Did Galento's attempts to smell terrible actually improve his performance?

Haye remarked how bad he smelled in the ring.

 

Yeah that tactic almost knock out Joe Louis. Louis was going in for a combo and before he knew it, he was on the ground taking a ten count.

 

Ew.

 

Baer is reported as saying of Galento "He smelled of rotten tuna and a tub of old liquor being sweated out".

 

Well you know, stuff can get caught there in between the fat folds and the moobs. He probably had mushrooms growing in there.

 

I’ve heard to get himself in a mood for fighting David Haye would stop receiving manicures and not visit his personal hair stylist for the entire fight week!

 

Well, this thread is grossing me out.

Is there anything you could safely take to temporarily suspend your sense of smell, at least for the duration of the fight?

What’s worse: loaded gloves or loaded armpits? The boxing authorities need to put a stop to this.

Ref’s should carry a B.O meter - if it reads beyond a certain threshold of STINK, the guilty fighter should be given the opportunity to deodorise on the spot - if he refuses then an automatic DQ should apply.

 

Oh gee, that’s funny!

By fight time, David would be feeling well and truly “tetchy”. Without those nails properly attended to, someone will surely get their eyes scratched out.

 

Sure, then he could open up a saloon and call it Stinky Tony's. Ha Ha.

 

The humour in some comments can cause a “spit your coffee out” type of reaction.

For me, this one has induced involuntary, convulsive dry retching. The humour is very good but the overriding physical reaction is nausea.

Imagine the assorted and potentially deadly viruses Galento’s body played host to?

Galento, a living, breathing chemical weapon of mass destruction.

Coincidentally or not, the A bomb dropped on Nagasaki was named Fat Man - just say’n’.

 

Tony's body may have created Buster The Body Crab, Ha Ha. Gong !

 

Oscar said Ike kinda stunk when he fought quartey!

 

We had a co worker who smelled like something died on him, we worked Hospital Security together in 1986. We all got together and bought him a bar of Dial Soap, left it in his mailbox at work. He was a little upset at first, then realized that we were right.

 

Pepe Le Pew lives.

 

It would be interesting to see the effect on women. Valuev might be pure musk odor.