Which boxer in history do you want to be?

I'm still hoping for vastly improved medical tech in the future, so none of them.

Purely from the standpoint of living a successful life, Schmeling, Foreman, and Tunney would be your poster boys, especially among the heavyweights. Followed by Holmes a bit below that.

Tyson ended up in a surprisingly OK place, but the journey to get there...wasn't great. Mayweather appears to be in good shape, but the night is young. Hagler apparently did pretty well for himself.

 

I think you nailed it considering the man lived to he 100 and had his money. So many guys end up broke and broken.

 

LOL!

I hear Toney’s marketing his own FAT-bit watch - it periodically tells you when to over-feed your face through out the day and sounds off a danger signal alert when you’re approaching anything near to levels of exercise that might cause (god forbid) weight loss. The watch then duly instructs you to take a load off, sit down, watch television, gorge your face again and doing absolutely nothing for at least several hours. The slogan for the watch is…. ….”For the body you CRAVE for and DESERVE…”

Who knows, it might take off and be in direct conceptual competition with Foreman’s lean, mean, fat blasting cookware range….

 

Toney retired because he could no longer make heavyweight.

 

Either Lennox Lewis or George Foreman....who wouldn't like to be an very successful, huge 6'3-6'5 giant with an even bigger bank account ?

 

The morbidly obese (MO) division is screaming out to be made. Too many careers cut short for lack of same.

 

I've always admired Dempsey.
Love how he came around and hit the jackpot just as the roaring 20 s were starting up.
The ultimate tough guy.

 

When is an IV drip necessary? I imagine drinking water directly is much better since you can guzzle litres within an hour with your mouth as opposed to the intravenous method.

 

Galento

 

Someone else might be able to answer better, but when you drink water it goes right through you — you **** it out.

An IV rehydrates your body with saline and since it doesn’t go through your stomach it doesn’t just go right through you.

A few years ago I had a serious stomach thing — maybe food poisoning, I don’t recall — and got completely dehydrated over the course of about a day and a half. Like couldn’t keep anything down, even a sip of water. My eyeballs were getting dry. I was so out of it I don’t even remember driving myself to the doctor (one of those doc-in-a-box places) and when the nurse started to take my vitals she walked out and dragged the doctor in like ‘you need to see him NOW.’

Doc looked at me like 30 seconds and said ‘you’re coming with me.’ Put me in an exam room and hooked up two IVs of saline and left me in the room with the light off, checking on me every couple minutes. So like 30 minutes to an hour later I was full of fluids and then they started to figure out what I needed for my stomach. Told me they were close to calling an ambulance for dehydration.

So that’s my experience. I just know when we got into the day-before weigh-in era and guys cutting massive amounts of weight, they started using IVs for dehydration (which seems to have been phased out). I think it happens quicker, you have more capacity (you can only drink so much before your belly is full) and the body absorbs it rather than the liquid going in one end and out the other.

(Plus you don’t want a guy going into the ring with a full bladder. You keep chugging and chugging water and you’re going to need to keep running to the urinal.)

 

LMMFAO. Nice!

 

So far, Foreman. Doing great financially and healthy still (as far as I know) at 73.

Lewis probably as far as the next generation. Set financially and seems to be in good physical condition.

 

Had chronic severe back trouble from mid 30s onwards, courtesy of Louis left hook to the back, Max was turning away from the onslaught at that moment , the force of Joes blows chipped or fractured vertebrate in Max spine, wow !!!! stay safe.

 

He also was punished by hitler for losing the Louis rematch and was forced into the military.

 

Nicolino Locche
Canelo Alvarez