By Chris Williams: Some conspiracy theorists may not like this news but that’s too bad for them. Juan Manuel Marquez’s test results for performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) for his fight with Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night have come back and the results were negative, according to RingTV.
Pacquiao’s test results were negative as well. No anabolic steroids and other such PEDs were neither found nor any other drugs.
Keith Kizer, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said to RingTV “They [Pacquiao and Marquez] were tested for everything – steroids, diuretics, masking agents, drugs of abuse, and they came back negative.”
For boxing fans looking for an excuse for Marquez’s win over Pacquiao last Saturday night they won’t be able to look for the PEDs angle because now it’s academic that Marquez tested negative. The only thing some of the conspiracy theorists can grasp onto now to excuse Pacquiao’s lose is that Marquez was simply the better trained fighter, the stronger fighter, and the more talented guy. He beat Pacquiao with talent, power and with the help of good old fashioned hard training.
The same kind of training was available to Pacquiao through his strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, but Pacquiao chose to focus mostly on his boxing rather than gaining strength. In hindsight that might have been a bad mistake on Pacquiao’s part, because the sport of boxing have progressed in recent years and fighters that use strength coaches like Marquez often are able to build up their power and conditioning to a high level.
It’s too bad Pacquiao didn’t choose to use what was available to him, not that it would have saved him getting knocked cold from that big right hand that Marquez dropped on him in the 6th round last Saturday night.
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