{"id":61198,"date":"2015-09-11T02:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61198"},"modified":"2015-09-13T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T16:46:07","slug":"mayweather-allegedly-took-iv-infusions-before-pacquiao-megabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/11\/mayweather-allegedly-took-iv-infusions-before-pacquiao-megabout\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather allegedly took IV infusions before Pacquiao megabout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA \u2013 Still undefeated American boxer Floyd \u201cMoney\u201d Mayweather Jr. was reportedly given retroactive exemption for the controversial multivitamins he took before fighting Filipino boxing icon Manny \u201cPacman\u201d Pacquiao in their May 2 bout billed as the \u201cFight of the Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to an SB Nation report, Mayweather received IV injections three weeks before the megafight. This did not conform to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWada has justified the inclusion of IV infusions on the Prohibited List given the intent of some athletes to manipulate their plasma volume levels in order to mask the use of a prohibited substance,\u201d the organization maintained, referring to its 2015 Wada Prohibited Substances and Methods List.<\/p>\n

Still, the American pound-for-pound king was granted a therapeutic use exemption for the intravenous medication by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).<\/p>\n

Mayweather\u2019s camp, for their part, admitted that the boxer took IV fluids which contained a mixture of multivitamins and salines. They clarified that these were not banned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not commit any violations of the Nevada or USADA drug testing guidelines\u2026 I follow and have always followed the rules of Nevada and USADA, the gold standard of drug testing,\u201d Mayweather asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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