The ESPN columnist suggested Povetkin, Ortiz, Brown and Briggs to hold the tournament without doping control

Alexander Povetkin
Alexander Povetkin

ESPN boxing columnist Dan Rafael in his annual "New Year wish list" stated as one of the points an offer to hold a four-man heavyweight tournament in which Alexander Povetkin, Luis Ortiz, Lucas Brown and Shannon Briggs participated, and they were allowed to use any of the available doping. All these boxers failed their doping test before important battles, some of them twice.

It is interesting that in May 2016 Andrei Ryabinsky, Povetkin's promoter, threatened to sue Raphael for allegedly calling Povetkin "PEDetkin". Whether Rafael received these claims, Ryabinsky and the American journalist himself have not mentioned yet.

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