Rafael: None of the fighters in title bouts on Chavez-Rubio fight card was drug tested after their fights

By Boxing News - 02/07/2012 - Comments

Image: Rafael: None of the fighters in title bouts on Chavez-Rubio fight card was drug tested after their fightsBy Dan Ambrose: Well, it looks like the Texas Athletic Commission completely blew it by failing to book a lab to test the fighters in title bouts last Saturday night’s Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Marco Antonio Rubio fight card.

According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, none of the fighters on that card was drug tested after their fights.

Rafael said “None of the fighters in the title bouts on the card were drug tested. Texas does not require drug testing. Texas typically tests anyway in major fights and did not on this one because they screwed up by not booking a lab.”

The fact that Texas doesn’t require testing is pretty sad but is sure could be an advantage if you had a fighter that was dirty and he wanted to get away with it. Can you imagine what a fighter could get away with if he didn’t have to worry about being tested?

We’re talking steroids, growth hormone and diuretics to drain all that water weight so that a dirty fighter could make a weight class that he normally wouldn’t be able to fight in. That’s bad. I’m sure everyone on last Saturday’s fight card was probably clean but it’s sad they didn’t have any testing to make sure of that.

I can’t believe Rubio’s people didn’t look into this ahead of time to make sure there would be testing for this fight. They should have asked.

What’s up with Texas, though? How can you have a state that doesn’t require drug testing for fighters? What’s up with that? I know Texas has some real plusses for residents, such as no state income tax, strong economy due to oil money and high tech industry, cheap real estate and cheap property taxes. But I guess you can add no drug testing for fighters to that mix. Wow! What a place.



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