Arum suspicious about Mayweather’s drug tests

By Boxing News - 09/18/2015 - Comments

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By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum says he has some concerns about the test results for Floyd Mayweather Jr’s fight against Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd. Arum is specifically concerned and suspicious about the testosterone ratio levels for Mayweather. Arum says that Mayweather tested at a .6 and .8 for the testosterone levels, where it should have been 2 to 3 due to him being an athlete.

Arum says his own testosterone ratios are 1.5 to 2. He doesn’t understand how Mayweather’s could be as low as .6, when he’s only 38-years-old and not 83.

Arum isn’t as worried about the IV drip matter that USADA gave Mayweather permission for three weeks after his May 2nd clash with Pacquiao.

“I’m less concerned about that [the IV drip], although it’s a concern, than the points in Houser’s article where he had Mayweather tested in at .6 and .8 in the ratio for testosterone and epi-testosterone,” Arum said to Fighthub. “I’m an old man and my ratio is 1 ½ to 2. Mayweather’s ratio as an athlete should be between 2 and 3. For him to test less than 1, something is wrong. What could be wrong is there’s a cream that you can take to get the ratio down, which is an epi-testosterone cream, which you can’t really regulate it and if you rub it in, you can lose control of the ratio. If a doctor saw a ratio in a young male athlete like .6 and .8, he should send them right to the hospital. That’s in my mind virtually impossible. I’m not a doctor, but it sounds incredible.”

As far as Mayweather’s testosterone ratios go, we don’t know what’s normal and what’s not normal. Arum is a promoter, not a doctor. If Mayweather is testing at .6 or .8 in the testosterone ratio levels, it could mean nothing. It could mean that he has naturally low testosterone.

Mayweather is after all almost 40-years-old, and people lose their testosterone as they get older. Mayweather might just be one of the many people losing his testosterone. But without a doctor to make sense of the tests, I don’t see how you can point fingers at Mayweather about his tests. What we do know is his drug results weren’t flagged by USADA, so as far as I’m concerned, Mayweather is clean.

If the USADA agency had found something in his tests they would have obviously reported it a long time ago. But with this being four months after the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, it’s too late to play Monday morning quarterback.

Arum can bring it up all he wants, but Mayweather passed the tests and he’s already had one other fight since then against Andre Berto. Mayweather isn’t going to go backwards to give Pacquiao a rematch just because Arum is bringing up this testosterone ratio stuff.

Mayweather is now retired and living comfortably in his beautiful mansion in Las Vegas, Nevada. He owns houses in other parts of the United States, and he’s invested his money wisely. If Mayweather does return to the ring in 2016, he’ll do it because he’s motivated by an intriguing fight rather than for the love of money.

“I always considered him a very clean athlete. I never thought he would ever use kinds of drugs, but something smells wrong with those tests. That’s over and above this crazy three weeks after the fight getting a TUE from USADA,” Arum said.



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