:smoke strange how even in VEGAS they stopped all betting on fights for a short time following this one but people here claim it was on the up and up . the fight was shady . Clearly shady .atsch
Considering the punishment Brewster took and being on the edge of defeat himself,I'm leaning to it not being a conspiracy. Wlad I think was ill and unable to train properly.He ****ed up by taking the fight and post-fight he wanted to obscure this poor decision, by bringing up the drugging issue. Drugging was also brought up by Foreman after his fight with Ali.In that case I don't think George put enough roadwork in the weeks before the fight,when it was postponed after he cut his eye in sparring.
atsch Bull**** . This was clearly shady . And everything surrounding the fight clearly pointed that way .
Wlad wasn't drugged until some solid proof can be found to contradict this. Such proof was never found. Wlad just gassed, he threw the kitchen sink at Brewster but Brewster just wouldn't go away... maybe Wlad wasn't a 100% coming into the ring, but many boxers aren't a 100% come fight night and may lose therefore - doesn't mean they're drugged.
Apparently this man was seen back stage, tampering with Wlads water bottle. He left the area quickly, though authorities were able to glean from his badge that his name was 'Evan'. This content is protected
It's a strong possibility. For a big man,Wlad was moving round a lot and throwing a hell of a lot of punches the first few rounds .It looked like he wanted to get Brewster out of there as quickly as possible. Wlad's calmer and more methodical these days and doesn't expend so much energy in the ring . It's not as if he hadn't been knocked out before either.
I don't believe he was drugged since his handlers are usually the drugors. Most likely it was a bad batch of Roids injected prior to the fight.
He mustn't have been able to get his peds supply from his usual source - American athletes: I guess Pryor, Toney, Jones Jr, Mosley, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds et al had used all their **** up.
Boxing is the only Sport/Profession where "being drugged" is an excuse. Why? Because it's a lame cop out. What if every profession could use it to excuse a bad performance? Boss: You really ****ed up on this report, Roberts. Roberts: Sir...you have to understand. I believe I may have been drugged when I was working on it. Boss: Ahh. That cast doubts upon the legitimacy of the shittiness of the report you turned in. The only "Drug" Wlad was on was estrogen. And not synthetic estrogen. Natural estrogen. Because he is a vagina. With no heart. Or chin.
:roll: He actually started trying to get BREWSTER out of there as quicky as possible because he felt he had something wrong with him . Ironically its that same responce to feeling weird which people claim now caused it . People on this board have the cause and effect confused . Kind of like claiming VLAD isn:t great because he doesn:t take chances ! He simply doesnt have to . Which actually what makes him a great fighter !
:nut Of cource everything strange surrounding this fight where coinsidences . A perfect storm of coinsidences all looking like shady actions !:nut
no what we saw was the death of wlad the offensive master. Steward clearly wanted to give wlad a try using his natural style, it failed miserably as yet again he put everything into taking his opponent out. from this point on steward honed wlad into a safety first specialist.