What if Michael Dokes abused Steroids and not Coke???

He’d be Mr Olympia if we are talking equal usage.

 

Dokes didn't need more muscle, just a better chin and more stamina. So yeah, he probably would have been better.

 

No.

He needed more discipline.

Cocaine and sluts are not the recipe for a long prime.

 

I think he needed more cocaine, personally.

 

Not in his personal life haha

 

I often lament that the greatest boxer to ever come from my hometown was a cokehead smh.

That handspeed was something else, he really overachieved and underachieved at the same time

 

I got the impression he did both. Cocaine in the early 80s, steroids later (I heard he got really into the roids in the 90s).

 

He wasn't already on them?

 

When do you think steroids came into boxing on a more common basis? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were very commonplace in the 80s.

I can’t imagine how cocaine really helps a boxer. The high lasts like 15 minutes and then you feel like ****. If you do some bumps in the dressing room, the high will be over by the time the fight begins. I don’t see how you can administer it between rounds. Drinking it with your water will probably make you puke.

Same thing with football players, when people talk about LT. Unless LT found a way to snort it on the sidelines with his helmet on and nobody noticing, he would have to go back to the Giants locker room every change of possession to get high.

I would imagine that using speed was more likely (it obviously was widespread in baseball)

 

Look at him from the back in the 80s when he was champion, then look at him vs Holyfield or Ruddock from the back.
All I will say is steroids became a lot more popular in sports in the late 80s/90s.

 

Maybe he did. He went from under 200 lbs to 225

 

I feel like Panama Lewis found a way to give Pryor stimulants between rounds. Don't know it it was coke, though.

 

Cocaine definately improves your focus and hand eye coordination

One time I did some at a party and played Darts right afterward. I was hitting bullseye and normally I sucked at Darts