Champion boxers who smoked???

I only knew of Mayorga.

 

Monzon was a mofukin chimney man. Even a madman like Mayorga would think Monzon is mad.

 

Duran for awhile was sponsored by Viceroy wasn't he? Probably got hooked up too.

 

Never heard that JG.

Say it ain't so for Sugar Ray and Joe Louis!?

 

Good memory, you're right, he was.

He even wore their logo (a pack with one cigarette extending out) on his trunks.

I always thought that was so strange.

 

Also heard that Daniel Zaragza was a heavy smoker while a world champion !!

 

Mayorga smoking was an act imo, he might have smoked weed but not cigarettes.

He didn't even inhale the smoke in that entire video.

 

Sorry to rain on the parade, FM, but SRR 'n Louis (partial to cigars), as well. In the '30s 'n '40s, smoking, like drinking, was a boy's rite of passage.

 

If I'd only known.....I'd never have abstained.

:|

 

It's well known he is an inveterate smoker.

 

Toney, cigar smoker..............

 

Hatton got knocked out by someone and smoked heavily ever after :smoke

I guess the hardest punch he received in his life changed his habits :good:smoke

 

Didn't Rachman smoke pot? Livingston Bramble used to smoke pot, remember?

 

Would smoking after training do any harm? Or on a day when you aren't training?

Smoking is bad for fitness because obviously it damages the lungs, but also because it restricts oxygen getting to the muscles. Well, what if you hadn't smoked on a training day, or within a few hours of training?

I wouldn't criticise a fighter for having a few on a night out. The binge drinking will be far worse than a few ***s

 

Most of the classic boxers from the 1910s and 20's used to smoke inbetween rounds.