No idea since I wasn't in Dinamita's camp or sitting in his car or staying in surveillance in his attic for that year.
All this yak yak yak, but if this was a problem and their was suspicion then why didn't Team Pac do anything about it? Oh that's right, cuz he probably doin the samething too. Eitherway, even playing field, even tho Pacman STILL younger, STILL faster, and was fighting at 147 way before Jmm did. Pacman weighed 147 Jmm could barely do 144. And Pacquiao STILL got his ass handed to him by the old Mexican legend.
Manny Pacquiao getting away with roiding allowed for other fighters possibly including Marquez to say "Faulk it" and roid themselves... So many PED cheats recently is a disgrace. Floyd Mayweather, cherry picking and fighting like a scared little bisnatch changed the way judges judge fights and allowed for amateur styles to be accepted as effective in Prize-fighting... Now boxing is is okay with having fighters afraid of punching and avoiding exchanges by using their feet to RUN away.
Pac never roided. If he did don't you think he would blow up in weight faster? Wouldn't he be knocking people out. Guy has knocked anybody out in 6 years, but them roids tho......
Thomas Hearns went from 154 to 175 in around two fights and nine months. He was around thirty years of age at this point.
He was 6'2" and had no choice really. He also got a little pudgier after he left 160 pounds. Marquez was 40 years old and all of a sudden became jacked and ripped.
Yes, Hearns had the frame for it and he carried the weight well. But it was still a big jump, 20 lbs in 9 months. I was just pointing out that it can be done. Others don't do it so well. Leonard, for example, also started at 147 and went up to 175. But he could never make the weight. He cheated on the scales and there were allegations of PED use even back then (no allegation against Leonard was ever substantiated I might add). I don't know what to say about Marquez, really. I don't like to point the finger unless there is clear evidence, but I don't doubt that PED use is a real problem in boxing. The whole sport is unbelievably corrupt.