Why are boxing fans so much more forgiving of peds than loaded gloves?

Roids only help with endurance, it doesn`t help a fighters power while loaded gloves makes punches more painful etc. The drugs taken by athletes differ widely based on the performance needs of the sport.

 

Because every top athlete in almost every sport is doing it....why wouldnt you?

You wouldnt fill a racing car with cooking oil and expect it to perform well

 

Knuckledusters can maim for life. Give a boxer a choice: he can do peds, or have loaded gloves every fight. Which do you think they will take?

 

I think loaded gloves is worse, but I totally agree people should be more critical of the use of PEDs.
Muscle strength, endurance, punching power, rehydrating 20+lbs, all things that can easily be done with PED's and give huge and often dangerous advantages in the ring.
Remember G. Jones v Lebedev? Everyone watching was surprised how Jones ever made the Cruiser limit looking 240+ lbs at the night. He just kept coming while getting outboxed, deforming Lebedev's face and eventually winning by stoppage, and Lebedev's health and career at risk. Then he got busted, and there was your answer.

Fans also seem to forget about a fighter's drug history after their careers. The phrase "Prime Toney/prime Holyfield/prime RJJ would have destroyed that guy" is often used, while knowing that those fabled versions were obviously the drug fueled ones.

 

Because loaded gloves can kill people, it's like being hit with a piece of brick

 

Loaded gloves can kill a man and lead to permanent brain damage. There have been a number of tragic cases of that happening. For example, that rat Luis Resto vs Billy Collins Jr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Collins_Jr.)

Almost all the top guys are on PEDs these days, and it really just makes them fitter, gives them more endurance or allows them to train harder. It doesnt make them any better at boxing or give them the direct potential of killing someone or giving them permanent brain damage.
These days taking PEDs just allows you to be doing what all the other top guys are doing, and not be at a clear disadvantage beyond your control.


BIG difference between the two.

 

Cause loaded wraps is assault with a deadly weapon, while peds are naked to the eye, if that makes any sense.

 

Horrible thread

 

That is not true at all. One word, baseball.

 

of course it helps with power, speed and every other athletic aspect that there is to boxing.

 

Maybe because loaded gloves are a thing of the past, people do have short memories ?
PEDS, particularly steroids are only good for muscle building and short bursts of energy, still highly dangerous.
Tommy Morrison was hooked apparently, and Mercer took advantage after 4/5 rounds.

 

Because all fighters are on peds whereas not all fighters use loaded gloves

 

Ped's that's why almost everyone's on them

 

peds can be, and are, cycled. Loaded gloves can be checked on the spot.