Financial position of certain promotional companies suffers due to cancelations of fights

The Haitian-American professional boxer Andre Berto tested positive for Nandrolone. This athlete was tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA).
 Andre Berto was scheduled to fight against Victor Ortiz on June 23, 2012 in Los Angeles. Andre Berto agreed to submit to random drug testing before the match. Both “A” and “B” urine samples indicated about usage of the anabolic steroid Nandrolone.
It was already the second time this month, when the VADA tested fighters and caught them utilizing steroids. The first of them was the boxer Lamont Peterson. He had to fight against Amir Khan. It seems to be strange that Peterson requested random blood and urine testing. A carbon isotope ratio test conducted by the VADA manifested that testosterone of exogenous origin was in this fighter’s system certain weeks before the match.
The tests conducted by the VADA impacted on financial position of certain companies obviously. For example, Golden Boy Promotions lost essential potential profit due to Lamont Peterson’s positives. It was determined by the CEO of the company Richard Schaeffer that the company lost 250, 000 dollars.
The cancelation of the fight between Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz will probably not cost so much because Andre Berto will be possibly replaced by another boxer who will meet Ortiz.
As for the fighter Andre Berto, he didn’t explain what had caused his positives. He hired the attorney Howard Jacobs that would represent and defeat him.
Andre Berto confirmed that he had never taken steroids. Thus, he claimed that he investigated with his attorney what could lead to positives for steroids. The boxer Andre Berto concluded that he had never cheated; he succeeded in sport due to hard work and dedication.
The attorney Howard Jacobs represented numerous other sportspersons who turned out to be victims of fake food supplements.
It is confirmed that since the steroid Nandrolone has very long half life and it is detected easily, it is not widespread among doping sportspersons. But it has been manifested numerous times that certain dietary supplements contained the ingredient nandrolone that caused positives for steroids. But since sometimes not each ingredient is written on the label, sportspeople become victims of contaminated sport supplements.