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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 12, 2010 1:26:47 GMT -5
Why else would he let a 30 million dollar fight die?
Floyd killed the fight cause he knows he would discover what Hatton felt like after getting in the ring with the Tasmanian Pacman.
Besides, Mayweather has more important fights to chase, like Paul Malignaggi, the feather fisted terror from Bensonhurst!
What a PUNK!
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 13, 2010 2:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 16, 2010 2:34:33 GMT -5
Floyd's best skill seems to be staying safe. And to think THIS is the guy they called the best in boxing? No balls, just a big mouth. Damn shameful.
And Pacman is no angel either.... he MUST be dirty if he was willing to lose 40 million just to avoid taking all the tests, random ones too. Hmmmm
This is what happens in rogue sports where there is no structure, no unified rules, regs or accountability to speak of, no ranking system, just a bribery system.
Boxing is really starting to SUCK.
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 17, 2010 12:52:59 GMT -5
In my opinion the media and anti drug hysteria have done to boxing what it has done to society as a whole. The media have homogenized it into political correctness making it an insipid carnival of pretty boys, in a game that was once reserved for tough boys. I am not opposed to performance enhancing drugs. In other sports, performance enhancing equipment such as glasses and other equipment are used. Why not performance enhancement equipment for the body as a whole? The prohibition on the use of these substances seem ridiculous and contradictory to me. If a person can use mechanical aids to increase his performance, why not chemical aids? Floyd's best skill seems to be staying safe. And to think THIS is the guy they called the best in boxing? No balls, just a big mouth. Damn shameful. And Pacman is no angel either.... he MUST be dirty if he was willing to lose 40 million just to avoid taking all the tests, random ones too. Hmmmm This is what happens in rogue sports where there is no structure, no unified rules, regs or accountability to speak of, no ranking system, just a bribery system. Boxing is really starting to SUCK.
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Post by werewolf on Jan 18, 2010 13:08:38 GMT -5
In my opinion the media and anti drug hysteria have done to boxing what it has done to society as a whole. The media have homogenized it into political correctness making it an insipid carnival of pretty boys, in a game that was once reserved for tough boys. I am not opposed to performance enhancing drugs. In other sports, performance enhancing equipment such as glasses and other equipment are used. Why not performance enhancement equipment for the body as a whole? The prohibition on the use of these substances seem ridiculous and contradictory to me. If a person can use mechanical aids to increase his performance, why not chemical aids? ... You make a good argument, and I don't know what to say about it - and then there is the grey area, like vitamins and whatnots that are perfectly legal. Some of these sports writers are acting as though Mark McGwire just confessed to raping children or something. And don't tell me boxers like Holyfield and Tyson never used steroids - and Holyfield disproves the assertion that steroids will shorten your career, doesn't he? On the other hand there's the grotesque abuse of steroids, as in Don McMahon's wrasslin' scene. ww
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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 20, 2010 22:53:47 GMT -5
I agree that we should be free to do what we want with and to our bodies but if you're on roids and your opponent gets killed....that is a problem. Mark Maguire is a hell of a nice guy but his stats are tainted since he was juicing. I doubt Babe Ruth was juicing, but like Willie Mays said in a post career interview, "I didn't take anything but if steroids were around then, I'd have taken em and so would anyone! We all wanted to be the best!"
Question becomes...is being on Performance Enhancing Drugs ...the "real" you? I think not.
Boxing is so fuckin corrupt that nothing would surprise me. If it was discovered that DLH and Froyd were two faggots in love, inspired by Roy Jones Jr and Derrick Gayner...I wouldn't be the least bit shocked.
Maybe they should ALLOW steroids and let all the roid fighters fight each other. Let the clean fighters stay within their ranks and at the end of the year, let the best clean fighter take on the roided fighter and see how it goes.
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Post by ninjamantis on Feb 5, 2010 19:18:58 GMT -5
...this is a damn good boxing topic...shame we have so few voices.
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Post by maddogblues on Feb 11, 2010 11:41:02 GMT -5
I feel rather strongly that performance enhancing aids should not be limited to mechanical aids. No one complains is a lighter more durable compound is made into a racing bicycle which give an advantage to one using it. No one thinks twice about a visually impaired player using glasses to see better. Why not a cry over the size and style of a catchers glove was adapted to use behind the plate?
A guy takes a chemical to do his job better. I recall in the early days of the space program when reentry procedures were partially pilot controlled that the pilots were instructed to take amphetamines to sharpen his response time.
Mickey Mantle used amphetamines for their performance enhancing properties and I have not heard of his record being challenged on that account. I have not even heard of the practice being condemned and it was widespread.
The whole anti performance enhancing dialogue is a red herring designed to keep you occupied using the drug boogie man as its purported authority IMO
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