I notice there's been a fair amount of talk here about his 'suspect' physique, so...
Do you think Anthony Joshua is a clean athlete?
Some idiots just won't believe he's on PEDs because that would mean that there's a fighters juicing and getting away with it. The naives ones believe that the cheaters get caught. Can you imagine how it would feel to them to realice they favourite fighter is on PED? specially that one who claimed he was trying to clean up the sport and ended up more muscular at 38 than at 28.
Yea i wont be convinced hes clean until i see him pass some tests. Either he's cycling or hes a freak of nature.
That HGH gut doesn't lie.
I think he will have a very short prime, IMO he's probably pushing his body to the max, probably won't be long until his joints and ligaments start falling part from the wear and tear.
honestly it's the most obvious case i've seen. he has HGH gut these days
One thing I got from the physiques at the weigh in were...
Whyte is definitely OFF the Peds.
AJ is still stacking like a boss.
To clarify, i'm an AJ fan. I think he'll go on to win a world title. It's just every AJ thread, it seems, is littered with accusations...
Edit: poll added.
To me he looks too lean to be natural. But his physique isn't impossible with the right routine and diet. It's just fairly unlikely for a boxer.
Yeah, his upper body and arms are attainable naturally but his abs are the only thing that make me question him. being that chiseled at 245 is pretty hard to do.
thats what he got caught for, but he was selling coke and peds as well at the gym...
It's true, I saw him dumping a gram of coke into his pre-workout.
After his workout he relaxed with an IV in one arm and fat blunt in the other.
Dude is worse than Rick freaking James!
Guys he is black, and he is big, no homo. It's easier for them to get ripped in a short time with less work, because of genes. The same work you put in to get decent looking, he puts the same amount of work in and gets more ripped than you. Superior genes are a fact, it's not sci fi. It's centuries of his ancestors history that lead him to have the genes he has, that enables him to look like he does. The guy went through the amateurs and pros looking like that without getting caught, ever, right?(correct me if i'm wrong). Okay, now stop for a second and think, maybe he just looks like that because of genes.
If he happens to look like that with PED's and never got caught, then he has the absolute best PED regime in history along with Armstrong.
His physique has always looked like that and nobody accused him before. So maybe they accuse him now cos nobody can take one punch from himwithout visiting the canvas.
I mean that big Cornish dude he last beat he looked big and strong, yet couldn't take one punch from Josh?
You have penchant for spreading bullshit don't you.
He was done for selling a bit of weed and nothing else.
thats what he got caught for, but he was selling coke and peds as well at the gym...
Jousha has put on about 25 pounds of lean muscle within 2 years...
This guy comes from a bodybuilding background, and use to sell drugs including roids, so he's no stranger to cycling.
Anyone knows putting on that much muscle naturally is impossible, and especially when someone has a long history of training, gains slow down over time
You have penchant for spreading bullshit don't you.
He was done for selling a bit of weed and nothing else.
I wish people would stop saying Joshua has a 'GH gut'. GH gut's what professional bodybuilders get in their 40s after a lifetime of insulin and HGH abuse. It's incredibly noticeable. Josha just has very well developed abs.
I'm not saying he's a clean athlete, but his gut isn't one of the telltale signs by a long shot. Try his freakishly ripped physique and insane levels of lean muscle mass for starters.
Where have you got 25lb's from?
He was 232.5lbs in October 2013 Vs Paul Butlin
He weighed 245lbs today Vs Whyte.
Changing 12.5lbs over 2 years after becoming pro is hardly impossible.
Jousha has put on about 25 pounds of lean muscle within 2 years...
This guy comes from a bodybuilding background, and use to sell drugs including roids, so he's no stranger to cycling.
Anyone knows putting on that much muscle naturally is impossible, and especially when someone has a long history of training, gains slow down over time
He could be a genetic freak and he could work really hard at his physique.
I wouldn't put it past him though because he has big time backing and the rewards if he makes it are enormous.
I think he is too body builder like though, that just never seems to work out very well for a fighter. He is certainly still lean, but I think he would be better off with less muscle mass. If I see him fight at a super high pace for 12 whole rounds, with that kind of physique I would say that is unnatural but I haven't seen his gas tank to judge that.
AJ does have that roid gut.
I usually give athletes the benefit of the doubt, but it's hard to do that looking at Joshua.
Olympic testing is meaningless, look at what the Russian federation got away with for years.
Even now with the more recent changes like the introduction of the Athlete Biological Passport testing is more of a publicity sham than anything. Only around 1-2% of athletes fail drugs tests whereas in anonymous athlete surveys as many as 49% admit to juicing.
Unlike when the Russians and Americans were industrial dosing to outdo each other on tracks and fields athletes now microdose. They get most of the benefits coupled with a seriously reduced chance of detection. Plus if we look at something like testosterone, its now taken in a plant based form as a gel or patch so it bypass' the liver and intestinal tract leaving a much smaller footprint for testers to pick up on.
Those testing are implicated in this as well. The main test that is initially done for detecting abnormal amounts of testosterone is a T/E test. With microdosing the compounds are out of the system so fast that the detection period for the above test is ineffective (my memory fails me but it might be as little as four hours which is why Floyd making testers that turned up at his home wait around for about that time before taking a piss was highly suspicious). In the unlikely event that this test throws up any suspision is the more thorough CIR test done.
There a loads of ways around the testers. Microdosing with EPO whilst training at attitude makes throws up difficult to interpret results. The growth hormone IGF1 isn't dectable at all by the tests that the likes of Wada use. It can be taken on the day of competition.
Microdosing is perfect for enabling athletes to recover from grueling workouts quicker without their drug use being detected. It means that they can fit in extra training sessions compared to those who don't juice. Over the coarse of a training camp that makes all the difference.
ANTHONY JOSHUA - IM MUSCULAR BECAUSE OF GENETICS!!!
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Man no one likes seeing great athletes that are coloured if this guy was white he would be the next big thing. This is getting pathetic
If he was white he'd be the centre of a media witch hunt and have 150,000+ people calling for his removal from BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
You f*cking idiot.