What Are the Rules of Steroid Use in Boxing?
Boxing has long since banned the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. It’s important in a sport in which participants are using their strength to try to inflict damage upon one another. With no unified national sanctioning body, the rules for boxing sometimes vary from state to state, making them difficult for people, even professional boxers, to understand. Testing After the Fight Tests for steroids are usually performed immediately after a fight concludes. This post-fight drug test is performed to ensure that fighters do not take any substances before or during the fight that can improve their performance. No Testing During Training There are no additional mandatory steroid or performance enhancer tests leading up to a fight during training. This has left the door open for some criticisms on a lack of accountability in the sport’s steroid testing policies. State-to-State Suspensions Without unified rules throughout the entire sport, it is often difficult to establis
