Recently discovered this short film of joe louis in an exhibition against Godoy... I'm amazed how fit (Godoy)this guy was in a pre-steroid era just look at those guns This content is protected
This is fake, no one was ever in shape before the modern era, nothing from the past was any good. Never happened.
Really ! these guys looked in shape from the photos/pictures I have seen: Tom Sharkey Battling Siki George Lavgine B/ Joe Walcott George Godfrey Bob Armstrong Kid Norfolk wouldn't you say ? keep well.
Thanks man. Great vision. Godoy is in great shape. What about the big fella in the middle? The ref., none other than Luis Angel Firpo, The Wild Bull of the Pampas.
Hard labor kept many fit, & not the huge excess of often artificial food & sugar. Although well developed muscles does not mean fit-many lifters & steroid monsters are in poor cardio condition-& with the PEs, ready for various major organ problems, heart failure, & an early grave. There is a dessicated old man in my neighborhood, Midtown Manhattan. He is an honorary lifetime member where I used to go, & claims to be the oldest continuously operating gym in the nation, Mid-CIty. All the big lifters went there when they came to town. He knew these huge guys who used to lift there, likely starting from the 1960's & up. All those 22" biceps monsters: passed on, normally years ago-gone before their time. You can guess why.
They should play that music during every heavyweight fight. Makes it seem like the fighters are moving very fast.
Louis looks bigger and more menacing when viewed with this angle and lighting. (Also, he might have been a few pounds above his beat weight if he was fighting exhibitions.)
There is a documentary called Ronnie Coleman: The King on Netflix. He can't even stand up himself. His vertebrae are all crushed from the heavy weights he lifted.
Yes, I saw some of that. It was not the heavy weight primarily, it was that with steroids & HGH your muscles get stronger than your joints, bones & tendons can support-the muscle pulls on the support structure which cannot be artificially enhanced to bear up under such the load of an unnatural amount of muscle & strength.
