UKAD say Tony Thompson failed a drug test for the 2nd Price fight

UKAD: Thompson Failed Drug Test After David Price KO - Boxing News

Price only learned of this on Sunday. UKAD say it's taken so long to come out because Thompson has filed appeals.

Really sad

I do not think it would have made a huge difference.

Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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He also was found cheating against Pulev.

How do you think hes been so active etc for a man of his age and shape?

This is from the decision.

http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-r...ecision/a/6791

18. Between August and November 2013, UKAD contacted Mr Thompson on numerous occasions to request that he provided the information required to apply for a TUE. Mr Thompson submitted various documents; including a partially completed TUE application form submitted on 20 September 2013, a note from the Alexandria Healthcare Centre dated 23 September 2013 confirming that he had been diagnosed with hypertension, and a letter from Alexandria Healthcare Centre dated 11 November 2013 confirming that he was being seen for hypertension. Upon receipt of each of these documents, UKAD advised Mr Thompson that he had not yet provided sufficient information to allow UKAD to forward his application for a TUE to the TUE committee.
19. By November 2013, Mr Thompson still had not submitted a satisfactorily completed TUE application.
20. In consequence, UKAD sent a Notice of Charge to Mr Thompson dated 26 November 2013 ("the Charge Letter"), outlining that UKAD believed he had committed an ADRV contrary to Article 2.1 of the Anti-Doping Rules, based on the presence of the prohibited substance hydrochlorothiazide in the urine sample he provided on 6 July 2013. The Charge Letter explained that pursuant to Article 7.7 of the Anti-Doping Rules, he was subject to a provisional suspension effective from the date of the letter, i.e. 26 November 2013.
21. Mr Thompson was asked to provide a response to the Charge Letter by 6 December 2013, and to inform UKAD whether he wished to continue with his TUE application. It was clear to UKAD from further e-mail correspondence that he still wished to do so, and he was therefore given a new deadline of 10 January 2014 to submit his application.
22. Although this deadline was missed, there was continued communication between the parties. This included a telephone call between UKAD and Mr Thompson's physician Dr Lena Tran on 25 March 2014, for which Mr Thompson was also present. The next day, UKAD e-mailed Mr Thompson to confirm what was discussed with Dr Tran, namely that she would provide Mr Thompson with his blood pressure records and an explanation as to why he had switched to medication containing hydrochlorothiazide. Dr Tran subsequently e-mailed UKAD on 15 April 2014, attaching information relevant to Mr Thompson's TUE application. However, UKAD determined that this information was inadequate and requested actual blood pressure readings with dates. In an e-mail to UKAD dated 29 April 2014, Sydnee Thompson (Mr Thompson's wife, acting in her capacity as his agent) stated that despite chasing up Dr Tran for this further information, she had failed to provide it.
23. Further correspondence continued between the parties. However, by June 2014 Mr
Thompson still had not submitted a completed TUE application. UKAD therefore referred -5-

I don't doubt it. This is a dirty sport and I think we'd all be shocked if we knew how many of our favorite (and not so favorite) fighters were taking PEDs.

Shame.

He should be banned.

Whether price would have lost or not those losses should not count on his record.

Hes a cheater.

Thompson should be banned from boxing!
If UKAD is supposedly protecting fighters in the UK it's doing a terrible job! Two years later and the issue finally comes out? That's BS!
The UKAD should have a immediate response and allow the cheater to prove his innocence immediately. Two weeks is enough time to respond not two years!

That's a shame, results of these tests should be made known immediately

He was also banned for a year by the Austrian boxing authorities for cheating against pulev. I think we can dismiss all his recent wins over the last few years.

Makes you wonder if he required PEDs to "break his wife's hip"

I don't really feel that whatever he was using was that big of a deal in the rematch.

In the 2nd fight, IMO you saw Price fall apart more than you saw a great performance out of Thompson.

David Price was the guy who couldn't close the show, he was the guy who gassed out after 3 or 4 rounds and mentally collapsed.

If it was a tough fight that went into the later rounds, you can concede that the drugs might have given Thompson an edge. But it didn't - Price was just dog shit that night.

Erik Morales was doping against Danny Garcia in their second fight and got absolutely destroyed.

Thompson beat Solis too and we will find out that was on drugs too 2017.

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I don't really feel that whatever he was using was that big of a deal in the rematch.

In the 2nd fight, IMO you saw Price fall apart more than you saw a great performance out of Thompson.

David Price was the guy who couldn't close the show, he was the guy who gassed out after 3 or 4 rounds and mentally collapsed.

If it was a tough fight that went into the later rounds, you can concede that the drugs might have given Thompson an edge. But it didn't - Price was just dog shit that night.

Erik Morales was doping against Danny Garcia in their second fight and got absolutely destroyed.

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Thompson nearly got splattered himself in round two but had enough about him to get off the floor and keep fighting. If anything they helped him more in the rematch!!

Doping is bad enough but just as bad is a system set up to expose and prevent it losing it in the red tape and Thompson meanwhile collecting 4 paydays.

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Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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Funny how you and Peeniflicker , our resident Flomo hipsters, can't wait to jump on a guy who has never even tested positive in Pacman, and yet seem not in the slightest bit bothered by a proven heavyweight juicer. It may not have made a difference, and I don't really give a fudge, but at least be consistent lads.

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Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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Funny how you and Peeniflicker , our resident Flomo hipsters, can't wait to jump on a guy who has never even tested positive in Pacman, and yet seem not in the slightest bit bothered by a proven heavyweight juicer. It may not have made a difference, and I don't really give a fudge, but at least be consistent lads.

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2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

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Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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Funny how you and Peeniflicker , our resident Flomo hipsters, can't wait to jump on a guy who has never even tested positive in Pacman, and yet seem not in the slightest bit bothered by a proven heavyweight juicer. It may not have made a difference, and I don't really give a fudge, but at least be consistent lads.

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2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

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2 Years,? 2 months,? 2 days. Still positive.

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Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

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Originally Posted by ruthless rocco

Sounds like bullshit to me.

2 years to reveal the failed test...?

And yeah. Wouldn't have made a difference unless Thompson's alleged PEDs directly affected Price's glass jaw. Ha!

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Funny how you and Peeniflicker , our resident Flomo hipsters, can't wait to jump on a guy who has never even tested positive in Pacman, and yet seem not in the slightest bit bothered by a proven heavyweight juicer. It may not have made a difference, and I don't really give a fudge, but at least be consistent lads.

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2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

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2 Years,? 2 months,? 2 days. Still positive.

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That's a bullshit system if they're just breaking the news now...

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Originally Posted by Beanflicker

I don't really feel that whatever he was using was that big of a deal in the rematch.

In the 2nd fight, IMO you saw Price fall apart more than you saw a great performance out of Thompson.

David Price was the guy who couldn't close the show, he was the guy who gassed out after 3 or 4 rounds and mentally collapsed.

If it was a tough fight that went into the later rounds, you can concede that the drugs might have given Thompson an edge. But it didn't - Price was just dog shit that night.

Erik Morales was doping against Danny Garcia in their second fight and got absolutely destroyed.

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I don't think the outcome of Price vs Thompson II would have been different whether Thompson was doping or not.
The thing that pisses me off is the fact that decisions were being made about Price's career while UKAD sat on information that should been released as soon as UKAD learned about it. I can only imagine how Price must feel about that crock of shit!

Agree that its strange it could take this long.. Wouldn't any fighter who has failed before have just filed an appeal then? It's not like Thompson has a bunch of pull or anything. I do remember him talking to the media around this time, saying that drugs should just be legalized because you never know who is using anyways and the testing doesn't work. Pretty brass thing to have said if he was currently using something that's for sure, maybe the guy has a sense of irony.

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Funny how you and Peeniflicker , our resident Flomo hipsters, can't wait to jump on a guy who has never even tested positive in Pacman, and yet seem not in the slightest bit bothered by a proven heavyweight juicer. It may not have made a difference, and I don't really give a fudge, but at least be consistent lads.

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Never said I wasn't bothered by it. I don't condone the use of PEDs in boxing. All I said was I doubt it had much effect on the fight, because it wasn't a great performance by Thompson so much as it was a shit performance by Price.

I'm also not one of these retards who's shocked when a guy tests positive. It's a dirty game, it's a brutal game, and guys are always going to try to get a leg up on the other. ESPECIALLY when drug tests have been USELESS for so long and the odds of getting caught were very slim.

UKAD is a joke! How can an anti-doping org. hold back information about a cheater for two years and continue to say they are protecting fighters? Somebody explain that to me. Maybe they're confused about which fighters they are protecting, the cheaters or the non-cheaters?
It's unbelievable!

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UKAD is a joke! How can an anti-doping org. hold back information about a cheater for two years and continue to say they are protecting fighters? Somebody explain that to me. Maybe they're confused about which fighters they are protecting, the cheaters or the non-cheaters?
It's unbelievable!

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Yeah that's brutal man.

And if you think about it, what's the good of them releasing the info even a day after the fight? The damage has already been done, a guy who was using banned PEDs has already gotten into the ring and assaulted another man under the influence of said PEDs.

That's why I love this new era that's coming in of random drug testing before the fight. I know Lamont Peterson got busted before the Khan rematch, and there have been several UFC fights scrapped over the last few years because someone got busted in a pre-fight test.

In an ideal world, Thompson would have been randomly tested, got popped before the fight and Price wouldn't have even gotten in the ring with him.

Apparently this took so long to come out because it was in court. Thompson denying (obviously) claiming the positive test came from a prescribed drug.

Thompson has tried to justify the failed test by suggesting that everyone does it so just make it legal.

Tony Thompson Explains Why Doping Should Be Legal - Boxing News

He's probably right about the widespread cheating in the sport.

Not so subtle shot at Wlad there too, I reckon.

Stupid excuse and what happens if he kill someone in the ring? He should face manslaughter charges.

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Stupid excuse and what happens if he kill someone in the ring? He should face manslaughter charges.

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Tony Thompson goes to the UK, fights while using a banned substance, tests positive for banned substance by UKAD, gives UKAD the finger, tells UKAD to fuck off, and continues fighting like nothing happened.
If Tony Thompson can lead the UKAD around by the nose like that, doesn't something need to change about the way the UKAD does business?

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Stupid excuse and what happens if he kill someone in the ring? He should face manslaughter charges.

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Tony Thompson goes to the UK, fights while using a banned substance, tests positive for banned substance by UKAD, gives UKAD the finger, tells UKAD to fuck off, and continues fighting like nothing happened.
If Tony Thompson can lead the UKAD around by the nose like that, doesn't something need to change about the way the UKAD does business?

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He will not be allowed to fight here again and Joshua is ready to kick his ass.