What do you consider to be performance enhancing?

My opinion doesn't matter, it's the sports governing body that decides what to allow in their sport.

 

Doing exercise, eating healthy and getting a good night's sleep is performance enhancing. Having a great trainer who comes up with a watertight gameplan on the night is performance enhancing. The issue of course is with PEDs - performance enhancing drugs. Some of those are legal and are perfectly fine to take, others are illegal and require punishment if found in an active fighter's system by accredited drugs testing agencies. It's not that complicated really.

 

Why not research it instead of asking a message board?

The point is that a line has to be drawn somewhere, arbitrarily or otherwise. If you allow all performance enhancing drugs, it becomes impossible to level the playing field in any reasonable way and the sport becomes a biological arms race.

The sport has professional people that are paid and trained to draw that line for the fighters and the fans, and to give us as close to fair competition as is possible.

 

WADA does. Look up what their protocol is if you're so interested.

 

How the feck are we all meant to know what performance advantages you gain with each specific substance? If they are banned you should be banned for taking said substances, it really is that simple.

 

Professional boxing is the hurt business. At it's most fundamental level, it's about hurting your opponent.

Allowing boxers to take whatever PEDs they choose is going to get someone very badly hurt or killed.

It's already an issue.

Clean it up. Don't make it worse.

 

LOL

 

Obviously depends how big the cut is and how well your body takes it.

But it's still very simple, and you clearly understand this or wouldn't have done it repeatedly - if it didn't give significant advantages, fighters wouldn't put themselves through it.

My wording was slightly ambiguous, but when I said bigger cuts I was meaning bigger cuts that don't adversely affect performance... This takes either significant genetic luck, or serious medical oversight and assistance.

If significant medical expenses allow guys to cut really hard without negatives, then the bigger the cut the bigger the performance enhancement.

(I'd personally like to see stronger rules to prevent it, but that's not how it is now).

 

You clearly don't understand the difference between coffee and PEDs. That's funny to me.

...What are your thoughts on drunk driving?