In competitive sports, cheating has always been an issue. Performance-enhancing drugs have been at the forefront in sports since the 1970s.

While it is most often associated with team sports like football or baseball or an individual sport like track and field, there is no sport that it hasn't touched.

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OLYMPIC silver medallist Fred Evans and fellow Welsh star Andrew Selby celebrated a winning return on their Newport homecoming last night.

The duo both won as part of the newly-formed British Lionhearts team who defeated Italia Thunder in the World Series of Boxing at the Celtic Manor last night.

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Robert Guerrero has spent the last three years or so chasing the biggest names in his division.
He was challenging the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., the world's finest boxer and a super welterweight title-holder, when he was still a lightweight.

Robert Guerrero poses at Westside Boxing Club in Los Angeles. (AP)
Mostly, though, his cries have fallen on deaf ears. While he's sought the likes of Mayweather, Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao, he's gotten decidedly less sexy names like Joel Casamayor, Vicente Escobedo, Michael Katsidis and Selcuk Aydin.

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NABO junior welterweight champion Karim Mayfield wanted his HBO debut to be memorable.He achieved his goal, overwhelming Mauricio Herrera en route to a unanimous decision Saturday night on the Thomas Dulorme-Luis Carlos Abregu undercard at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y.

The three judges scored the fight for Mayfield, 96-94, 98-92 and 97-93. Mayfield also won the fight, 98-92, on ESPN.com's scorecard.

Through much of the fight, Mayfield found Herrera's chin with hard overhand rights. In the latter rounds, Mayfield forced Herrera against the ropes where he controlled the action inside.

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