Bellew interview on PEDs

You'd have a point if he was in his 30's or 40's, but the body responds to such stuff really well in the 20's.

Your 20's are your physical prime.

What, do you expect someone to not hit their physical prime until their 30's or must it stop after they hit 21?

 

Completely agree. If you knowingly do something that puts someone's life in grave danger then you must face the consequences.

In other sports I want to see clean competition because I look at sport as human potential and we don't get an accurate reading if people are cheating. However, ultimately, if everyone is doing it then you could argue it's fair game and up to the sportsman if they want to risk their health.

In fighting though, lives are on the line.

 

I maybe I'm ****ing naive...

but until someone fails a drugs test I can't think of them as a cheat.

I do believe people like joshua, haye, even some like madonna they have such amazing resources available to them - such as diet or expert training that it doesn't surprise me they get different results to lads going to fitness first 3 times a week.

Outside of boxing - usain bolt, if he ever got caught in a scandal i might stop watching sport all together.

 

I saw this interview a few days ago and I got the impression Bellew was talking about Joshua.

The key thing for me regarding Joshua is I struggle to understand how an athlete with the type cardiovascular routine his training will have, has been able to bulk up a couple of stone in a couple of years - this really is questionable IMO.

 

Just watched the video- well said Tony Bellew. I don't know who he was referring to but the arguments he put forward are replicas of the arguments that have been put forward about a popular British HW- so I would assume it was him.

David Haye had put on size but it was mostly fat, his body fat had went up significantly from his last fight- didn't appear anything unnatural about it.

 

Very good interview I thought, 100% agree on that as well, I don't know who he was referring to, Joshua is the obvious one that springs to mind but I trust the BBBofC when it comes to drug testing so im not sure it is him.

 

Those first two lines are my same opinion on the matter, as the saying goes innocent until proven guilty and that's something I stick by regardless of the context.

 

Yes Joshua has supreme genetics as does Haye. If they were training just for size as natural bodybuilders I would say they could reach those sizes. But there not training for size doing hypertrophy specific training. Boxing training doesn't lend itself to putting on muscle unless you have some assistance. Chemically that is.