The final cherry atop the surprisingly epic duel that was Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III was delivered this week when it was announced that both fighters tested clean of any banned substances.
According to Keith Kizer, the Nevada State Athletic Commission found that Pacquiao and Marquez tested negative in both their pre-fight and post-fight performance-enhancing drug (PED) tests. And while most folks generally accepted the notion that that what they witnessed on November 12 was the end result of a particularly impressive effort by Marquez versus a guy that was a massive favorite going into the fight, conspiracy theories were running rampant in certain dark holes on the internet.
For one thing, in the days leading up to the fight, news broke of Marquez’s trainer, Angel Hernandez, being involved with the infamous BALCO Lab scandal some years back. The generally shadiness as it relates to that endeavor coupled with the prominent role PEDs have had in all things Pacquiao-related over the last couple of years left a bad taste in the mouths of many.
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