“He’s taking performance-enhancing drugs, gets stripped of his title, gets a ban, and then gets put by the same sanctioning body…in the weight division above as a mandatory challenger,” Spencer Oliver said during the discussion. “He’s getting rewarded for actually taking performance-enhancing drugs.”
The criticism of Janibek’s treatment is understandable. What’s amusing is the failure to apply anything resembling the same scrutiny to Sheeraz’s route to the WBO championship.
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