People gave Mayweather a lot of shit he started demanding Olympic-style drug testing outside of the standard testing. The sentiment was "who the fuck is this guy to demand that, that's the commissions job, ect."

Well the sad fact is THE COMMISSIONS ARE RARELY CATCHING THE CHEATERS! Guys using PED's (for the most part) aren't caught with drug tests, they're caught WAY after the fact when the FBI busts a steroid lab and finds the names of famous athletes on receipts. And in this case, if Richardson isn't there watching the wraps being done, Margarito fights with those wraps and whatever the fuck substance was in them.

It's a losing battle, and it's a battle the commissions largely don't want to fight. For most sports, PED's are a victimless crime and it means more money. Not only are they helping athletes accomplish incredible feats while they are in their primes - feats that bring more money to the sport and more money to trickle down to everyone else - it increases their window of earning by allowing them to play at a high level well into their 40s, which is something that was largely unheard of decades ago.

So on one side you have these huge steroid labs, financed by multi-millionaires who cater to multi-million dollar elite athletes who are paying top dollar for substances that are going to make them better athletes and more money. And these multi-millionaires (Victor Conte from BALCO for example) spend their multi-millions developing ways to buck the system and cheat the tests. Look up "the clear". It was a type of steroid synthesized SPECIFICALLY to be undetectable and help athletes cheat the tests.

Then on the other side, you have the commissions, which are organizations funded and controlled by the federal government. With the US's deficit, do you really think Barack Obama is going to divert millions for the commissions to catch up to these labs and stop athletes from taking a substance that's going to help them hit more home runs? Of course not. These commission guys have cushy jobs and want to do the bare minimum to create and illusion of integrity and an even playing field.

The truth is, people by and large don't give a shit. They just want the illusion. Sports fans want to believe in some fairy tale where sports are all about integrity and honest competition, and boxing fans want to believe in nonsense about a warrior's code of honor and all that horse shit. It's nonsense.

Tyson is the best example. There are guys on this board that will say - with the same confidence they would have telling you what country they're from - that Tyson never used PED's. Right, because why would a guy who admitted to cheating drug tests for narcotics with a fake urine sample be suspected of any substance cheating. No, that's impossible. The guy who bit a man's ear off, who smashed countless opponents with his elbows and forearms on the inside, who brawled with Lennox at a press conference and bit his leg, who told opponents that he was going to drive their nose into their brain, eat their children and stomp on their testicles... of course he had way too much respect and admiration for his opponents than to ever use PED's.