Am I the only one who thinks they should just legalize PEDs ?

IVs or Ostarine, take your pick

 

At this point let em all take PEDs **** it.

 

It’s not my life on the line, easy for me to say.

 

They wouldn't need to worry about retirement funds. Most would be dead well before their time.

 

I think they should have PEDs and non-PEDs leagues.

 

I still think that we should be celebrating clean athletes. Why make guys who abide by the rules and who don't want to inject that bull**** into themselves play against a stacked deck?

By legalising PED's you are basically forcing clean athletes to take risks with their health in order to stay competitive. That just isn't right.

 

The basic argument against (and not an unreasonable one) is that once you allow it for those who want to do it, you leave those who'd rather fight clean being compelled to taking them to avoid a handicap...
Especially in boxing where giving someone a free advantage that lets them dominate could leave you permanently handicapped.

So what happens if you legalize PEDs is you get fighters taking more and more - and other fighters taking more and more to keep up.


It's the same thing with weightbullying - the rules are there to try and mitigate against the risks of going into the ring dehydrated (from making weight), but they allow for massive draining and rehydration that gives fighters an advantage... And compels opponents to do the same.


There's a fine line between legal and illegal performance enhancement... You could draw it in loads of places and loads of ways - but you have to draw it somewhere, IMHO.

 

The problem is: if all PEDs are legal, you just know that there will be psychos out there taking noxious cocktails that will do them long term damage just to win their next fight. Soon guys will have to choose "do I take the Terminator 5000 brew and risk cancer, brain damage and anal leakage ... or do I get beaten down by Joe Bloggs who is using the Terminator 5000 cocktail?"

So yeah, keep PEDs out of it.

 

Exactly.

I don't care that much if guys wreck themselves with stupidity.

But making everyone else have to be wreckless to avoid being dangerously disadvantaged? There's the line.

 

If that happened, we'd be seeing boxers die every week. Allowing peds in boxing is like playing American football without a helmet.

 

Having boxed myself for about 10 years in the past. I've noticed a huge difference in PED users I have sparred. Their power goes through the roof and feels different.

Even my cousin who's never boxed was like a proper ***** and got juice for 8 weeks and suddenly had some weight on his punches.