Vitali Klitschko vs Sonny Liston

Athletes in America have had access to steroids of various kinds since the 1960's. I'm not real sure about other countries though. Today, the most popular thing is human growth hormone. Evander Holyfield was reported to be receiving HGH, under the name Evan Holy or something like that.

 

Vitali Klitschko has only tested positive for non-performance enhancing steroids which were used for healing purposes, and he told the board about them before even testing for them. Weather or not he used roids for performance enhancing is not yet proven. In anycase, he does not look like a freak to me, but rather a large muscle bound guy who comes from a family who has the same resemblance.

 

I wrestled throughout highschool, and wrestled division three in college. I have also been a certified personal trainer who worked in a health club for several years. In addition, I have studied various disciplines of martial arts.

Where are you taking this in terms of Vitali's career, and how he'd do against Liston, or the whole steroid issue?

 

I wrestled in the 150 Lb weight class, 12-14 years ago, for Elmhurst college in Chicago. We were a small private catholic school, and mainly competed with other division three schools. Nothing special really, and I was an average wrestler by my own standards.

Never really had one on one experience with roid users, or at least not knowingly. I worked at a health club in deerfield Illinois from 1999-2005. I had the opportunity to meat and know by name many of the Chicago Bears and a few of the Bulls. They were naturally big men, and many of them used our therapy department to rehab injuries. Some of them may have been using substances but it was difficlult to tell. I have seen many young athletes gain a lot of muscle mass in a very short period of time though.

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I would certainly like to think that I could, but the reality is, I failed when faced with a similar situation. A wrestler managed to get me into a hold which resulted in my rotator cuff getting torn, and I was in so much pain that I got pinned and counted out. It was later determined that I had a bad injury and I sat out the rest of my senior year. A rotator cuff is not a minor injury. It is very deabilitating. Vitali Klitschko was in the 9th round of a championship fight with at least 3 rounds to go, and I'm still not sure when exactly the injury occurred. It could have been 3 rounds earlier for all I know, though I'm sure there is probably literature on it somewhere.