Joshua Gaining Weight Again

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  1. Jurgen

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    Are you related to the Godfather of Grime - Wiley mate?
     
  2. Optimus Grime

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    Dont think i went that far tbh
     
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  3. chico g

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    Joshua gonna come in looking like Andy Ruiz, with the big beer belly and taco moustache against Pulev I reckon.
     
  4. Unforgiven

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    Yeah, I respect that. :thumbsup:
    I noticed that the TonyHayers character chimed in to say what was "wrong" with what Twentyman said, when it was clear Twentyman was a voice of reason too ... then you came back and said actually "I was a bit of an ass" ... but TonyHayers continue to make his ridiculous point about "internet actual experts" versus "internet weirdos", which I made fun of.
    It's all good fun anyway.

    Fair enough. :thumbsup:

    Like I said in my post a few pages back, Joshua's great physique in and of itself, is not proof of his PED use, since it's clearly mostly a genetic thing, and a lean ripped 250 pounds at 6'6 is somewhat plausible for an athletic genetic specimen, though probably an outlier.
    .... and I thought your point about Povetkin and Miller was good. An aesthetic physique such as AJ's grabs people's attention so, yeah, he gets a lot of steroid questions for that. But that in itself at his height/weight shouldn't be the determining factor.
    His lean weight changes in recent times are interesting though, to put it mildly.
     
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  5. Unforgiven

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    I think Bruno was probably on steroids in those last few years.
    He started out at about 215 but was young and growing. At 220 and 230 he looked ripped, that was his prime weight.
    Then he was going up to 247 at the end. That seemed a bit far-fetched.
     
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    Never apologise :) Rule number 1.
     
  7. tdf1974

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    So,

    You are accusing people of an anti Matchroom agenda?

    Would that make you have a pro Matchroom agenda(shill)

    Plus unless you have AJs bloodwork from the past 8 years you are only going off your own opinion like everyone else.....

    There is no Jackpot prize for being right in this situation,it is a boxing forum not a courtroom ,where i doubt your masters degree in boiling an egg would be useful anyway ....
     
  8. Heisenberg

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    100%. Lennox also went from 230lbs to 260lbs during his career
     
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  9. Optimus Grime

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    No that does not make a “matchroom shill” it means i see people with a clear anti matchroom agenda. Thats it.

    Its the same as me saying your a Warren shill for asking questions of AJ. What your doing is 1+1 =7 type arguments.

    Well no its not opinion that AJ hasnt failed a drugs test or been punished by a governing body, thats fact. I know you will say “but AJ is the golden goose” but tell me this why did Canelo get popped for PEDs when he makes even more money that AJ for lots of people and in a more corrupt country ? (I asked this before but its fine i know you will ignore this because you dont have a coherent argument).

    Bring ming up the masters you seem very bitter. Lets not forget its you who called me a dyslexic spastic over an internet forum.
     
  10. Optimus Grime

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    True but wasn't the 260lbs in his final fights against vitali ?
     
  11. tee_birch

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    He is probably on them, like 95% of other fighters. However, until he tests positive there is very little you can do
     
  12. ryanm8655

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    I’m not anti matchroom or AJ. I also started out in the “fat blokes on the Internet are just jealous” camp. But having done my research it’s pretty obvious AJ is using PEDs. They are absolutely rife in elite level sport. I’m a big rugby fan and it was gutting learning that they’re almost certainly on them too.

    The people that get caught are the ones that mess up/go too far.

    I don’t hold it against him though, most are at it.
     
  13. Unforgiven

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    That was a strange one because Eddie Hearn (who'd been talking with McCracken and AJ and had seen them in the gym) just a couple of weeks out was confidently saying AJ would be coming in light for that one, about 238, and then AJ turned up for Takam at 254.
    i can't see a motive for Hearn to have made it all up ..... and not sure how he got it so wrong .... but it's perhaps another piece of evidence that shows the variations in the amount of muscle mass AJ might hold from one month to the next.
    For a guy who's so devoid of body fat, and pretty much always in some sort of training, his degree of weight varying is unusual.
     
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    Lewis needed to put weight on. He looked like Bambi until around '95. The mass worked for him, IMHO.
     
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    Pulling a Bernard light it seems.Covid-19 layoff is great for puling stunts like that.
    I expect guys like Canelo to come out of quarantine looking like the incredible hulk too.
     
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