"After Wilder's Won, Does Povetkin Become a Bum?" Wilder v Povetkin SHOWTIME May 21st Fight Thread

[Stinky Diver]

this shyt isnt even set to be on american TV and there has been ZERO promotion for it

Can't promote what we can't see. Haymon more than anything needs to lockdown this fight on tv first. He's failed Wilder enough already with promoting.

 

[malbaker86]

Sooooooooooo, at this point, we're gonna have to stream the fight?????

 

[krackdagawd]

I thought this was going to be on Sho?

 

[Axum Ezana]

idk why the Russians are giving them a hard time...wouldn't that be more money n exposure if its on shotime?

 

[Box Cutta]

If we all end up on a Russian stream not understanding shyt....

 

[Stinky Diver]

I thought this was going to be on Sho?

Man, hell nah.

-We're gonna be huddled around the computer lookin' dusty.

-Gonna hear 2nd hand reports of Wilder being hauled off by the Politsiya after he knocks out Povetkin.

-Somehow, @HARLEM AL will be able to watch this LIVE through his "cable provider"

 

[OfTheCross]

In

 

[patscorpio]

-Somehow, @HARLEM AL will be able to watch this LIVE through his "cable provider"

 

[HARLEM AL]

Man, hell nah.

-We're gonna be huddled around the computer lookin' dusty.

-Gonna hear 2nd hand reports of Wilder being hauled off by the Politsiya after he knocks out Povetkin.

-Somehow, @HARLEM AL will be able to watch this LIVE through his "cable provider"

Lmfaoooo worst case homie I'm watching it on my phone. That app for Android that my Ring breh put me on is beastly....

If it come on early I'm good... But it comes on at night I'm fukked.... my girl probably going to want to go out...

 

[HARLEM AL]

Can't promote what we can't see. Haymon more than anything needs to lockdown this fight on tv first. He's failed Wilder enough already with promoting.

It's kind of to late. I'm pretty sure the networks have the spot locked up..

 

[Axum Ezana]

looks like showtime is gonna have on there.

 

[BujuBoombastic]

Alexander Povetkin tests positive for meldonium; fight vs. Deontay Wilder in question

Heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin has tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, putting his mandatory shot at world titleholder Deontay Wilder in jeopardy.

Russia's Povetkin, who is supposed to challenge Wilder in a much-anticipated bout on May 21 at the Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow, tested positive for the substance in a urine test conducted by the Las Vegas-based Voluntary Anti-Doping Association on April 27, according to the agency's report, which was issued Friday and first obtained by ESPN.com.

VADA president Dr. Margaret Goodman sent a letter Friday informing both camps as well as the WBC, whose title Wilder holds, of the positive test.

"This letter is to advise you that the 'A' sample urine specimen number 3969608 collected from Alexander Povetkin on April 27, 2016 in Chekhov, Russia through his participation in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) program has been analyzed for anabolic agents, diuretics, beta-2 agonists, stimulants and drugs of abuse," Goodman wrote. "The results of the analysis are as follows: Adverse. Urine specimen contains meldonium."

The report also included a copy of the laboratory report.

"Mr. Povetkin has the right to promptly request analysis of the 'B' sample at his expense," Goodman wrote. "Please be aware that VADA does not adjudicate results nor determine whether sanctions are appropriate. As with all results, adverse findings are reported to the relevant commission(s) who may make such determinations."

Meldonium, the same drug for which tennis star Maria Sharapova recently tested positive, was approved to be added to the banned substance list by the World Anti-Doping Agency in September and the ban went into effect Jan. 1. Meldonium is used because it is said to increase blood flow and allow more oxygen to be carried to the muscles and, therefore, enhance stamina, a trait boxers would want in a long fight.

Povetkin's levels were said to be very low, but it remains to be seen if the fight will be canceled.

"Traces of extremely low concentration of meldonium have been found in his blood. He consumed it in September last year," Povetkin promoter Andrey Ryabinsky of World of Boxing said, according to the Russian TASS news agency. "He has not taken it since Jan. 1. The situation is ambiguous. The blood sample was taken in April this year. We have been in contact with the World Boxing Council, which is to decide if Povetkin's boxing bout against Deontay Wilder will take place or not."

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Russian Povetkin tests positive for meldonium

Cheating ass cac.

#Bombsquad

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

So is this off now? Who does Wilder fight if this gets cancelled? Would love to see him give Joseph Parker that work... fukk that kiwi bytch

 

[BujuBoombastic]

So is this off now? Who does Wilder fight if this gets cancelled? Would love to see him give Joseph Parker that work... fukk that kiwi bytch

No word from his camp yet. I doubt he'll fight cacvetin and who blame him if he doesn't want to fight him.

 

[desjardins]

Damn why all the Russians using this drug?
They just banned it in January and they said he had extremely low levels of it so maybe he stopped using when it was banned but shyt was still in his system couple months later when they tested for it in April.
I hope they still fight.