Can Performance Enhancing Drugs Improve Your Boxing Skills?

They allow you to train harder, and longer and get better results. So while they don't improve your skills they allow to train at these skills for longer without fatiguing so you can improve more in a shorter period of time.

 

This.

And if you're better conditioned in the ring, you're more likely to concentrate and make better usage of whatever skills you may have.

 

better question is, can PED change the outcome of a fight?

 

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Also great avatar

 

Good point.

 

Lol Thanks! :good

 

Do those weight-loss drugs make it a lot easier for you to shed the weight? If they do, then I presume you'll feel a little better in your training as you're not having to make extra effort in starving yourself. So, I guess it enhances your preperation to an extent? Thus making you feel good in the week of the fight, the weigh-in, and the actual night when you replenish.

 

True. Much like a certain Chavez Junior we know :think

 

Yes it can...if you take any lightweight right now and give them peds, they can beat most welterweight right now.

 

I don't think they're the same 'type' of transgression, but it doesn't make it right.

One of the reasons they're on the banned list is because most of them are downright dangerous when over-used; some risking severe dehydration. If they weren't banned, it'd be giving boxers a green light to play an even more dangerous russian roulette with their weight drops.

Part of the problem here is nothing to do with the drugs; it's that there's a severe issue with hitting the weight limits anyway. It's always been a limbo-game where boxers try and get under the weight-limit at the weight-in and then rehydrate. In the sixties they moved the weigh-in to the day before so that boxers weren't dehydrated during the fight (even more dangerous).

I personally think they should reconfigure the whole weight structure and the weigh-in procedures to get rid of the gamesmanship. But it will never happen.