Mayer Reacts To Baumgardner’s Positive Test – ‘Her Credibility Is Shot’

Mikaela Mayer has reacted to Alycia Baumgardner’s positive test, as the sport of boxing struggles to cope with drugs.

According to reports, the undisputed junior lightweight champion failed a drug test for two substances. This was in the run-up to her fight with Christina Linardatou on July 15th, 2023. Although that may have been the case, Baumgardner denied doing any wrongdoing.

This was on the basis that two tests immediately in the aftermath of the fight produced negative results. But given that Mayer did face Baumgardner last year, she had a few choice words to say about it all.

After all, Mayer did come second best to Baumgardner in a unification.

Mayer On Baumgardner

“She screwed up big time. Now everyone thinks that she needed to cheat to get there. Her credibility is shot. It’s gone. Not only that, it doesn’t matter the consequences she faces.

“People are always going to wonder. Her credibility is gone now. So we don’t know. But everybody has to go through due process…These were some serious hardcore PEDs, and two of them.

“I feel bad for her. I think her career is f—– now. But I feel bad for her. She needs to go handle that. It’s not my problem. It’s her problem,” Mayer

Baumgardner’s positive test was just one fighter of a few to have failed a test. Conor Benn, Dillian Whyte and Robert Helenius had shown that more fighters are getting caught with substances in their system.

That will only lead to increase in calls for more testing in order to hold fighters to account. And with that, it is clear that more measures need to be in place in order to hold fighters to account.

That is something Mayer was keen on seeing in light of the increasing number of positive tests.

Mayer’s Frustration

“What pi**es me off is now everyone else is now saying, ‘Oh everyone is on that stuff. Oh, everyone is on it. Everyone is juicing now.’ And that’s not true. There’s plenty of us out here competing clean and honest,” Mayer

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