First known PED case ??

I don't think they were capable of testing for PED's yet.

 

Medicine isn't good enough to make undetectable steroids.

 

They started testing for steroids in the 80’s when the technology was available, so basically every sport in the world had multiple cases of PED abuse starting at the time period.

 

1971
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Erbito_Salavarria_vs._Betulio_Gonzalez

 

Maxine Dempsey claimed that Jack used strychnine before his fights, which in small doses acted as a stimulant and pain suppressor, Before you guffaw, please to know that strychnine was used by marathon runners during the same era. Thomas Hicks, in particular, won the 1904 Olympic marathon while using the drug. It was later used in the Tour de France. And as recently as 2016, a Kirgyhz weightlifter was busted for its use in the Rio Olympics.

 

Interesting note about testing...Testing was rare enough in the 90's, but nonexistent in the 80's. Why would they test for something they didn't bother to ban?

Here's an article from 1989 where Tommy Hearns calls out Sugar Ray Leonard for being on steroids:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/0...-Leonards-newly-bulging-biceps/2795613281600/

An excerpt:

"Neither the Nevada State Athletic Commission or the WBC includes steroids on its list of banned drugs. NSAC executive director Chuck Minker said Hearns' camp has not requested any test for steroids."

 

As it was quoted earlier in the thread, the first champion to ever lose his belt accussed of PED usage was WBC's flyweight champion Erbito Salavarria from the Phillippines. He went to Maracaibo, Venezuela in late 1971 to defend against local hero Betulio Gonzalez. Mills Lane was the referee. After lots of controversy with the scoring, the fight was declared a draw, with Salavarria keeping his belt, but the local boxing commission found a suspicious bottle in Salavarria's corner and after sending it to the lab it was determined that it contained amphetamines. The WBC stripped Salavarria and awarded the belt to Gonzalez, even though the fight went to both fighter's records as a draw. Salavarria always denied using anything but sweetened water, and denounced the local commission for foul play. The very first championship fight to ever have doping controls was the 3rd fight between Mando Ramos and Pedro Carrasco, held in spain in 1972. Ramos was found with a high level of amphetamines, but his decision win over Carrasco wasn't overturned since no rules about fdoping were in effect, so Ramos was breaking no rules.

 

I like this part, "Leonard says he has built his upper body through increased work on the heavy bag." Not the strangest one I've seen, I remember a local kid going to college to play football. The next summer the local newspaper interviewed him, the kid had gained weight, cut body fat and waist size, gotten much stronger and faster. He was asked what he had been doing and he told the reporter that he stopped eating Hershey bars. The reporter ran the article and never questioned the Hershey bar story.

 

Lennox Lewis had textbook HGH gut.

 

Canelo's cousin.Alejandra Jimenez is the first woMAN to test postive

 

Babe Ruth used to eat a dozen hot dog before games. Hot dogs had tons of preservatives in them in those days....still do. Obviously the drugs in them dogs helped him hit those 714 homers.

 

Eating dozens of hotdogs before a sporting event, Im surprised he didn’t hurl.