Mayweather received banned IV injection before Pacquiao fight

[Fenster]

What an article by Hauser. Gonna take two goes to get through it.

USADA allows Mayweather to determine when the testing begins. That leaves a long period of time during which there are no checks on what substances he might put into his body.

“Mayweather is not doing ‘Olympic-style testing,’” Conte states. What he could be doing is this. The fight is over. First, he uses these drugs for tissue repair. Then he can stay on them until he announces his next fight, at which time he’s the one who decides when the next round of testing starts. And by the time testing starts, the drugs have cleared his system.

The whole concept of one man dictating the testing schedule is wrong. But USADA lets Mayweather do it. USADA is not doing effective comprehensive testing on Floyd Mayweather. Testing for four or five weeks before a fight is nonsense.”

“It’s bizarre,” Don Catlin says with regard to the retroactive therapeutic use exemption that USADA granted to Mayweather. “It’s very troubling to me. USADA has yet to explain to my satisfaction why Mayweather needed an IV infusion. There might be a valid explanation, but I don’t know what it is.”

[Kirkland Laing]

USADA allows Mayweather to determine when the testing begins. That leaves a long period of time during which there are no checks on what substances he might put into his body.

“Mayweather is not doing ‘Olympic-style testing,’” Conte states. What he could be doing is this. The fight is over. First, he uses these drugs for tissue repair. Then he can stay on them until he announces his next fight, at which time he’s the one who decides when the next round of testing starts. And by the time testing starts, the drugs have cleared his system.

The whole concept of one man dictating the testing schedule is wrong. But USADA lets Mayweather do it. USADA is not doing effective comprehensive testing on Floyd Mayweather. Testing for four or five weeks before a fight is nonsense.”

The IV part of this really was just rehydration and vitamins. I don't think Floyd would have done anything dodgy the day before the biggest money fight in history.

The crucial part for me is the bit above. Floyd knows who he's going to fight long before he announces it. It's throwing money away not announcing it further and having more time to promote it.

I've always said there isn't any proper testing in boxing. Proper testing means random testing 365 days a year. WADA, another drug testing body, has offered totally free random testing to every top professional fighter. So far the only guy who signed up for it is Nonito Donaire. Not one other fighter is taking advantage of a free service that would allow them to show the world that they're a clean fighter. Res ipsa loquitur.