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someone just sent me this...apparently there are rumors that vargas got caught juicin'. has anyone heard anything about this or have any info?
AS VEGAS, Sept. 26 - Fernando Vargas will not be the only one to suffer if
the shocking reports that he took illegal anabolic steroids before his
highly publicized fight with Oscar de la Hoya are true.
The entire sport would be shaken at a time when it appeared that Vargas
himself was going to help restore some of its past glory.
Word was that NBC was going to return to televising fights, with Vargas's
planned springtime return the centerpiece of a series to be sponsored by
Miller Lite.
The question is now whether NBC and Miller would hitch their wagons to a
fallen star who was caught cheating.
Vargas is by no means guilty, though sources close to the southern
California star have acknowledged there is a problem with his drug testing.
No report has been made public. The Nevada physicians who would normally be
in charge of the post-fight testing - Flip Homanski, one of the five state
commissioners, and chief ringside doctor Margaret Goodman - were in
Baltimore attending a conference of boxing doctors and could not be
immediately reached.
Vargas was reportedly in Hawaii with his fiancee and two young boys.
But Nevada sources said Vargas had tested positively for a steroid that
would normally be used not to build up a body, but to help make weight.
Weeks before de la Hoya stopped Vargas in the 11th round at the Mandalay Bay
here in the second biggest non-heavyweight pay-per-view bout in history,
there were accusations from that camp that Vargas was having serious trouble
making weight.
Vargas, a 2-1 underdog, did well early, but tired late as de la Hoya
patiently began to break him down. After the bout, Vargas's stamina was
questioned by Jon Phillbin, the former Washington Redskin conditioner who
worked in his camp. Philbin said he was quitting because he could not get
along with the nutritionist Vargas had hired.
Rolando Arellano, who co-manages Vargas with Shelly Finkel, told
Maxboxing.com's Steve Kim (or was it Gary Randall), that he has yet to be
notified that his fighter had done anything wrong.
At the time of Philbin's outburst, though, Arellano explodes, saying the
conditioner should not have offered any kinds of excuses because it would
have taken away from de la Hoya's victory.
New York State recently announced it would test for steroids - unlike
recreational drugs, usually used not to get "high" or have fun, but to cheat
- unlike most states. But one expert told MaxBoxing that New York's test
would not have uncovered the steroid allegedly found in Vargas, that it was
"cosmetic, just like Major League Baseball's testing procedures."
Vargas, if guilty, could of course be fined and/or suspended. Boxing is
breaking new ground with steroid testing and the rules are not clear.
What is clear, though, is that once again, the sport seems to have turned
the possibility of something positive into another negative.
AS VEGAS, Sept. 26 - Fernando Vargas will not be the only one to suffer if
the shocking reports that he took illegal anabolic steroids before his
highly publicized fight with Oscar de la Hoya are true.
The entire sport would be shaken at a time when it appeared that Vargas
himself was going to help restore some of its past glory.
Word was that NBC was going to return to televising fights, with Vargas's
planned springtime return the centerpiece of a series to be sponsored by
Miller Lite.
The question is now whether NBC and Miller would hitch their wagons to a
fallen star who was caught cheating.
Vargas is by no means guilty, though sources close to the southern
California star have acknowledged there is a problem with his drug testing.
No report has been made public. The Nevada physicians who would normally be
in charge of the post-fight testing - Flip Homanski, one of the five state
commissioners, and chief ringside doctor Margaret Goodman - were in
Baltimore attending a conference of boxing doctors and could not be
immediately reached.
Vargas was reportedly in Hawaii with his fiancee and two young boys.
But Nevada sources said Vargas had tested positively for a steroid that
would normally be used not to build up a body, but to help make weight.
Weeks before de la Hoya stopped Vargas in the 11th round at the Mandalay Bay
here in the second biggest non-heavyweight pay-per-view bout in history,
there were accusations from that camp that Vargas was having serious trouble
making weight.
Vargas, a 2-1 underdog, did well early, but tired late as de la Hoya
patiently began to break him down. After the bout, Vargas's stamina was
questioned by Jon Phillbin, the former Washington Redskin conditioner who
worked in his camp. Philbin said he was quitting because he could not get
along with the nutritionist Vargas had hired.
Rolando Arellano, who co-manages Vargas with Shelly Finkel, told
Maxboxing.com's Steve Kim (or was it Gary Randall), that he has yet to be
notified that his fighter had done anything wrong.
At the time of Philbin's outburst, though, Arellano explodes, saying the
conditioner should not have offered any kinds of excuses because it would
have taken away from de la Hoya's victory.
New York State recently announced it would test for steroids - unlike
recreational drugs, usually used not to get "high" or have fun, but to cheat
- unlike most states. But one expert told MaxBoxing that New York's test
would not have uncovered the steroid allegedly found in Vargas, that it was
"cosmetic, just like Major League Baseball's testing procedures."
Vargas, if guilty, could of course be fined and/or suspended. Boxing is
breaking new ground with steroid testing and the rules are not clear.
What is clear, though, is that once again, the sport seems to have turned
the possibility of something positive into another negative.
