Worse Thing To Do In Between Training Camps.. Smoking Tobacco OR Drinking Alcohol?

[Ryn0]

Originally Posted by #1Assassin

doesnt mean it isnt bad for you.

explains why mayweather and RJJ had the advantages in speed, reflexes and mental quickness amongst other things and were able to dominate. how hopkins is still world class at 47 while ppl like tyson, taylor and hatton were shot by 30.

fighters who dont use drugs will always have an advantage over those who do.

Circumstantial evidence, what about all those fighters than don't drink and smoke that don't have mental quickness, speed etc?

Hopkins is Hopkins because of his whole lifestyle not just that fact he doesn't drink or smoke, he by his own admission never balloons up to more than 10lbs over his fighting weight, he is always training etc. He's a gym rat, same with Floyd and RJJr.

Also Tyson, Taylor and Hatton have styles which meant they got hit alot (Tyson less so in his early career but he got hit more than Bhop, RJJ, and Floyd) which could have contributed to their downfall.

I'm not saying drinking and smoking isn't bad for you, but your reasoning is frankly poor. They are bad for you but there is no evidence to say that RJJ and Floyd are so good because they don't drink and smoke. I think the fact they don't points towards a whole lifestyle geared towards boxing and preservation/defense which is maybe the reason that did so well.

[revs1227]

drinking is the worst!
imagine how good hattonwould have been had he not been and alcoholic fat ass who gained so much weight between camps lol

[ThePhantom5]

Alcohol and its not even close.

Smoking effects your lungs primarily and Alcohol effects everything. Its hurts everything.

[The Gambler1981]

They are about equally bad if you do them equally, but most people who smoke do that more than most people that drink alcohol there are exceptions of course. Smoking cigars or other tobacco you don't inhale would be much less of an issue in terms of fight performance.

Smoking and inhaling effects the whole circulatory system~ not just lungs. You are breathing in poison air, that air gets transferred to the blood which means it effects everything.

Any fighter who really takes their career seriously would avoid either or at the very least practice in moderation.

[Da Problem]

smoking tobacco fo sho doe

not smokin the reefers tho, that doesn't relly hurt u but i think its illegal to have in ur system on drug tests