Povetkin shows more power and is in much better shape than 5 years ago

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  1. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie

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    Well there's a long story behind the PEDs in sport, and there are some famous names that weren't caught but later exposed to use them (like Armstrong of Marion Jones) but the reality is that in today's sports you'll have serious disadvantages if you are 100% clean while others use something.
     
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  2. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    :yep

    I just assume everyone is on something, too. We never have anyway of knowing for sure, but there is a lot of corruption behind the scenes with this kind of stuff, and the substances are always 1 or 2 steps ahead of the testing protocol.

    :smoke
     
    Rumsfeld, May 22, 2015
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  3. Super Hans

    Super Hans The Super One™ banned

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    But I think there are an awful lot of guys who would much rather lose, than cheat to win. :thumbsup
     
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  4. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie

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    Yes.

    But I know some examples when the athlete doesn't even know he's using drugs and thinks his nutritionist gives him 'vitamins'. He fairly thinks that its vitamins not PEDs:yep
     
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  5. Jordan_Davies

    Jordan_Davies Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Im actually impressed

    Back in the days of Povetkin fighting guys like a washed up Rahman and IMO lost that fight with Marco Huck I didnt see anything other than another flat bloated Eastern european going what I guess is now the Deontay Wilder route

    Post Klitschko he seems to have gained a lot of confidence from that fight and seems to be training a lot harder,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdsPy0TPKZ4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGocpc4Yx88

    just looking at the change in physique hes a completely different fighter now

    Could he be on PEDs? yes but same can be said about any fighter

    Personally id like to think that all those years Atlas was saying "your not ready for Klitschko" and when it finally happened Povetkin somehow came out with more confidence given the circumstances of the fight
     
    Jordan_Davies, May 22, 2015
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  6. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Good assessment
     
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  7. PugilisticPower

    PugilisticPower The Blonde Batman Full Member

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    Povetkin was always a big puncher, and always in "chubby shape" - he seems to have been a little more defined recently but Eastern Europeans tend to thin down as they age, starting as chubby.
     
    PugilisticPower, May 22, 2015
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  8. a beast

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    Well he is fighting Mike Perez,Carlos Takam and Manuel Charr
     
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  9. Godhead

    Godhead Well-Known Member Full Member

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    That's what Eastern European steroids does for ya! :good
     
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  10. On The Money

    On The Money Dangerous Journeyman Full Member

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    A pedigree hw should peak at 35-38, the bums in earlier eras did coke, cake and got out of shape, that's why they were done earlier.
     
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