Juan Manuel Marquez, clean or not?

[Kirkland Laing]

I enjoyed seeing Pacquiao go down the way he did but at the same time the first time I saw Juan Ma ripped I had started to wonder what was going on. To have that shady conditioning coach in his corner and all. I really really really hope there are no surprises coming December 17th when the results are up. What do you guys think?

Juan Manuel Marquez says "I am a clean fighter," according to report - ESPN

he said he's for olympic style testing.

So why not do it then? If you're going to hire a guy who is a known steroid dealer and you suddenly start looking like a Mexican Arnold Schwarzenegger then people are going to ask questions.

None of these guys are for Olympic-style drug testing, not even Mayweather. All they have to do to undergo Olympic-style testing -- that's 24/7, 365 days a year, not just in the two month buildup to a fight like Mayweather has started doing -- is to let VADA test them. VADA will do it for free, it won't cost them a penny. VADA were the people who caught Peterson and Berto.

The only boxer who has signed up with VADA is Donaire. That's it.

Drug testing by the Las Vegas commission and other state commissions is more of an IQ test than a drug test. Even the head guy at Vegas admits passing it is as easy as crossing the street. It's only a piss test on the night of the fight, you'd have to be a complete idiot to fail it.

Did you forget who JMM was fighting? Why take the tests that your opponent won't? Roach raised his concerns, not Marquez so the onus falls on Roach to request them, not Marquez's camp.

I think both guys are taking them. The onus is on every top boxer. If you're being accused of cheating it's the easiest thing in the world to put that to bed. You can sign up with VADA. If you're earning what these guys are you can pay a company to random test you once a week out of your own pocket and it's just a training expense. But it'd prove you were clean. Employing a known steroid dealer and putting that kind of muscle on at 39 while you're doing hours of cardio every day and then volunteering to take any test the week of the fight is just taking the piss.