WBC Forgets To Get To Drug Test Chavez Jr. After Fight

By: Frank Rivera

 

 

It appears that Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is the exception to the rules when it comes to the WBC antidoping drug policy’s. The Middleweight Champion skipped a post fight urine drug test that is mandatory by the WBC as reported by fightnews.com.

A representatives of Marco Antonio Rubio, claims that WBC Middleweight Champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. violated the WBC own regulation that stipulates, “both fighters must leave a urine sample for drug testing with the doctor of the local commission.” Below are the WBC rules and regulations articles on the policy testing after a bout.

ARTIFICIAL IV – MEDICAL & ANTIDOPING REGULATIONS
 
 
4.16 – Post-Bout Examinations – The local ringside doctor(s) should follow the contestants back to the dressing rooms or the antidoping test special are,if any, to check that both boxers are in satisfactory condition or institute any treatment that may be required. The doctor(s)  shall issue a written report of the post-bout examination.
 
Antidoping Regulations
 
4.36 – Procedures for Administration of Antidoping Tests.  Each local commission will determine  the mechanics for implementation of antidoping tests, but the following measures are required.
 
(a) The antidoping tests shall be taken from the urine of the contending          boxers immediately after the bout, at the dressing room or place designated by the doctor. The WBC may authorize the sample to be taken before the bouts  only in places where a law or a rules requires it. 
 
4.7  Prior Notification of Testing.  Before each WBC bout, the local commission shall inform each boxers that a testing of urine is mandatory immediately after each bout, and that failure or refusal to submit to such testing may result in disciplinary action, including, without limitation, disqualification, suspension or a fine.
 
4.38 Failure to Take Antidoping Tests. If, after being notified by the local commission about the mandatory testing of their urine, a boxer does not submit to such a testing, he will be disqualified, fined or suspended as the WBC my determine in it’s discretion. 

Rubio’s camp also claims, that during the press conference, Chavez Jr. was asked why he had not left a urine sample for examination, he chose to ignore the question and answered another questions instead. Rubio’s team are very suspicious of the way Chavez Jr. was acting during the questions and the avoidance of a simple question that could have been easily answered, if there was nothing to hide. Which opens the door for more questions to be answered.

  • The question that I have to ask is this, who really dropped the ball that night?
  • Did the Texas commission assigned ring doctor fail to make sure that Chavez Jr. took the mandatory urine anitdoping test in the dressing room immediately  following the fight?
  • How is it possible that Marcos Antonio Rubio was able to take his required test right after the fight when he arrived at his dressing room?
  • Where was the ring doctor that is supposed to be with Chavez Jr. to make sure he takes the test?
  • Did the commission tell Rubio about the test that he would have to take after the fight and not Chavez Jr?

If, the commission failed to mention (which I doubt) to Chavez Jr. that he is required to take a mandatory urine test immediately after his title defense, then they need to be held accountable answer for their incompetence.

WBC President Jose Sulaiman response to why Chavez Jr. did not take the test was a simple one, ” We forgot?” according to Rubio’s team, as fightnews.com reports. If, this is true that the WBC president Jose Sulaiman shrugged his shoulders and said, “we forgot,” is unacceptable.

It is no secret that on December 2009, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was caught using a diuretic called furosemide that lead to him being suspended for seven month’s by the Nevada State Athletic Committee.

Rubio’s camp has every right to demand the WBC to act accordingly, since Chavez Jr. clearly violated one of their own (WBC) rules by not leaving the required antidoping urine test behind immediately following his title defense against Marco Antonio Rubio, if that was the case.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations has taken full responsibility for not administrating the test after the fight. They did not book the drug testing laboratory for the Top Rank event on February 4, 2012,” read a statement by Susan Stanford, Public Information Officer for Texas commission, as reported by Gabriel Montoya from MaxBoxing.com.

Now the questions has to be asked, how did The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations forget to book a drug testing laboratory for this event? This is not the first time that Texas has held a title fight fight in it’s state. The only thing one can say is…..”That’s boxing.”

 

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