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Why do athletes testing positive for PED's seem so much more common in boxing than it does in any other organized sport?

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    I think with boxing being a dangerous sport in that both athletes are attempting to incapacitate one another, the expectations is that the testing would be stronger or more often. So there are more eyes on the sport than let's say someone throwing/kicking a ball at a net/goal. Though I think athletes in all other sports wouldn't mind some kind of advantage, regardless of what it is. Look at Armstrong. Just to keep cycling for longer/harder, it was worth taking for those gains.

    I follow arm wrestling and there is no doubt 99% of the top 10 of any weight class are all on some kind of juice. Absolute monsters. There is zero testing as far as I'm aware and it becomes a point of, just let them all go and see who can out juice who. At the end of the day, they're just having an arm wrestling match. The most they can damage is breaking a person's arm if it's in the arm break position, otherwise it's almost a level playing field in terms of everyone on something.

    That said, in boxing you can have god given gifts that other fighters do not have. You can take both fighters and put them on the juice. The guy with the god given ability will be enhanced to the point of looking extraordinary while the other dude will just be better, but still suck overall.

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