{"id":109214,"date":"2025-09-02T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109214\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:37:06","slug":"michael-conlan-speaks-on-ped-use-ahead-of-jack-bateson-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/109214\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan Speaks on PED Use Ahead of Jack Bateson Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cBar my last fight, I\u2019ve been tested near all my fights,\u201d said the 33-year-old. \u201cBut that\u2019s only in the fights. That\u2019s not through the training camp because what I see, what I think of professional boxing is a lot of people say go, because when you\u2019re getting tested, unless you&#8217;re on VADA and something or stuff like that, it\u2019s \u2018in competition.\u2019 What\u2019s \u2018in competition?\u2019 It\u2019s on fight night. So if you\u2019re taking shit [drugs] in training camp, and by the time you get to fight night and you\u2019ve cycled it out, and then you&#8217;re fighting but you\u2019re clean on paper, you know, it\u2019s \u2018in competition.\u2019 That shit\u2019s out of competition. Who knows? It\u2019s just the way it is. Anything can happen. Anything goes. Nobody really cares. Zero people care really about you but yourself and your own family. Everybody, and maybe your coach, like you\u2019ve got good coaches, like Grant [Smith, who Conlan is with], you can tell he cares about his fighters and really wants security and safety for his fighters. And a lot of coaches are like that, obviously. But you do see a lot of coaches as well over the big names and they can make money off, they\u2019ll jump on it. There\u2019s people like that and they don\u2019t really care. They just want to earn what they&#8217;re going to earn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBar my last fight, I\u2019ve been tested near all my fights,\u201d said the 33-year-old. \u201cBut that\u2019s only in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,48733,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-109214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-michael-conlan","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}