How do fighters live with themselves cheating with PED's when their opponent is 100% clean?

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  1. Thesenuts

    Thesenuts Member banned Full Member

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    Do they not feel bad knowing they beat their opponent with an unfair advantage?
     
  2. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    They do it by telling themselves that everyone else is doing it, and they're just leveling the playing field.
     
  3. Kratos

    Kratos Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Most people throw away their dignity when they are making big money and then they justify it when they see how well their family is living, but they know deep down they are frauds and don't deserve respect from people.
     
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  4. kriszhao

    kriszhao Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ask convicted PED cheat Tyson Fury maybe he will have an answer.
     
  5. Forza

    Forza Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    its called prize fighting
     
  6. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yep this, which is why so many fighters accusing other fighters of PED's often end up being done for using PED's themselves. Their mindset is, I would cheat, so every body else must be too, when the reality is honest people do not cheat and do not expect others to cheat while cheaters expect everyone of cheating, so point fingers while cheating themselves.
     
  7. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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  8. DanielDimov

    DanielDimov Jabbing all night Full Member

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    Exactly this. Everyone uses some extra boosts, it is a matter of you are going to get caught or not.
     
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  9. 40ozoe

    40ozoe Member Full Member

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    It's boxing isn't it? The goal is to knock your opponent out right? Or is it to communicate with him or to be intimate with him or what? The thing across that ring from you is the enemy, the enemy has to be destroyed, it really doesn't matter how you do it.
     
  10. KernowWarrior

    KernowWarrior Bob Fitzsimmons much bigger brother. Full Member

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    Because you win at all costs, or well certainly as much as you can get away with, be that Dempsey being assisted back into the ring against Firpo, Cassius Clay having the tear in his glove 'enhanced' by Angelo Dundee in the Cooper fight, or Marciano going totally against the rule book with his fouls, the list goes on.

    How would a fighter know if their opponent was 100% clean?
     
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  11. GGGfans

    GGGfans Active Member Full Member

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    All top boxers have been doped for a long time.
     
  12. Vegan Beast

    Vegan Beast Grandpappy Ortiz Full Member

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    1. Mo money
    2. Mo bitches
    3. Mo respect
    4. Mo belts
     
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  13. James Page

    James Page Active Member banned Full Member

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    No honor amongst theives
     
  14. markclow

    markclow Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Wrong.
    What matters is that you know your authenticity, that you know you never cheated.
    Even if you dont win the ultimate prize, you have your dignity.
     
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  15. 40ozoe

    40ozoe Member Full Member

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    Not sure what sort of success you have achieved in life but in order to achieve success you must always leave behind a piece of your dignity. Many would describe me as a highly successful individual but believe you me there are things that I wish I had done differently, instances where I wish I had been less greedy etc. But such is life and nobody is perfect. I have no issues with fighters using peds, their body their choice. An unskilled fighter may be attempting to make up for the lack of skill, an old fighter the lack of youth, a fighter that doesn't have much time to train for the lack of that opportunity. It doesn't matter the least bit.