs for tissue repair. Then he can stay on them until he announces his next fight, at which time he’s the one who decides when the next round of testing starts. And by the time testing starts, the drugs have cleared his system.”
The drug-testing contract with USADA agreed to by Mayweather and Pacquiao provided for exceptions to WADA rules.
In 2012, Pacquiao’s camp rejected a proposed contract clause that could have allowed USADA to grant a retroactive TUE without notifying the NSAC or the other fighter.
In tests administered to Mayweather by the NSAC for fights in 2011 and 2013, he posted unusually low testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratios, either of which, as another expert described to Hauser, should have served as “a warning flag” for doping.
Another anti-doping agency, VADA, charges less than USADA and offers more stringent tests.
In 46 fights for which it has done testing, USADA acknowledged just one boxer caught with PEDs (Morales), whereas VADA had found three positive results in 18 fights.
Among the fighters VADA flagged for PED use was Berto, in 2012.Comment
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