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Post by themagi on Mar 5, 2023 3:25:49 GMT 1
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Post by themagi on Dec 20, 2020 1:10:39 GMT 1
'Sup gang.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Just Beautiful.
Well done, Benji.
Flush that tissue paper down the toilet, once and for all.
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Post by themagi on Dec 21, 2019 22:57:44 GMT 1
Hey fellas. Just checked in to type that it could not happen to a nicer fella. Break a leg and all that. Ha!
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Post by themagi on Aug 1, 2019 12:21:05 GMT 1
Before I go any further I will just adjust a point I made yesterday regarding UKAD and their "In Competition" rules. It appears (I write "appears" as UKAD state that In-Comp rules in the UK differ from sport to sport, and I can't find their definition for boxing anywhere on their site) that window to still be able to take banned substances legally under UKAD may in fact be reduced to a mere twenty four hours before competing rather the initial seventy two I posted yesterday, with a small amount of substances allowed to be taken up until twelve hours before go time! Sheesh!
At some point on the afternoon of 17th July, three days before the fight, Dillian Whyte, his team and Matchroom Sport, the event promoters, where verbally alerted to a possible drug test issue that came through officially via writing from UKAD late that evening, with the British Boxing Board of Control also being made aware.
The following day, Thursday 18th July, the final press conference was held with the SKY hype machine in full effect, this was a SKY Box Office event with the Whyte-Rivas fight headlining a PPV night of heavyweight action at the fabled o2 Arena in London (not sold out, I believe) that featured Dereck Chisora, David Price among others (it was better than it looked, honestly) and carried a rather hefty £19.95 price tag if you wished to watch it legally.
At this point, things get murky, quickly. UKAD's use of confidentiality from here on out make things very difficult to verify and the British Boxing Board of Control's deference to UKAD protocols doesn't particularly either, but that's my opinion. We still do not have official confirmation of the substances at the heart of the issue, but according to the story by Thomas Hauser published on boxingscene, Whyte tested positive for epimethandienone and hydroxymethandienone, which are metabolites of the banned stimulant, Dianabol. We are told that Whyte argued this and asked for his B sample to be tested, a process which takes days. With the result of the B sample coming after the date of the scheduled fight, UKAD informed Whyte that he was to explain the positive test issue at a rather hastily arranged hearing in front of the independent National Anti Doping Panel, which decides punishments or lack thereof in cases where UKAD discovers potential cheats. This hearing took place on either the 19th or 20th of July, the latter being the actual day of the fight. Part of Whyte's defense, we are led to believe via comments from several interviews held this week with Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, is documentation from VADA (a totally different agency, of course) to prove that he passed all of their tests for this camp with no issues and also that the alleged test failure came from a sample collected by UKAD approximately a month before being informed of it's banned substances. Ultimately, the National Anti-Doping Panel declared Whyte "cleared to fight". How they came to this decision is something I am very interested in discovering. There are also unsubstantiated rumours that Oscar Rivas had some kind of testing anomaly in the days leading to the fight, but they are unfounded, to this point.
Next part, I will be looking at the issue on fight night with the gloves that the fighters wished to use and the aftermath of the contest, such as why has the WBC removed Whyte as mandatory challenger and stripped him of his meaningless WBC Silver title if the result to the fight has yet to actually change?
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Post by themagi on Jul 31, 2019 13:18:10 GMT 1
Very sad situation. Two lives lost in the space of days alongside, at best, a terrible act of selfishness or; if you look at it another way, evidence of a ghastly cover up. So many questions that will probably never be answered and with today's tornado like news cycle, that's just the way that Dillian Whyte's legal team will prefer it to stay. IDK why the subject of PED's in combat sports gets my dander up as much as it does, but when there's all the elements of underhanded dogshittery, as there appears to be here, coupled with what are purported to be journalists in both print and video form who are simply an embarrassment to the word, both misrepresenting and inaccurately reporting the truth, then I just get the urge to type. This will be in more than one part (not that anybody will read it), as I feel their is a lot to unpack: Drug Testing The Dillian Whyte-Oscar Rivas fight had several "strands" of drug testing attached to it, that being two agencies conducting testing with both having slightly different methods and rulings, which is a debate in itself sadly, those agencies being VADA (Voluntary Anti Doping Association) and UKAD (United Kingdom Anti Doping). VADA were in an intriguing position in that Whyte allegedly pays for their services, for both himself and his opponent, for random testing that begins at an undetermined time, decided by either Whyte (red flag!) or both parties mutually, and ends with a post fight test. It is important to note that despite reports to the contrary, it is my understanding that Whyte is not in VADA's 24/7/365 program and chooses to simply employ VADA in the period both before and after fights (as do virtually all fighters who use VADA, it should be noted). The intrigue comes in the form of the WBC's own drug testing policy, Clean Boxing Program, which purports to randomly test all of their top 15 ranked contenders across all of the seventeen weight divisions and the female only Atomweight division. The WBC chose to use a drug testing agency to oversee and conduct the actual running of the CBP, paying $15k a month to, you guessed it, VADA to do the leg work. A quick bit of maths: eighteen weight divisions with fifteen fighters each, with a fifteen thousand dollar monthly stipend to cover a testing procedure that costs three thousand dollars to effectively test a single fighter for a single camp equals a toothless program that is simply for keeping up appearances, that effectively cheapens the agency which actually conducts the testing that they are almost guaranteed to not discover any cheats. It is not known currently how many times, if at all, that VADA tested both Whyte and Rivas in conjunction with the WBC's Clean Boxing Program, or in their position for this fight as an independent drug testing contractor. UKAD were also in position as the drug testing agency of choice for the British Boxing Board of Control, who oversee all pro boxing in the UK. I have posted in depth before about UKAD and their somewhat divergent attitude to doling out punishments to offenders, so forgive me if I write with an air of familiarity over this. UKAD operate with an "in competition" rule, that virtually no other agency uses to my knowledge, this being that substances that are declared 'specified', and would be banned from use at any time under any other drug testing agency, can be used up until 72 hours before competition. 'Specified' substances are banned at all times under, for example, VADA, but under the WADA (World Anti Doping, which set the parameters for the agencies to test and decrees which substances are banned, or not) code, 'Specified' substances which show up in a test could potentially lead to a shorter suspension than an 'Unspecified' substance. Next part, I will take a look at what we know happened on
17th July.
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Post by themagi on Jun 21, 2019 2:09:33 GMT 1
All Tany's fault.
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Post by themagi on Mar 26, 2019 3:04:15 GMT 1
Other than the UFC deciding to loan out Overeem to face Rico, is there any other opponent that Verhoeven could face for a stadium show?
Looks as though Hari is out with potential suspension/litigation issues, if this fight was to happen in the Netherlands (would a suspension cover the Benelux or just Holland?) and I can't really think of anyone else who could carry such a slot. GLORY's Dutch shows are the only ones that appear to even slightly register outside of the hardcore, from what I gather.
They've lost so many actual fighters, gone down the cheap route for so long with guys that have no business being in a GLORY ring (multiple times on too many occasions) and stuck with that rigid system for way too long. Seven to eight years in and they are still pissing Mssr. Andurand's money away if the numbers online are even half way accurate. And how fuc$ing low-rent did that Houston show look?
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Post by themagi on Dec 31, 2018 22:20:23 GMT 1
What an absolute wanker. Had a massive weight advantage and came out swinging. In a fu*king boxing exhibition. Even when Tenshin was down and hurt, he was waiting to pounce. Wish he'd been this brave in the opening round against McGregor.
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Post by themagi on Nov 7, 2018 20:35:39 GMT 1
Agreed to something nominally, announcement was rushed, realized what he was getting into, likely wanted to make a few changes, met short shrift on those, plug was pulled.
Rizin, you got yourselves a shit tonne of publicity, so now do your worst.......
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Post by themagi on Nov 7, 2018 14:31:28 GMT 1
Guess here is that this will be nothing more than a 3x3's or 3x2's in boxing exhibition form, complete with nods, grins and glove taps galore. Of course I hope I'm wrong, kicks will be in and we will have both a winner and a loser but looking at who's involved and where the money appears to be coming from then this will be nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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Post by themagi on Sept 21, 2018 0:53:11 GMT 1
How can this be so? For so long it seemed he was the future and now he is gone.
More than a little Krazy, certainly no angel and when laced up he had more than his fair share of devil in him but despite all that he'll always Bee God's Son. RIP Kid Yamamoto.
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Post by themagi on Jul 15, 2018 22:17:23 GMT 1
Here it is.
IDK, Petro had the air of someone who knew that as long as he stayed on his feet, his hand was getting raised. Or maybe it's just me.
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Post by themagi on Feb 20, 2018 20:28:55 GMT 1
Chance of a lifetime for Nieky, I really hope he's raking it in as there is massive money to be had in this particular tournament, but he's in up to his neck. I'd say his chances of victory are in the 5% range.
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Post by themagi on Feb 10, 2018 3:13:08 GMT 1
I heard him mention that and that he also apparently has a new team with the exception of Mike Passenier. But without the added extra mass and the fact that he isn't 22 anymore he turns in performances akin to Samedov III when he's less inflated. well when he fought samedov in his third fight he only trained for two weeks due to an injury at his leg that he sustained in the k-1 tournament. 5 weeks before his third fight with samedov he was still walking in a crutch. Couple that with having only 4 months since he was released from prison and also him being off the juice as his body looked horrbile, it is no surprised he didn't do well against samedov. For comparison, he only had 3 weeks of training for londt and was only 1 month removed from ramadan, pretty much everyone thought he will get destroyed under those circumstances, yet other than two moments in the second round, he totally outclassed londt for 95% of the fight and also dropped him 4 times. Now that he doesn't come out of ramadan and has a 2 month training champ, I'm confident that he should do well against gerges, who also is no easy task as some people believe. Gerges is a hard fight for everyone. I personally think it will end in a decision, with badr staying on the outside using jabs and straight body punches and footwork. Gerges will come forward. I certainly would have called it a surprise that he lost to Samedov third time out. Check out the mass of humanity that leapt into the ring after the fight to celebrate with Zabit. They were almost delirious. I recall there were mitigating circumstances on the night of their second match, at the now infamous 2013 K-1 WGP Final in Zagreb. Photographs were circulated of an injury and word of Hari pulling out after his quarter final regardless were rampant even before the first bell rang for said rematch. I don't recall noticing that Hari was favouring his foot in the third bout, not that it's indication at all that he was or wasn't competing injured and even if he was then it was his decision to take a bout with an opponent a handful of weeks after beating him previously, and for a second time to boot. Samedov took it to him and Badr couldn't handle it and didn't want any more was my assessment of their contest at LEGEND. Four months is more than ample time for a pro fighter to get into some kind of shape, if they have any designs on continuing their career at some point in the near future, IMHO, if their application is diligent, dedicated and honest. Those are three key words in the Hari conversation. If Hari choses to compete during or just after Ramadan, that is his decision and I chose to respect that, just as I would if he decided not to compete, in that I don't think it should be used as a reason for a loss or poor performance. Was Londt the favourite going into the Hari fight? I can't recall that for the life of me and nor do I remember Hari's observing of Ramadan coming up in the run-up to the fight.
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Post by themagi on Feb 9, 2018 12:34:44 GMT 1
I was amazed at how svelte Hari was. He weighed in at a shade over 265 for Verhoeven but if he was anything over 230 here I'll be surprised. He's certainly lost a lot of weight and with less than a month until fight time, I'm sure he'll "find" at least some of it again. Is the De Telegraaf covering/sponsoring this show anything of note? Their UK counterpart, the cunningly titled Daily Telegraph, is the only newspaper within it's shores that has wrote the word "kickboxing" within it's pages and it being in a positive light. Finally, if a Kodiak bear could talk it would most definitely have the voice of Hesdy Gerges. he said at the press that he lost weight because he wants to fight again explosive like he did in k-1. I heard him mention that and that he also apparently has a new team with the exception of Mike Passenier. But without the added extra mass and the fact that he isn't 22 anymore he turns in performances akin to Samedov III when he's less inflated.
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