Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Geeez... enough with the money excuse already. There's plenty of money in boxing. Set aside an appropriate amount for testing. If not, then let's watch the sport continue to suffer from increased PED use until a high profile fighter gets killed or brain damaged. Then... the calls to ban boxing or clean it up will be ringing off the rafters and something will have to be done. Better now than to wait until that happens.

It's not an excuse, it's a serious question that needs a serious, logical answer. There's a lot of moving parts to this machine.

Saying "MAKE THE PROMOTERS PAY THEY'RE RICH WHO CARES" is not a logical plan. Yeah there's a lot of money in boxing, but who's pocket is it coming out of?

And the brain damage thing... fighters have been getting brain damaged and killed since boxing has been around! You don't need steroids to kill/brain damage a guy in the ring, that's been proven time and time again over the last 100 years. Again, that's something you can't quantify.

The theory has always been that punchers are born, not made. For instance, Stefan Bonner was juiced to the gills in his UFC fight against Anderson Silva, and at one point Anderson dropped his hands and let Stefan hit him with flush punches to the face with no effect. Steroids aren't turning Sven Ottke into Julian Jackson, that's just rediculous.