Golden Boy Must Lead the Way to Increase Drug Vigilance in Boxing
By Allen Canceran
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“I think what’s going to happen with boxing is, people are now opening their eyes and realizing that, wow, you have two fighters who want to bash their brains in and if one fighter is on something, it can be devastating,” De La Hoya said. “It should be mandatory that fighters go through these extensive tests to make sure that they’re clean because it’s our life up in that ring and we can’t risk that.”– Oscar De la Hoya
It seems like the latest attempt of Oscar to inject the topic of increased drug testing in boxing is nothing more but a dig on Pacquiao for refusing to submit to Olympic style drug testing. If Oscar really meant what he was saying then his words should apply to all of Golden Boy fighters and not only to fights where you see a Mayweather name in there. While Oscar is harping to this tune, a few years back his CEO, Richard Schaefer was dancing to a different one. Schaefer, on the condition set by the Zab Judah camp on Mosley for random blood testing was adamant that they would not submit to any kind of extra testing other than those already mandated by the NSAC. This division of opinions within Golden Boy Promotions is reeking with hypocrisy from foot to mouth that it sounds like a disease.
This latest stance of GBP can be blamed on Floyd Mayweather Jr’s reluctance to fight Manny Pacquiao if there were no Olympic style drug testing agreed to. It would be highly suspicious that Floyd never thought about Olympic style testing not until he was going to face Pacquiao. If I was a conspiracist I would think that Floyd Mayweather demanding Olympic style testing to Mosley is part of a continuum from the aborted Pacquiao fight. One has to save face right?
The bottom line is if GBP is really serious about increased drug testing in boxing it has to step up and volunteer ALL OF ITS FIGHTERS for Olympic style testing. There are a lot of GBP fights coming. Some of those coming soon include:
Jan. 29, Campillo vs. Shumenov
Feb. 25, Victor Ortiz vs. Hector Alatorre
Feb. 26, Antonio Escalante vs. Miguel Roman
Feb. 30, Daniel Ponce De Leon vs. Orlando Cruz
And all the Fight Night Club fights
So far I haven’t heard of Olympic style drug testing for those fights mentioned above. And I am getting impatient that Oscar and Golden Boy is not demanding or including random blood testing in them.
Mosley agreeing to Olympic style testing against Mayweather is not enough compelling reason for Pacquiao to acquiesce to such in a future fight with Floyd. We all know Mosley admitted to steroid and EPO use. It is just right that every fight of Shane should have random blood testing. So it should go beyond Mosley and must be seen on all GBP fighters then we can start to appreciate the sincerity of Golden Boy.
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Boxing writers can be easily fooled by ODLH or they are just getting paid to write and article about good things that GBP has done? We all know just ODLH is a scam and we are fooled by him and his people many times so why on earth we believe in what they say now?? Once a scam is always a scam. Mosley-Mayweather fight will never happen. This fight was just publicized to keep Mayweather’s name in the mainstream media
great article! very valid points. but de la hoya and schaefer are so hypocrite that they would just ignore these points as usual.
Yeah right, if GBP is really serious on the olympic style drug testing they would have filed a request for it being mandatory to all future fights in all divisions/categories but I think they just made it as an excuse to avoid Pacquiao
OSCAR SHOULD SIGN THE WAIVER, SHOW US THAT YOU REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.
Pacquiao should simply ignore ODLH and GBP whose words are self-serving. These are hypocrites. Manny should stick to his statement that he will honor the sanctioning body’s regulations and not a boxer or some promotions company’s stipulations.
you nailed it! Golden Boy should be exposed!!!
totally agree!………gbp knows that Pacquiao had bad experience with blood testing. GBP knows that Pacman is not comfortable with 10 oz. gloves. Pacquiao was upset when a blood was drawn from him before the Morales fight. He was also upset that he was forced to wear 10 oz gloves against Morales. Pac lost that fight. Pac sued his promoter after that fight and GBP immediately signed Pac. Obviously, gbp knows Pac’s weakness, and they and Floyd wanted pac to wear 10 oz gloves, not to mention the random blood test
show us the epo, golden boy!!! show us the way.
I Think GBP/Oscar DelaBoya are on steriods.You’re correct mr.Allen that all of their fighters should be subject to ramdom blood testing cause “Boxing is a LIfe Treatening Sports”.Not only on Mayweather fights,(Anyway it is correct to inject blood random testing in all his fights cause they are family of drug pushers/users,Mwahahahahh).If they can do that in all their fighters,maybe thats the time all will follow,their sincerety (blood testing) is what other want to feel.GOT IT MR DELABOYA,MWAHAHAHAHHHHHH……
Mr. Canceran,
Those are very good points you pointed out up there. I agree, GBP should set the example if they really are in it “for the good of boxing”, otherwise its just an indirect attack against Manny Pacquiao, which it really is anyway. Thank you for your objective view on this subject, not like those GBP hack writers like Michael Rosenthal and Ron Borges.
OSKEE, sign the darn waiver already!
all these taking the moral high ground and clean up boxing is so pathetic. thats how Pac has shook the world. hes a killer in the ring and to some people thats just a bitter pill. odlh? remember how he looked on that stool? thats why theyre taking the fight off the ring. pencil pushing punks.
For a start, de la Hoya should sign that Hauser waiver. Otherwise, he should shut up.
Excellent point, Allen! If GBP does not “lead the way” as you suggested, it only proves Oscar de la Hoya’s hypocrisy.
I would agree on this article about being vigilance on drug testing. I might not care who is fighting but as a human being seeing or hearing that someone get hurt because a boxer increase strength beyond his natural power (punching power) can absolutely hurt someone. And you cannot control how much strength you can apply to the opponent. Every goal of a boxer is to knock the opponent with a glove and you can see, one punch can get you a cut in the face. A boxer with gloves can do that. Maybe the gloves don’t have a lot of padding or we all becaming stronger.
This is for you Oscar, GBP and Mayweathers..
Please read..
Winky Wright: ‘I can’t bet against Pacquiao anymore’
By Geoffrey Ciani, The Mushroom Mag, Sun, 31 Jan 2010
Regarding his views on the proposed Olympic style drug testing in the failed negotiations for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather:
“If I’m a fighter, and I’m abiding by the rules of boxing and everything is okay then just because another person tells me to do something else, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to take some extra tests just because you say to do it. The rules are we can’t do this, we can’t do that, I’m passing all the rules, I’m taking all the drug tests that they ask me, I’m doing all of that then it’s okay. But by your standard, you want me to take extra tests? Why should I do that because you said it? You’re not going to do anything I tell you to do extra. So I don’t feel that I should have done it. Floyd’s my man, but I just feel that should have still made that fight.”
That is what Oscar want so we will see but before anything else he should sign waiver suggested by Hauser.
GBP should but won’t do it now.Pacquiao is out of the picture he is trying to paint.Very unstable proposition if a lot of oppositions will put him in the corner of the same.Like the “waiver”,so no compromse if somebody will release his owndrug-testing history in public.It is all a calculated press release that won’t be pursue in the end.
Hey Oscar, you did very well as a boxer. Now its time to do good as a man. Make someone up there proud..
Oscar is so jealous! When he was punished by manny and sits on that stupid chair he was like a little girl crying!
Hey Oscar if you really think that boxing needs this extra “random blood testing” why you didn’t sign that waiver? afraid to expose yourself that you use steriods>?
You can not implement Olympic style drug testing in boxing because it is invasive, intrusive, disruptive and unsafe. Dr. Waddle or whatever of WADA states that you can not get infected by drawing blood. Really doctor, do you really believe that? It is time now for the ABC to make a stand on testing and adopt a common standard of testing and a uniform list of banned substances for all boxers fighting in the US to be strictly adhered to and not be dictated by an individual or promotional company as they so wishes. You have to put your foot down and take the cudgels.
Boxing hates Mayweather that is the only reason people are taking this stance. If Manny Pacquiao had demanded for extra testing and Mayweather said NO! Orin Hatch or some other senator would have already created a bill in congress!! Face it when it comes to saftey and fair play there is no stone that should be left uncovered before entering the ring. Anyone using PEDS is a sport like boxing and MMA should not only be banned from the sport but also jailed like Panama Lewis And Luis Resto.
mosley agreed to fight mayweather cause he wants to beat his ass. and he’s going to say yes to every demand by floyd cause he does not have any bargaining chip to begin with. its his biggest last pay day so whatever KFC’s demands (KFC = Kenducky Floyd Chicken) he will take it. even if you say they take a gallon of blood from him he will still take it. he has no choice he wants to fight KFC and wants the big paycheck before retiring. unlike pacquiao he does not need mayweather to get a large purse for a fight.
You are absolutely correct! We should never believe any pronouncements coming out of the mouth of Oscar De La HoYaPocrite!!
Start drawing yourself golden boy…which you didn’t do yourself before. Then Floyd has a lot brain than you are for imposing such thing to make boxing a very clean profession. Floyd should be your boss. We will await that every boxer of yours will all be random test every fight. You are just sour graping for not having the pacman -floyd fight earlier. And for not having pacman under your stable. hehe…viva pacman!
These two fighters deserved to be tested rigorously and not pacquiao. Shane is a proven steroid user and floyd is a cheater in weight and a xylocaine user to numb his hands. That is enough to raise suspicion that they will do everything to gain an unfair advantage to their opponent. Therefore this fight will be the fight of two cheaters in the game. Who will emerge as the best cheater of all time?! I bet mayweather would like to add that to his 0. Mayweather tries to discredit pacquiaos achievement by insunating that the only way he acn succeed is by the use of drugs. That is plain jealousy and envious that an asian boxer is greater than him and dominating boxing. He says pacquiao started as and ordinary boxer and became extra ordinary! what a lameduck! pacquiao went straight to professional boxing and had to fight tough and best boxers along the way to earn money and respect. Mayweather looks extraordinary in his early fights because he was forced fed with bum boxers as he is protected by his promoters, pacquiao does not have the same protection early in his career. Mayweather said he wants to clean up boxing, why did he keep silent when mosley was found using steroids? and did not ask marquez to have blood test? what a hypocrite! what is he scared of pacquiao who he said is ordinary and one dimensional? He is afraid that pacquiao will reconfigure his face! hahaha and oscar why does he hide his NSAC test results? what is he hiding? why not sign a waiver to disclose it? and again why did they not said anything when mosley was found cheating? WOW
oscar dela hoya, who pretend to be a promoter genius,but seems to look as idiot of boxing! he is not abiding on his own rules!
Oscar, the Goden Hypocrite, says something he does’nt want to do himself. Kentucky Floyd Chicken should clean his team before asking anybody to be honest. These people dictate other boxers as if they’re the boxing commissioners with their own rules and regulations for other to do.
Oscar, the Golden Hypocrite, says something he does’nt want to do himself. Kentucky Floyd Chicken should clean his team before asking anybody to be honest. These people dictate other boxers as if they’re the boxing commissioners with their own rules and regulations for other to do.
Oscar, poor loser, stop saying things you do not want to do yourself. You cannot fool the whole nation because they know you are such a hypocrite.
Oscar was challenge by Arum to sign a waiver to open up his records? I think Oscar did not respond.
Always remember what Abraham Lincoln had said ” You can fool some people all the time, all the people at a time, but never all the people all the time”. It is really very hard to cover up a lie with another lie… and because of this, a CHAMPION has to bow down and agree to all the terms and conditions coming from a CHALLENGER!!
Well, GBP has to go through all these troubles to save their faces for opening a can of worms. I wonder what kind of “punishment or word slashing”
Floyd, Sr. is receiving from GBP for bringing them into this mess. Also, I wonder what Floyd, Jr. might feel about himself if he’s just being tolerated to all his whims, caprices, and clowning around because GBP is still salivating on the $40M or more on his date with the great Pacquiao. I am sorry, and I hope I’m wrong, to say that it seems GBP is only banking on Floyd, Jr’s name and popularity and not on his true skills. Well, maybe Junior’s might simply say ” you use me, I use you. So who’s using who?”
If DLH wants to clean up everything, he should clean his closet too. I really think he should sign that waiver where he should allow the NSAC to release all his drug testing results. From what I heard, there were reports he failed a test and the NSAC held back the test. Lets see those test results also. And lets go farther and clean up the trainers too. If they have any criminal convictions relating to drugs….they should drug tested too.
Excellent notes.
And a very brilliant diggings on the core of De La Hoya’s outright hypocrasy.
I wonder if this is the effect of his brain turned punching bag and by heavy beating of his coconut in the hands of Pacquiao.
The more he justify this issue the more he expose
himself in colorful hypocrasy.
Hurray for Golden Hypocrite…
The random blood testing should be addressed to the boxing commission and not to the boxers. Its the job of the boxing commission. Its not the problem of the boxers but the concern of the boxing commission.
Yeah right GBP!!!!! NUMBER ONE HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!! CAN’T FOOL US. KARMA IS NOW COMMING TO EFFECT. STEROID ALLEGATION AGAINST PACMAN BACKFIRE N NOW COMES THE LAWSUIT!!!!!! I SEE THAT MILLIONS WILL BE LOST AT YOUR EXPENSE!!!!
Really GBP must lead the way in fighting drug use in boxing?
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Whew, that was the best joke I’ve heard in years!!!!!
why this mf**** floyd the fraud P4P king? not requiring marquez 4 random blood test when they fight @ 144lb? a boxer box almost of his career at 130lb going to 144lb is not questionable 4 steroid who agreed to fight FM?floyd the ducker has something fishy & his the 1 who is hidding something? maybe his hidding a polca dots panty under his pant…..
C’mon Oscar De Lahoy-hoy! What about you, do you think you’re clean? You were so high on drugs, you posed for picture taking wearing a fishnet.
Assuming that the fight between Mosley & Mayweather will gonna be happen, we want to see a LIVE MEDIA COVERAGE of the Random Blood testing between the two boring fighters. We all know that Shame Mosley is the part owner of the GBP Promotions and we suspect that everything will be SET-UP by the people of GBP Promotion. We are in doubt if both fighters will do the Random blood testing 14 days before the fight. We suspect that they will make it appear that they will do it but the truth is that they will do a Random blood testing 30 days before the fight. We the boxing fan should not be cheated & fooled by GBP Promotions again and again because they are well known as the PROFESSIONAL LIARS in BOXING World at this present time.
Widely respected, award-winning boxing writer Thomas Hauser who is also a lawyer, is pressing Oscar De La Hoya to sign a waiver so that the Nevada State Athletic Commission can release the records of drug tests conducted on “The Golden Boy” when he was fighting.
Hauser said “To repeat; this is a golden opportunity for Oscar De La Hoya to show the world how a righteous PED-free fighter acts and remove any hint of suspicion that he himself might not have clean hands” and posed the question “Why doesn’t Oscar simply sign the waiver.”
He said should De La Hoya sign the waiver then “maybe Keith Kizer (the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission) will learn something.”
Hauser also noted that De La Hoya, as mentioned in his article, had tested positive for lidocaine and creatine but was curious to find out from Golden Boy Promotions whether De La Hoya ever tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.” He said this is an issue that “should be resolved in fairness to everyone involved, as well as the Filipino people and boxing fans everywhere.”
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Nice Article! You nailed it!
Thank you for exposing these hypocrites and liars!
Oskie, get out of your closet and sign the waiver!
Fraud, sign the contract already! If you couldn’t tell from your pea brain, you’ve been ambushed by everybody including Oscar, GBP and your own team of advisers!