KIZER TALKS ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH BLOOD TESTS
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 08 Jan 2010
Without meaning to, the respected Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission lawyer Keith Kizer has refuted the random blood test demands put forward by the Floyd Mayweather Jr camp that in the end scuttled the March 13 super fight against boxing hero and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao citing some problems about blood testing.
In a wide-ranging interview with former pro boxer James “Smitty” Smith of the popular boxing show “In This Corner,” Kizer said “there are risks involved with blood testing that you don’t have in urine testing. Obviously they are much more evasive tests even when they give blood for HIV and the hepatitis they do that in a sterile environment in a hospital or a doctor’s office or a laboratory.”
Kizer said “we don’t want to take blood in a dressing room before or after the fight” which also means that taking random drug tests at the Wild Card Gym where Pacquiao trains or at his apartment in Los Angeles would violate NSAC’s conditions regarding a sterile environment for blood tests.
Kizer also pointed out that in blood tests “chances are that you could hit a vein, cause some bruising or something like that so you get more reasons why we do the urine testing and not the blood testing.”
However, the NSAC executive said “that does not mean there isn't some sort of benefit from blood testing and it seems like both parties are agreeable to do blood testing in addition to urine testing by the commission but they are just not agreeable on when to have these tests done and how many of these tests to have which is something they have to decide between them.”
Despite Pacquiao’s acceptance of a proposal to bring forward his original cut-off date of 30 days before the fight for the blood test to 24, which jibed with the test taken prior to his fight against Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton and aired on the HBO 24/7 series and the efforts of Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Mayweather’s adviser Al Haymon’s efforts to convince him to accept the compromise, Mayweather refused and the fight was called off to the chagrin of millions of fight fans and media around the world.
In the end even the nine hour mediation marathon presided over by former federal judge Daniel Weinstein proved futile, strengthening the claim by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum that Mayweather never wanted to fight Pacquiao and that he was scared to death of losing his undefeated record which he has successful maintained by ducking dangerous opponents such as Sugar Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito in the past and now Pacquiao.
Kizer maintained that both Pacquiao and Mayweather “passed every single test we have given them” even as they had “successfully moved up in weight” and were “very clean athletes when it comes to drug testing.”
Kizer made it clear that the NSAC “relies on the experts” just like the International Olympic Committee or the US Olympic Committee. He said the “labs we use, the protocols we have follow the World Anti Doping Agency list and we have adopted and appropriated the WADA list of prohibited substances so whenever they add something to their list of prohibited substances it is automatically added to our list. So there is no significant or important difference between how they test the urine in the Olympics and how we test the urine.”
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