Mundine to Implement Mayweather's Drug Testing For Entire Career

[AllTimeGreat]

Kind of satirical he needs it in this bout. But i guess its a good thing.

Rope the dopes: Mundine demands pre-bout drug-testing of opponents

BRAD WALTER

July 29, 2010

ANTHONY MUNDINE has followed the lead of Floyd Mayweather jnr, the pound-for-pound superstar he eventually wants to fight, by insisting on Olympics-style drugs testing for his WBA junior middleweight world title eliminator bout against Ryan Waters.
Mundine, who hopes the fight against the WBA's No.7-ranked junior middleweight can propel him to a shot at Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito, intends to demand all future opponents undergo three blood tests for drugs before their bouts.
''I want to set a precedent in boxing here and clean up the sport,'' Mundine said. ''I just feel that in the past there have been some fighters who have had some enhancement. I am not going to name names but I feel that they couldn't take the punishment and respond the way they did. I just feel that some guys will go to any lengths to beat me and if that is by taking drugs and enhancing their bodies illegally, then they will do that, because that is how much it means to them.''
Mayweather sparked controversy earlier this year. His refusal to back down on his demands that Manny Pacquiao undergo three blood tests before their bout resulted in one of the most eagerly awaited fights in boxing history not going ahead.
Mundine said that Waters had agreed to the stringent drug-testing and his next scheduled opponent, The Contender Australia champion Garth Wood, would do the same.
''I want to be drugs-tested,'' Mundine said. ''I've never been Olympic-style drugs-tested except when I fought in Germany, but I want both blood tests and urine tests. I don't want them on steroids, I don't want them on stanozolol, I don't want them on EPO [erythropoietin]. I want them to be even, I want them to be just like me. I work hard.''
Waters, who is also rated No.5 in the WBO's junior middleweight rankings, has been unbeaten since June 2006 and views the bout with Mundine as his opportunity to secure a world title fight.
''In this half of the world [the southern hemisphere] I am the strongest light middleweight getting around and I will show everyone that on September 15,'' Waters said.
Mundine said the fight was a stepping stone to a fourth world title in a third weight division. ''Ryan is world-rated by two sanctioning bodies, he is No.7 in the WBA and I am No.2, so we've got two boxers ranked in the top 10 in the world fighting an eliminator to be the next in line for a shot at the world title,'' he said.
The main preliminary bout will pit Australia's top-rated heavyweight, Alex Leapai, against Britain's Danny Williams, who famously scored a fourth-round knockout of Mike Tyson in 2004.

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[Obama]

Good to see Mundine doing something positive for the sport.

[ovylord]

Originally Posted by Obama

Good to see Mundine doing something positive for the sport.

Yep, even if it's just testing it's better then nothing

[layton]

Drug Testing should be mandatory in this sport with any boxer being called for a test at any time regardless of wether they have a fight coming up or not just like in atheletics. Boxers are seen upon as elite athletes therefore they should endevour to make the sport look just that. A CLEAN elite sport. Anyone who cant deal with testing should go do bodybuilding with the rest of juicers!

[Dj Si Thompson]

I think it's a great idea and fair play to Mundine. I'm all for the testing and always have been!

[Max]

"I just feel that in the past there have been some fighters who have had some enhancement. I am not going to name names but I feel that they couldn't take the punishment and respond the way they did. I just feel that some guys will go to any lengths to beat me and if that is by taking drugs and enhancing their bodies illegally, then they will do that, because that is how much it means to them.''

hmmmm ... This sounds like Mundine is trying to implicate someone who he fought that has taken punishment in their career only to come out stronger. I don't believe him. I bet Mundine and Nasser talked to a lawyer before making this statement.

[ecto55]

I don't believe that either- I can't recall Mundine ever putting an inordinate amount of punishment on anyone and having them responding in any suprising way, although Mundine himself may be the best the judge of this. Mabye he's trying to slide this in as an explanation for his lack of recent knockouts?

More likely, Mundine and Abs (Khoder Nasser) are just looking for a way to keep Mundine in the news and get some good press, Choc's always been a phenomenal natural athlete- (e.g.- heard when was playing for St George that he clocked the beep test (all 21 levels) three times continously) whose always been regarded as 'clean', so this is no skin off his nose as the saying goes.

I hope that the idea gains currency among fighters and becomes expected among the global boxing community...

[gran]

i think this may play a role in the future of testing,i wonder why it takes a guy like mundine to demand this type of test to gain this type of response,i wonder if mundine has any clout to make such a demand,i for one think that these tests should be allowed to take place under the supervision of highly trained personal that are not ascosiated with any of the participating camps