Comments Thread For: A Ticking Timebomb Lurks in Boxing

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

The names Eubank and Benn are not just associated with British pop culture and nostalgic wars, but they provoke dark memories of tragedies. Chris Eubank Sr had a fight with Michael Watson that left Watson with terrible life-changing injuries, and Nigel Benn had the same thing with Gerald McClellan.
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[REMOVE SHARK 5510]

Boxing has already been blown to pieces long time ago and now fans just try to hold on whats left of it. It's dirty sport and always has been

[Ragga1]

Nothing will happen or change until someone dies in the ring at the hands of a doped up fighter. Boxing really needs one regulatory body to oversee and set the legislation (inc drug testing), and should administer life time bans or at least 3 year bans to fighters who cheat. I can’t see the boxing organisations wanting to lose their power and hold over boxing.

[Toffee]

Who wrote this crap?

Who is pressing for the B sample to be tested?

No-one. At least no-one with credibility. Why do you think it should be tested? It's 99.99% certain it will show the same thing. The B sample test is for Benn, and he's certainly not going to base a defence on that test coming back differently because it won't.

As for the questions about VADA, the BBBofC and so on it's pretty straightforward. The fighters agreed to enrol in VADA and the adverse result was reported to the relevant people (the fighters who paid for that information). The information was used and the teams made a decision using the information they themselves had paid for and further detail from their medical teams. The BBBofC didn't get the results because the VADA testing was nothing to do with them.

As for the 100M analogy, you've just copied what Johnny Nelson said... and it didn't make sense then either. This isn't like an athlete testing positive at the Olympics. It's like an athlete not testing positive at the Olympics, but his team getting an adverse result on their own private testing. The runner would race and if the Olympic testing didn't catch them, their result would stand.

That's why the info didn't go anywhere. It wasn't for anyone else's consumption.

The big question BBBofC should be asking is why UKAD didn't pick this up. They were responsible for testing the athletes and ensuring a drug cheat couldn't enter the ring under the BBBofC's sanction. That system failed spectacularly.

As for cancelling the fight, that's a PR exercise by all concerned rather than one based on 'due process'. I happen to think it's the right call.

[Toffee]

Nothing will happen or change until someone dies in the ring at the hands of a doped up fighter. Boxing really needs one regulatory body to oversee and set the legislation (inc drug testing), and should administer life time bans or at least 3 year bans to fighters who cheat. I can’t see the boxing organisations wanting to lose their power and hold over boxing.

That's exactly the problem.

What happens to Benn now? He's not suspended. He's not even charged with anything. Who is charging him? He could fight next week.

He's absolutely free to fight. He's got questions to answer, but only from a PR perspective.

[tokon]

The main reason this situation is nothing like a 100m race is because it's boxing - people are punching each other in the head! The potential implications of someone being stronger, faster and fitter through drug use make this an entirely different proposition.

[MulaKO]

This fight was compromised from the minute it was announced
Fugh Benn anyway or Eubank for that matter

[BodyBagz]

BPP, please ask a writer to do an article on how many opponents have been injured by a drug user.
What are the ACTUAL effects the drugs have in the ring.

[Oldskoolg]

Both Benn and Hearn should be banned from boxing. Benn because he is a ped user who could have killed someone and Hearn because he constantly makes excuses for his doping fighters

[The Devil Knows Boxing]

EXCELLENT article. Outstanding.