Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
When Pacquiao refused Mayweather's drug tests, there were many posters who denounced Pacquiao as a cheater, without a scintilla of evidence that he used a banned substance. His refusal of drug tests alone made him a cheater. Here, we have two boxers that were actually caught with banned substances in their bodies, and those same people deny any meaningful wrongdoing and act apologist. "We should let Peterson and Berto prove their cases first before we jump to conclusions," they warn.

If Pacquiao were caught with synthetic testosterone in his system, and it came out that naturally he had lower-than-average levels of testosterone, would his situation be viewed as Peterson's? If Pacquiao tested positive for nandrolene, and denied steroid use, alleging that it must be a result of contaminated supplements, would he be accorded the same latitude as Berto?
No, everybody has a right to a defence - Including Pacquiao if he was caught taking anything. Although to be fair, his refusal to take the tests and then to test positive would be looked at more unfavourably by the public than the people who were pushing for it and then got caught in my opinion.

An interesting thing to note as well is that Nandrolone is one of the worst peds to take if you are being tested - It has an 18 month clearance time and anyone with any limited knowledge of PED's would know this. So it always baffles me when idiots are caught with Nandrolone. Same stuff Toney and Roy Jones were caught for.

So it could very well be that Berto is clean as a whistle right now and has been for over a year..but if he took Nandrolone within the last 18 months, these tests can detect the metabolites still in his body. Very foolish.

That's why it stands to reason that Berto thought he was absolutely fine volunteering for these tests. He's probably been clean for a while but didn't bank on nandrolone having such a long clearance time.