Some people want to compare boxers hiring BALCO crook Victor Conte to hiring an ex-burglar to tell you how to protect your house from yeggs.
I said yeggs meaning second story men, not eggs as in Filipino street delicacy balut.
I don’t buy it. Hiring Conte is more like hiring the Boston Strangler to demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver.
You know the Boston Strangler, he was what soul stirrer Joe Simon used to sing about, “The Choking Kind.”
I guess heavyweight contender Fast Eddie Chambers and a few others have worked with Conte.
That is beyond stupid.
Here’s the guy who brought Sugar Shane Mosley to BALCO, who handed Mosley his illegal substances and his doping calendar.
He and Mosley are still locked in a defamation suit in which Conte, the “honest criminal” says Mosley knew he was cheating and Mosley persists in saying he was duped.
Anyone in boxing working with Conte….well, the expression “brainless” does come to mind.
When I told Olympic drug test guru, Dr. Don Caitlin, that Conte was portraying himself as a good guy, an anti drug guy, I thought the UCLA Professor Emeritus was going to spit up his soup.
“The bad guy…the guy we chased on BALCO?” Caitlin said. “He’s working with boxers?”
Adding Conte as your steroid/PED consultant is like employing Jack The Ripper to teach your wife or daughter how to avoid sexual assault.
Can you imagine a sport other than boxing where a drug cheat could get openly hired?
Somebody explain to me against why Panama Lewis is banned for life and yet Conte can work closely with boxers?
