Wayne Alexander (Former European super-welterweight champion)
So long as they’ve put their arms up and admitted their guilt as quickly because the take a look at comes again optimistic, they need to take the punishment – whether or not or not it’s a nice or a ban, or each – and be ready for random checks in future. If it occurs once more, they need to be banned for all times. Everyone seems to be entitled to a second probability, although, as a result of typically it’s not 100 per cent the fighter’s fault, what with the potential of contamination and spiking, and so on.
Michael Conlan (Featherweight contender)
I really feel it’s flawed and I can’t help them. We’re in a sport the place individuals’s lives are in danger each time they step into the ring. It’s already very harmful with out PEDs, so if somebody has knowingly taken one thing a lifetime ban ought to be enforced. Even when unknowingly, they need to nonetheless obtain a ban.
Gary Logan (Former Southern Space welterweight champion)
I watch the suspected cheats or those that have failed checks with an indifference now. My fandom and my admiration for them has actually been affected by failed checks. One thing about them is now tainted. I by no means watch them reside and I by no means purchase their pay-per-views. As an alternative, I’ll watch the battle a couple of days later merely from a technical, coach’s perspective.
Gareth A Davies (Journalist)
Sensible query, and one it’s important to wrestle with as a correspondent. Enormous gray space, right here. However PEDs are banned for a motive. As everyone knows, boxing is an inherently harmful sport. Well timed reminder, furthermore, given what’s going on with Conor Benn, which has turn out to be a wider situation for the game prior to now six months. In some unspecified time in the future it’s important to forgive, however you possibly can’t neglect.
