Thread: Enzo Maccarinelli handed six month drugs ban

The latest boxer to be busted. Enzo Mac handed a 6 month ban for testing positive. Obviously a boxer who is well, well, well on the slide but another former "World" champion none the less.

So...Larry get's 4 years...Enzo gets 6 months..

Sure, you can find what he took in over-the-counter supplements (like Jack3d and HemoRage) but surely a banned substance on their list is a banned substance and should receive the same punishment? It again, also proves the point about the area of PED's being such a grey area. It's banned in competition but ok for the average Joe to use?

BBC Sport - Enzo Maccarinelli handed six month drugs ban

So much variation..doesnt make sense. They should ban all drug users for ten years.

There is a big diffrence between something found in a nasal spray and admitting to taken 13 different substances over a 6 year period including anobolic steriods and human growth hormone. Enzo has taken over 20 drug tests over his career , he bought something out of a magazine which was legal is only crime was not checking the ingredients . Larry was taken banned substances which he knew what they were and the damage they could do to his opponents. There is a big diffrence between the two cases and only an idiot would compare them.

He will take it on the chin,

Total transparency is the only way to go. You take anything on this list, your gone for X amount of time. There cant be different levels of taking the piss, you either are or you aren't. I didnt know isn't good enough.

Originally Posted by Trecco bay

There is a big diffrence between something found in a nasal spray and admitting to taken 13 different substances over a 6 year period including anobolic steriods and human growth hormone. Enzo has taken over 20 drug tests over his career , he bought something out of a magazine which was legal is only crime was not checking the ingredients . Larry was taken banned substances which he knew what they were and the damage they could do to his opponents. There is a big diffrence between the two cases and only an idiot would compare them.

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Originally Posted by Trecco bay

There is a big diffrence between something found in a nasal spray and admitting to taken 13 different substances over a 6 year period including anobolic steriods and human growth hormone. Enzo has taken over 20 drug tests over his career , he bought something out of a magazine which was legal is only crime was not checking the ingredients . Larry was taken banned substances which he knew what they were and the damage they could do to his opponents. There is a big diffrence between the two cases and only an idiot would compare them.

Complete bollocks. You take something on the banned substance list and you're gone should be the rule. Otherwise you can come up with an excuse for every day of the week as to "why" you took it. Larry was only caught for taking one thing on that list too. You're clueless.

Originally Posted by Trecco bay

Enzo has taken over 20 drug tests over his career , he bought something out of a magazine which was legal is only crime was not checking the ingredients .

For that reason...... I'm out!

Sorry, I mean I've got no sympathy.

Originally Posted by Memphis

Total transparency is the only way to go. You take anything on this list, your gone for X amount of time. There cant be different levels of taking the piss, you either are or you aren't. I didnt know isn't good enough.

Exactly - Someone who gets it.

Imagine if our Justice system operated in the same way...

You're saying that PEDs are a 'grey area', but you want black and white punishment?

From what I've heard the packaging didn't even stipulate that it contained this PED. If it's over the counter and doesn't say on the container that it contains a PED surely the company that supplies it should be sued and the fighter should be excused after he has sat out whilst his body clears itself of the drug?

Then more fool him for buying his suppliments from Londis

Originally Posted by AdamGB

Imagine if our Justice system operated in the same way...

You're saying that PEDs are a 'grey area', but you want black and white punishment?

Did you seriously just display your idiocy by comparing our justice system with boxing providing a list of PED's that you are NOT allowed to take? It's not like Larry commited murder and Enzo got shifted for nicking penny sweets. BOTH took something that enhances performance Christ, some people on here..

The LIST isn't a grey area. It's printed in black and white what you can and can't take. It's up to the athlete to check those ingredients.

The grey area I'm talking about is how the public are quick to label one person a "cheat" but then it seems most of you are ok with the PED being in an over the counter supplement?? Most of you are hypocrites - Larry got caught for EPO which provides more oxygen in a fight, Enzo's PED is a weight loss agent and a stimulant which gives you more energy and tunnel vision focus...If anything, Enzo got a double benefit.

Originally Posted by rjj tszyu

From what I've heard the packaging didn't even stipulate that it contained this PED. If it's over the counter and doesn't say on the container that it contains a PED surely the company that supplies it should be sued and the fighter should be excused after he has sat out whilst his body clears itself of the drug?

The ingredients will always stipulate what is contained in the supplement, buddy.

Why did larry admit to taking 13 different substances over 4 years ?