Jarrell Miller comes clean on taking PEDs

[Ruthless-RKO]

Miller discusses the circumstances surrounding his failed drug tests.

In this sit-down interview with Fight Hub TV, Jarrell Miller talks about everything he’s been dealing with regarding his failed drug tests, and gives his version of events regarding what really took place. Check out some excerpts below with the full video interview above...

Miller on what’s been going on with him these last few months:

“It’s a lot of miscommunication, you know, just wrong information. Nothing was intentional. Dealing with an injury, I wanted to be 100% for my fight, you know. Everything that was released in the media, you know, prematurely, was just wrong information. You know, nothing was a testosterone boost, none of that was an anabolic steroid. It was something that does help with a ligament tear and I had bone spurs in my elbow that I’ve been dealing with since the Johann Duhuapas fight that promoters knew about, stuff like that.

“But it was just wrong homework on the medical side, that I didn’t do, to do my homework. You know, everybody knew about my injury but people — sometimes when it’s dirt being thrown, everybody moves out the way and let one person take it. But I’m the fighter, I’ll take it, I’ll deal with it. But when I come back I know who my true friends are and who’s really fighting for Big Baby and who’s on the Big Baby team.”

On what he claims was wrong with the reports that he failed three separate drug tests:

“It wasn’t three drug tests, it was two drug tests. The first drug test was the one I originally failed, it was GW1516 that we knew came from a tainted supplement. We’re still figuring out [which supplement it came from] because it’s in the labs right now. The crazy part about it was when I failed that, I was the one that asked to get the second drug test. They said ‘oh no, there’s no reason to because you failed the first one, the fight is already out the window.’ I said ‘no, I still wanna get drug test.’ When they drug test me for the second one, that’s when the HGH and [EPO came out] — so I’m the one that shot myself in the foot. A lot of people don’t even know about that, ‘cause they wasn’t even gonna do the second drug test.

“It’s when the second drug test came out, that’s HGH and EPO came out, which was a proprietary for the symptoms for my elbow. So it was like, damn, I messed up two drug tests, I know I did one, but I gotta take the blame for two...It hurts because when you’re really a real person and you wear your heart on your sleeve — I’m the kind of person if I mess up, I’ma man up and own it, you know what I’m trying to say? So that’s really what it came down to, but I feel like when people started going to the media, sort of talking to the media and didn’t know anything about it, that’s what really hurt the situation...

“If everybody sat down as a team and figured it out — regardless of whether it was Eddie Hearn or people that was on social media or people doing interviews behind closed doors, or talking to people that don’t even really know me, information could’ve came out a lot more different...”

On the the third failed drug test:

“There is no third test. There’s only two tests...when the information comes out from media or not from the source itself...stuff gets disorientated, man.”

On when he started taking HGH and EPO:

“That started — that was only one shot. It was a new proprietary blend and that only happened maybe like four days before I got tested. That was the first time I tried it for my elbow...

“I was sent articles on this stuff, man...I’ve got no reason to lie..HGH is for helping you lose weight, have I ever lost any weight in any one of my fights other than 10-15 pounds? Does it look like I wanna lose weight? No...when I was a kickboxer my stamina’s always been great. I don’t need that. I didn’t need any of that to beat AJ. He’s the one that had TUE’s in England for so many years, I never had any, see what I’m trying to say? This is the first I was going to try to do things the right way with VADA, and come to find out this is one of the situations that didn’t go the right way.”

On if he knew he was taking HGH and EPO while trying to treat his elbow:

“No, they told me it was a proprietary blend and I didn’t know what the compenents was and that’s the reason I didn’t do my due diligence, homework on it. It hurted so bad I said ‘give me the strongest one you got and let’s see if it’s gonna help me heal’ and like I said before, that’s not what I originally failed for. What we failed for was like nowhere, like anywhere we could think of...They got me for something that had nothing to do with the other so like I said before, it was bad homework and research and when you’re basically kind of self-managed and self-promoted for a long time like I was, I don’t trust nobody, I do a lot of things on my own. I do my own homework, do my own research, but this is one of them kinda things that when the stakes get higher and bigger, you gotta bring someone on the team that know what they’re doing and can guide you in these kind of situations...”

On the cloud of suspicion that has been cast on his whole career now:

“I mean listen, you can look at my past fight, my present fight, you can say I’ve gained weight, I’ve lost weight — like I said before, everything that was taken isn’t an anabolic steroid. You’ve got other fighters that have eaten meat that’s an anabolic steroid, or other fighters that have really taken testosterone. I ain’t take no testosterone, that’s not what I took. They can say what they want but when I make my return, when I’m 100% clean, everything by the book, what are they gonna say after that?”

[oogiebe]

Bvllshvt. Bollocks.

[Enlightened-One]

What percentage of fighters, from all those that have previously tested positive for banned substances, have openly-admitted to resorting to cheating in order to attempt to gain an unfair advantage over their opponent?

I actually can’t think of any, but there must be at least one example of a boxer manning up to what they did.

Regardless, Jarrell Miller clearly isn’t willing to admit his guilt for any of his wrongdoing anytime soon.

[chinarich]

It doesn’t really matter if he comes back at the same weight and fights in the same way displaying great stamina whilst being VADA enrolled and passing every test; the fact remains that he cheated....

[Syntax Error]

Jarrell Miller is the size and weight of an Argentinosaurus and he seriously expects us to believe that he's only taken HGH once?

As the great John McEnroe used to yell, "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!"

[ValMar]

If Miller had not been caught, the next opponents for Andy Ruiz would be : Ustinov, Breazeale, Dimitrenko........

[diddy]

Absolutely laughable. Bro, you took EPO. That has nothing to do with healing an injury, boss. Anyone that knows anything about these drugs knows nothing is contaminated with EPO. Ever.

[oogiebe]

Absolutely laughable. Bro, you took EPO. That has nothing to do with healing an injury, boss.

LOL! Right?! Nothing like making things worse.

[Nondescript]

He's clearly not telling the whole truth there.

That said, it's interesting that he alongside Whyte have both come out and said that AJ has got TUE exemptions for his fights.

More reporters need to actually look into that story and find out what is actually fact and that is conjecture.

[greg]

[diddy]

I would be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt....if not for the presence of the EPO. The EPO is the killer for me. It is BLATANT cheating because of the lung capacity it increases by adding red blood cells. Greatly increases stamina and work rate. Alot of guys use HGH, mainly to aid in recovery. Rampant in all sports. The NFL and NBA actually got their players union to block testing on it. Do you have any idea how many NFL players are on HGH? Most of them. EPO is nasty, nasty stuff.

[chinarich]

Absolutely laughable. Bro, you took EPO. That has nothing to do with healing an injury, boss. Anyone that knows anything about these drugs knows nothing is contaminated with EPO. Ever.

C’mon, mate, it was a “proprietary blend” I got the same thing from my doctor when I had tennis elbow

[diddy]

Jarell "Proprietary Blend" Miller.

[diddy]

Miller's greatest strength in the ring has always been his super high workrate in spite of his size. He carries alot of mass which burns out of most fighters quicker. I would almost guarantee he's been using EPO for years and years to sustain that workrate. It was just not caught because preparing to fight a kingpin in the sport he was sufficiently tested for the first time. 95% of drug tests dont test for EPO in combat sports bc its very expensive to test for. Put him back on the lower levels and he can probably safely take the stuff and they'll never find it. Put him in with Joshua, or Fury, or Wilder or someone like that and forget it.

[chinarich]

Jarell "Proprietary Blend" Miller.

[Paci]

I do think Jarrel "Big maybe" Miller is better.

Whata smug idiot.

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

Jarrell "big pharma" miller

It was all a big misunderstanding. Got it

[KiwiRider]

Bvllshvt. Bollocks.

Yep. Has had plenty of time to get a good spin on it and it still comes across as a load of old cobblers.

[oogiebe]

Saddest thing is that word is he's being considered as Fury's next opponent.

[ewenhay]

Absolutely pathetic interview.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I do wonder if the commissions take a hand in this, harder for them to license a fighter who plays the game and claims it was a mistake. Face saving exercise

[chinarich]

I do wonder if the commissions take a hand in this, harder for them to license a fighter who plays the game and claims it was a mistake. Face saving exercise

I’m just shocked that his suspension is the six months from the WBA and nothing seems to have been handed down by VADA...

[HomicideHenry]

You know what would really help in this PED bullshit.... If you get caught even once.... Then your entire boxing record ought to be rendered NO-CONTEST.... Every single fight, because you can't be trusted that your career was ever clean.

That'd stop the bullshit right there. A big asterisk right on your record: KNOWN DRUG CHEAT.

[jamesmcdonnell]

You know what would really help in this PED bullshit.... If you get caught even once.... Then your entire boxing record ought to be rendered NO-CONTEST.... Every single fight, because you can't be trusted that your career was ever clean.

That'd stop the bullshit right there. A big asterisk right on your record: KNOWN DRUG CHEAT.

May be difficult to enforce.

[JCS]

You know what would really help in this PED bullshit.... If you get caught even once.... Then your entire boxing record ought to be rendered NO-CONTEST.... Every single fight, because you can't be trusted that your career was ever clean.

That'd stop the bullshit right there. A big asterisk right on your record: KNOWN DRUG CHEAT.

So.. how about tainted supplements? Wouldn't this increase the probability of sabotage?

If you get a speeding ticket, should you get your license revoked permanently?

All "PEDs" are not treated equally... there should be punishments of course, but you can't label everything the same.. the chemicals vary, dosages vary... etc, etc.