Drug ban vs Legacy..

[imp]

If a mandatory 5 year ban was given then who knows whether Wlad would still be the heavyweight champion right now..why is Miller now back under Bob Arum preparing to make millions.

If you really look deep into it the whole thing is sick..

[Memphis]

If a mandatory 5 year ban was given then who knows whether Wlad would still be the heavyweight champion right now..why is Miller now back under Bob Arum preparing to make millions.

If you really look deep into it the whole thing is sick..

Cheating is actively encouraged. OK maybe doing everything possible to gain an unfair advantage is the better wording. From the top to the bottom boxing is complicit and no one will do anything about it. They'll show outrage of course when someone gets popped for peds or when something tragic happens. All the while doing their best to screw the next guy out of anything and everything they possibly can.

[smashup]

Only way to stamp it out is lifetime bans.
Once one fucker gets caught and they end his/her career through a lifetime ban the others will stop doing it.

Until then nothing will change.

[X]

In any sport, if you are proven to have knowingly taken performance enhancing drugs, you should be banned for life.

If you fail a drugs test, but there are extenuating circumstances - is you took an over the counter medication which contained a banned substance, or if your samples were not properly secure,then you should get a 'yellow card'. Two yellow cards should mean a life ban.

This is especially true in a sport like boxing, where your opponent's life could be endangered by your cheating.

[Spicoli]

I think there should be a definite permanent indicator on a fighters record once testing 'dirty'. Second offense rip their license up. The problem is and I don't pretend to know all the particulars and component and supplement questions..do we even have a 100 percent concise and clear listing of what constitutes illegal substances. 'Banned substance' seems like a bit of a gloss over and feels like fighters have grown to hope for that. Benavides lost more..trinket, time and money for sticking some of that bugger sugar up his nose at a party on his time. Tyson popped and timed out for weed. There needs to be much better definitions and 1 rule applied for all across the board rather than the head of a sanctioning body etc massaging the rules depending on the fame of your name. It's to the point where every camp needs a full time chemist to decipher ingredients as they train.