(AUG 14) Yesterday as I was enjoying a little time off from updating WBAN and spending time with family, I received a link to an article with the headliner:   "Former world champion boxer St. John admits to doping during career" written by Insidethegame.com. 

I have to admit that it took me completely off guard, and at first thought this has to be "fake news" as we hear our US President state so often.....but no folks it is neither fake, and comes from the mouth of babes---Mia St. John.

She said on the Boxing.com site, her reasoning for coming clean, in which she said the following:  

“It’s not right, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s a vicious cycle we get caught up in. You’re in a gym. You’re in a big camp. Obviously, I was part of the biggest shows of my time. “So when your camp is doing it, it’s going around the gym, your sparring partners are doing it, you feel compelled—‘Oh my God, I have to do it’—to keep up with everybody. It’s a mind trick. And once you’re on it, it’s so hard to come off because it becomes very addicting. That’s what people don’t know. I’m not going to say what fights because then people can trace back to what cards I was on, what camp I was in, who I was training with… I would never out anybody.”

In the LA Times, they wrote: Former boxer Mia St. John admits using PEDs in wake of Alvarez-Golovkin controversy". 

St. John tweeted, “Whatever. Everyone does it & everyone in boxing knows it,” then admitted last Saturday that she used performance-enhancing substances during her own career.

St. John's said  to LA Times,  "Obviously, I'm a Canelo fan, but I hate it when other fighters put down other fighters for something we all know is rampant in boxing,"  She went on to say, "I never once tested positive, and I've never told anyone this, but now that I'm retired I feel like it's okay."

So what were the substances that St. John said she delved into while boxing professionally?

She told the Los Angeles Times in an extended telephone conversation last Saturday that she used steroids including Winstrol, Deca Durabolin and Anavar, along with banned masking agents and weight-loss substances to prepare for an estimated 20 fights. Link to article

The boxing community did not either agree with her that everyone does it, or mostly everyone does it, and WBAN's Facebook forum professional boxers, past and present, along with trainers, and more gave their own heated-thoughts on this newly confessed doping revelation.

Some boxing folks are outraged and feel that anything she earned, title wise or otherwise should be stripped due to the doping "outing" St. John has revealed this week.

In regards St. John's thoughts that were posted on social media...

St. John said that she plans to attend the Golovkin-Alvarez rematch and is prepared to defend her stance if confronted by anyone in person or on social media.

She said, “Instead of shaming, let’s search for answers. Let's ask fighters to find a way to deal with it instead of insulting and hurting each other. All that does is make people hide and stay quiet about it … look at me.”