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

[Spicoli]

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.

[Beanz]

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!

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.

[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!

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.

2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

[Beanz]

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!

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.

2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

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

[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!

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.

2 years to reveal the positive test results?!

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

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

[beenKOed]

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.

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!

[p4pking]

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.

[Beanflicker]

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.

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.

[beenKOed]

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!

[Beanflicker]

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!

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.

[Silkeyjoe]

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.

[bzkfn]

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

[Beanflicker]

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

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

[Master]

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

[beenKOed]

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

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?