“Nonito is the frontrunner of how testing should be in the sport, being that there’s so many that have been caught (cheating) in the last 6-8 months,” — Rachel Donaire.
Rachel Donaire, wife of WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, Jr. and a former US jr. Olypics tae kwon do jin, knows a thing or two about fair play and athletic competition. On Tuesday, she traded her stylish threads for a white VADA (Voluntary Anti-Dopoing Agency) shirt that read ?24/7/365 Nothing to Hide, Everything to Prove? to show support to her husband’s stance regarding doping in the sport of boxing. Advertisement
Donaire enrolled himself in VADA’s (Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency) 24-7-365 drug testing, which allows him to be tested for illegal substances in his system all year long randomly at any given time. “As far as cheating and doping, something has to be done. I work hard. I do everything that I can. And I’m always willing to prove that I’m clean,” Donaire told me in an interview.
In an interview with ESNEWSReporting.com’s Elie Seckbach, Mrs. Donaire chimed in on her thoughts about fighters’ reaction about VADA’s 24-7-365 testing. “There’s two batches of fighters. Those that say ‘I don’t want to do testing, because everybody is getting caught’, and there are those that are like ‘See! See what I’m saying? I’m doing this clean and you’re over there cheating.'”
“Nonito is the frontrunner of how testing should be in the sport, being that there’s so many that have been caught (cheating) in the last 6-8 months,” she added.
Among those names caught with illegal substances in their system in the last 6-8 months are Andre Berto, Lamont Peterson, and most recently, Antonio Tarver.
“I think that we have to put it on an even playing field, because how are you going to say that anyone’s a champion without proving that you’re doing it naturally,” Rachel stated. CLICK HERE to listen to the Rachel Donaire’s interview.
To read more about the importance of 24-7-365 drug testing, read an excerpt from my interview with Victor Conte on the subject:
Victor Conte – “Boxing is different than Olympic caliber sports. You have individual fight. My prescription or recommendation would be, once you become a ranked fighter in the top 10, you should be subjected to 24-7-365 testing,”
“Let’s just take for example the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley. They signed up for this USADA testing, but they actually started five weeks out. Now recently it’s recently come out that they didn’t even start testing til’ 18-19 days before the fight. They initially did some blood testing and urine testing and it was supposed to be random and of course the athletes always have the threat that they can be tested at any time and that can pose to be a deterrent.”
“There’s no blood testing now that is fool-proof. As an example with the Olympic athletes let’s just say during the time frame of Beijing in 2008 which was in August of 2008. When the athletes that made the decision of using performance enhancing drugs used them, specifically anabolic steroids and growth hormones, was back in the October, November, December time frame the year before in 2007. This is when they used steroids in conjunction with an intense weight training and they build the explosive strength and speed base that serves them months and months later throughout the competitive season and at the Olympic games.”
“So back to this Mosley-Mayweather fight, either one of these guys could have been using anabolic steroids months and months up until the time… whatever the date was.. I believe the first testing the did was March 22nd before the fight on May 1st. The way steroids work is called the process of cell volumization. And they make you pumped up and more nutrients and more fluid gets inside the cells which will also make you tight and lack flexibility and speed when you’re on these. You develop your strength base but you have to taper at least 2 weeks before your body comes down to a normal fluid balance and you could utilize that strength, power and speed.”
“Yes for a short period of time, about a three week time frame, they were subjected to testing, actually it was just about a two week time frame and the final 18 or 19 days there was no testing. Now I’m giving ways on circumventing the testing so you understand that USADA as an example is really not capable of certifying these fighters are clean.”
