How Did Boxers Move Up In Weight In "The Old Days"?

[McNulty]

--- Popkins a cheat anyway there was a way to cheat.

Part of the cleaning up drugs bandwagon Goldenboy jumped on, he never did Olympic style drug testing and refused to answer charges of using HGH.

Coddled King and GB, he was the biggest fake of his era.

He showed ZERO signs of HGH use. Do you even know anybody IRL that uses or used Growth? I do.

The reason Hopkins did so well was he trained like Floyd did and didn't drink or do drugs. Add to that this generation isn't as good as his was.

Bums like Pascal and Cloud would have never survived the 80's Pro's or Ams. The Ams in the 80's was brutal with talent and grueling schedules.

[QueensburyRules]

He showed ZERO signs of HGH use. Do you even know anybody IRL that uses or used Growth? I do.

--- What I know is Goldenboy and Popkins claimed to be cleaning up boxing without him answering the charges against him.

A major league stain on his jockstrap. Popkins is dishonest in the ring as out of it.

[McNulty]

--- What I know is Goldenboy and Popkins claimed to be cleaning up boxing without him answering the charges against him.

A major league stain on his jockstrap. Popkins is dishonest in the ring as out of it.

What charges? What does that even mean?

[QueensburyRules]

--- what, you have to be bottle fed?

Pascal accused him of being on hgh and wanted to test him in the rematch.

Do I have to tell you who pascal is also?

[OctoberRed]

--- what, you have to be bottle fed?

Pascal accused him of being on hgh and wanted to test him in the rematch.

Do I have to tell you who pascal is also?

The same Pascal who half of Canada believes is on steroids. Musclebound Pascal?

[QueensburyRules]

--- let's see, half the Canadians divided by half wits = Quarterwit boxing fans...only on this thread...errr, perhaps more prolific.

Point being Popkorns being with GB accusing Manny dodging the accusation and never taking Olympic style testing...only in boxing!!!

[GelfSara]

Lifting huge barbells won't improve ones ability to take a punch, won't improve ones ability to FIGHT, won't improve ones fighting skill. Having bigger muscles is not coorilated in any way with winning fights.

Do you believe, therefore, that we should eliminate weight classes in boxing?

[HOUDINI563]

Lifting huge weights and weight classes are two very different things. Weight CLASSES are important certainly especially at lower weight classes.

[QueensburyRules]

--- Having bigger muscles and bone structure heavily correlates with the increasing scale of boxing weight classes established to give the junior papercut weights like you a fair chance.

What, you have to be Nurse fed yer pablum too?

Geez, what happened to the boxing studs that used to populate this forum?

Henry Hascup, where are you?

Well I hope as a gold mine of boxing knowledge...

[HOUDINI563]

Big muscles in of themselves have no purpose in terms of boxing ability. Thus lifting huge barbells to produce huge biceps or shoulders in of itself has no bearing on the ability to FIGHT.