Heavyweight fighter Jaameel 'Big Time' McCline appears irritated with the Peter's corner in his recent title fight in New York. ESPN carries the story.
Earlier this week, Scott Hirsch (the manager of Jameel McCline)
announced his intention to file an official protest with the WBC
regarding his fighter's loss by decision to Samuel Peter at Madison
Square Garden on Oct. 6. Team McCline is not seeking to overturn the
decision (which would require a ruling by the New York State Athletic
Commission). Rather, it's asking that the WBC order a rematch based on
the silly contention that (1) referee Mike Ortega gave Peter too much
time to recover from the knockdowns he suffered in round three, and (2)
the fight was closer than the judges' scorecards indicated. In his
announcement, Hirsch made the mandatory declaration, "We have a
tremendous amount of respect for Jose Sulaiman and the WBC."
This fight almost didn't go on, because of allegations of McCline's PED use. According to ESPN, Big Time is a big time PED user: HGH and anabolic steroids:
Team McCline would be better off focusing its energy on reports that a
grand jury has heard testimony that McCline received more than $12,000
worth of steroids, human growth hormone and related drugs in 2005 and
2006.
Ironic, huh, McCline's camp complaining of misconduct or cheating, when apparently the challenger was a huge drug-cheat himself.
'Big Time' means 'big time juicer'.
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