Former champ Sunny Edwards wants steroids legal in boxing

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Publish Date: 11/26/2024

Sunny Edwards calls for more PEDs in boxing.

In an interview with Boxing Scene, Edwards spoke testament to why he thinks drug testing should just be done away with outright. Somewhat controversial of a statement, Edwards brings up some good points on the topic.

Edwards is fighting Galal Yafai this weekend on DAZN for the WBC Interim World Flyweight title. That fight will happen on Nov. 30th and features an all UK main event.

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Sunny Edwards calls for more PEDs in boxing

While the statement is controversial, the UK’s Sunny Edwards has thought out this position thoroughly. His call isn’t for more use of performance enhancing drugs, but instead, a level playing field for everyone.

“Would you not agree that saying, ‘Alright, everyone can take everything’ is as level as a playing field, if not more level, than saying, ‘Alright, well there’s this testing’? Some people are abiding by it, but the ones that are clever and don’t get caught, now look, we have a more and further unlevel playing field than we would have had if we just said, ‘OK, look, in your 8-10 weeks before a fight, whatever you’re taking, whatever your supplements, protein, whatever, it might have some positive [effect]. It might have some negative, but that’s for you to find out.’”

Essentially, Edwards is saying that both the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency are ineffective.

Continuing, Edwards says that boxers should have a right to know about what their opponents are taking going into a fight instead of being left in the dark.

“A clean fighter versus a dirty fighter is the unsafest boxing ring that you’re going to see, and you create that by having things that some people might know how to jump through.”

Is boxing catching all the cheaters?

The results are mixed for drug testing in the sport of boxing with some believing it does not catch who matters and others believing it does.

Sunny Edwards doesn’t believe they do.

Instead he believes that if a boxer important enough, they will either be doping enough to skirt the system or simply will not get caught.

It’s worth noting that Ryan Garcia, one of boxing’s biggest stars, is having to skirt the system and take an exhibition in Japan for RIZIN. Other boxers that have failed various drug tests include Canelo Alvarez, Tyson Fury, and Roy Jones Jr.