Boxers who lived clean?

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  1. Titan1

    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Howard Davis Jr.
     
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    Shout out to Ricky Burns from Scotland.
     
  3. Rope-a-Dope

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    Like Jofre, also a vegetarian.
     
  4. Mike Gould

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    Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Floyd Patterson
     
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    I agree, Howard Davis jr.
     
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    Mitch blood "Michelle Cicelli Tyson" Green! LOL
     
  7. JackSilver

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    How the hell do we know how clean a life a boxer has? For all I know they could all be smoking, drinking and taking drugs behind closed doors. I used to think Leonard was the squeaky clean character we saw on TV yet it was revealed he was a drink and drug fiend away from the ring and cameras

    Yeah and been vegetarian don’t mean **** either. Haye was a vegan but his body was still failing apart from all the excesses he was doing.
     
  8. ChrisJS

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    With the exception of when he admitted to getting wrecked for three days straight after winning the world title, Freddie Welsh was a clean living and innovative fitness freak fighter. Also vegetarian - for the most part.
     
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    LOLL
     
  10. BundiniBlack

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    Link?
     
  11. NoNeck

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    Ali was on all sorts of **** for the Holmes fight.
     
  12. NoNeck

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    Hagler wasn't all the way there.
     
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    Tim Bradley
    Andre Ward
     
  14. The Undefeated Lachbuster

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    Rocky Marciano had an almost freakish obsession with his bodily health and avoided things that were even rumored to be bad
     
  15. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    He also ran around on his wife on a steady basis from what I remember reading