Balco Scandal Boxing Nutritionist Victor Conte Dies at 75, SNAC Founder Became Anti-Doping Advocate
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
San Francisco, CA (November 3rd, 2025)– Victor Conte, who spent four months in jail in 2005 from the BALCO sports doping scandal, who later became a noteworthy sports nutritionist and trainer, and anti-PEDs anti-doping advocate, whose invention of the SNAC System-Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning worked to promote clean training and nutrition programs for boxers including Andre Ward, Nonito Donaire, Terence Crawford, Devin Haney, Jesse Rodriguez, and Claressa Shields, has died of terminal Pancreatic cancer at age 75.
As one of boxing’s most dark figures, he engineered perhaps one of the greatest personality comebacks in professional boxing and professional sports. Once the infamous king of supplying Performance Enhancing Drugs to doping fighters, he became the moral integrity of clean boxing instead, drawing on the experience of a lifetime of win at all cost mistakes to clean up professional sports, which he had had dirtied, and working with VADA to insure professional sports remained clean in his final years.
Conte first gained international infamy as a sports cheater as a central figure in the BALCO scandal, the San Francisco Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative which supplied anabolic steroids to athletes, rocked the professional sports establishment. BALCO used performance enhanced undetectable drugs such as Types of drugs included erythropoietin, Human Growth Hormones, Modafinil, Testosterone creams, and Tetrahydrogestrinone.
A Federal investigation identified an elaborate network of performance-enhancing drugs distribution to high-profile athletes across professional baseball, boxing, amateur track and field, and other areas of amateur and professional sports, destroying reputations and integrity at the cost of winning. The health of athletes was also jeopardized by the user of performance-enhancing drugs, and the long-term effects are still being felt.
The Balco scandal rocked the sports world. In boxing, former World Welterweight champion ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley got caught. Such Major League Baseball, NFL, and Track and Field athlete stars caught up in the Balco scandal included: Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, Dwain Chambers, Kelli White, Regina Jacobs, C.J. Hunter, Kevin Toth, John McEwen, Melissa Price, Chryste Gaines, Michelle Collins, Calvin Harrison, Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Jeremy Giambi, Benito Santiago, Armando Rios, Bobby Estalella, Bill Romanowski, Barret Robbins, Dana Stubblefield, Chris Cooper.
According to Wikipedia, as a result of the BALCO PEDs doping bust, then Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig instituted a new written MLB league policy. The first time a player fails a test for steroids, he is subject to an 81-game half-season suspension. For the second steroids offense, the penalty is a 162 the entire regular season game suspension. If a third steroids offense occurs, the player is given a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball.
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