Steroid users in boxing

[Trooper Thorn]

Hello I have decided to register here after browsing through the great and informative posts on this website for the last few weeks.


My eyes were opened ,particuarly by a poster called Colonel Callan, about black steroid abuse in sprinting with the media covering up for them and claiming ibstead that it was "superior genetics".


I would like some of the experts here to comment on the durg cheating of blacks in boxing.


Roy Jones, a media hyper "super ahtlete", was caught taking drugs and got a slap on the wrist. Shane Mosely exhibited brilliant hand speed and reflexes early in his career but got caught up in the BALCO mess and has looked like crap ever since.


How much of a role do you think steroids play in the hand speed and power of the likes of Floyd Mayweather or Jeff Lacy?


Do you think Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and others benefited from the same PC types who cover up the African runner's steroid abuse?

 

[Alpha Male]

I remember watching a Tyson interview right before he fought Lennox Lewis. His face was covered with horrific acne. Since he never had such acne as a 19 year old teen (I just wathced all his old fights on Classic Boxing), it wouldn't shock me that he ventured into steroid use heavily.

 

[dkr77]

I read once where Don King stated that his boxing promotion did'nt test for steroids because it was too expensive. Can you imagine making a statement like that when you pay out millions of dollars for one championship fight! I believe the vast majority of fighters use some form of performance enhancing drugs.

 

[White_Savage]

One very simple way to get an idea is to just look at physiques of modern athletes.

Take a look at old-time body-builders from the pre-steroids era, like Sandow, Aston, Atlas. Guys whose entire focus of training was building large muscles. They pretty much reflect the limit of what you can expect to achieve without drugs.

Museum of old-time body-builders

Nowadays of course, all body-builders are taking massive amounts of steroids, but when you have other athletes, ESPECIALLY boxers building up muscle size LIKE that of body-builders, it's a fairly obvious tip-off.

Just as a point of interest,here is what Africans with only lifting and carrying (in this case, the massive tusks of elephants) and the good hard outdoor life to build them up look like. No steroids or even admixture with Nordics here. They are wiry and fit, and of course with very little sub-cutaneous body-fat, but not Strong-Man material.Edited by: White_Savage