Ali started the whole brown rice, chicken breast and broccoli craze that has been gripping Hollywood for the past decade.
I wouldn't say that, its a view that is valid but that we all prefer to overlook. Isn't the full, often contradictory picture more interesting than just the public image put forward...even if we love that image? If Dubblechin was an Ali hater, he could raise much worse things than any of those he listed. Boxing's a very mean game, it makes no sense that the man at the top of the heap would be a unwitting, uninvolved blushing virgin.
Maybe but I watched the fight closed circuit and remember the post fight tests coming up with a diuretic, not any other drugs.
There are lot of search results on Google. He took shortcuts in training by taking Thyrolar and Ditirex, both of which have amphetamine-like effects. The whole thing failed to help him do anything but drop weight. The motive to get an edge was present, regardless. https://radaronline.com/videos/muhammad
I will take your word on this. It definitely sounds possible because Ali looked fit but was just a shell of himself.
Pacheco goes into it in depth in Hausser's book on Ali too. Ali was probably lucky to come through that fight alive.
Bob Hazelton used Steroids as early as 1969-70 after his loss to Foreman he began his actually pretty well documented steroid abuse.
Ellis tried valiantly to keep his weight at middleweight early in his career when he was a stringbean. I think he finally just gave up and let nature take its course and became a better fighter for it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in my admittedly sheltered and limited experience, concerted use of steroids usually make a person ripped and heavily muscled. I never saw that with Ellis.
Ali using PEDs is nonsense. Other than an Ammonia capsule, the OP is trying to instigate that Ali was using anabolic steroids, growth hormone, etc.
