Reading the thread I see more people seem to be Pro-Steroid/PED than those opposed. It's just my opinion, but acceptance of artificial enhancements seems to be connected to the level of integrity and morality of the person, but that's just me and the way I was raised. IMH, it's like lying and stealing, or cursing in-front of one's mother. I'm 97 years old and the world has changed. Genetic manipulation is an abomination. If it weren't, there wouldn't be so many unpredicted side-effects. Best to live life the way God planned then to become demonic.
Exactly. That's the hypocrisy of many sports fans. They revere the athletes with incredible speed and power putting on super-human performance but when you ask about PEDs they act like there's no place in sport for drugs. If these fans ever saw a "clean athlete" they'd mock and dismiss the same athlete for his lack of physical prowess.
Totally agree 100% cause re morality what gets me is how the big sports companies who sponsor em know what's going on but at the first whiff of a scandal they throw their athletes under the bus as do their fellow athletes but it's all for public show which truly shows something about their morality I think. I'm not pro PEDs but when I say the athletes themselves don't view it as cheating I'm not condoning it just stating a fact. The dangers in boxing with PEDs make it particularly shady
Jack Johnson didn't use PEDs. Joe Louis didn't use PEDs. Sugar Ray Robinson didn't use PEDs. Jake Lamotta didn't use PEDs. Muhammed Ali didn't use PEDs. George Foreman didn't use PEDs. Larry Holmes didn't use PEDs. Sugar Ray Leonard didn't use PEDs. Marvin Hagler didn't use PEDs. Lennox Lewis didn't use PEDs. Draco. He used PEDs. Vitali Klitscho. He used PEDs.
None of those fighters you mentioned underwent WADA caliber drug testing. They didnt start testing for steroids till the 80's, and in boxing till the 90's.
its not political, it improves blood flow in the heart. improving blood flow in the heart is not political. except perhaps to you. I cant understand how you can be so badly, oppositely flawed in your judgement. I find Cheatapova utterly repellant, as I do anyone who sanctifies such a person or champions cheating. She makes me puke, can we move on or I might actually do this? Thank goodness her putrific face has been removed from advertising boards for the future so that young children are not exposed to her "be a bytch" advertising slogans. How utterly terrible that the last Winter Olympics were opened by a drug cheat. Russia should be ashamed and distance themselves from her as far as possible, as should any moral person.
36 people are obviously morons, let people who punch each other for a living increase the potency of their weapons hmmm good idea ..... Zero tolerance is the only way.
that you judge female athletes almost solely on looks, like peices of meat dressed up for your se.xual needs is pretty shocking. You are lucky few women use this board or you'd be torn apart for that.
Boxers aren't the brightest bunch as a general rule, I can easily see youngsters being misled and not really understanding the implications of what they are putting in their bodies. For first time offenders under a certain age I'd go with a 2 year ban, after that it's life.
They train for years to increase the potency of their weapons. Maybe we should ban heavy bag training, weight training and all intense training, because training tends to turn these men into far more dangerous men. Also, I think referees should perhaps have to power the disqualify boxers for punching too hard and too much. Fighters should be allowed to land three light punches per round, and fights cut to 4 rounds. Perhaps we could have a rule where the first man to land four punches is the round is a TKO winner, as long as they aren't thrown in combinations and as long as they aren't hard punches. Combinations and hard punches are too dangerous. If a boxer goes six punches ahead in the course of the fight, we stop it there too.