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Lemme ask ya somethin brothers!!!
With what we have seen in the past few years regarding what seems to occur when professional athletes are on some type of juice...specifically, "Barry Bonds Syndrome" as I will call it, are not even the most ardent of Pacquiao supporters even the least bit concerned about the fact that Manny's head has undergone a similar transformation like Bonds, McGwire, Brutus Beefcake, Sammy Sosa, Shane Mosley, and others that I am sure I am leaving out have gone through? I know you cannot judge someone guilty simply by saying "Look at his f'n HEAD!", but after years of seeing this effect I think it certainly raises my su****ions and I would think that even the biggest Pac fans in the world would at least be a little bit uncomfortable with the similarities between Manny's head growth and that of previous juicers. I know that gaining weight will almost always cause your face to look different and larger...but it doesn't make your skull get bigger and change shape. I started getting a little su****ious myself after the DLH fight, and specifically have mentioned to other people a few times in a joking manner over the past year or so that he sure did have some Bondsian head expansion going on.
I just don't see how people could look at pics of Manny's head over the past 1 1/2 yrs and compare it to Marquez 2 and write the changes off as weight gain or aging. Im basically the same age as Manny (30) and you know what? I look pretty much the same today as I did 1 1/2 yrs ago...and so does pretty much everyone I know.
I think we'll all get a definitive answer in the future if Pac ever is subjected to random blood testing (I think all boxers should be, no legitimate reason why they shouldn't) or just the fact that he is now under such a high level of scrutiny may force him to get off the stuff if he has been taking them. It'll be pretty easy to tell if he gets off them and his next fight he looks like what alot of people expected when he moved up, which is a blown up little guy, ala Marquez v Mayweather.
And one more question: If they imposed stricter drug testing for future fights and, say, Pac v Mayweather occurred and Manny looked real blown up and nothing like his past few fights and got beat...but passed all the drug tests along the way...what would you then think of his past few wins? Would you pretty much chalk it up to juice or give him the benefit of the doubt, still?
With what we have seen in the past few years regarding what seems to occur when professional athletes are on some type of juice...specifically, "Barry Bonds Syndrome" as I will call it, are not even the most ardent of Pacquiao supporters even the least bit concerned about the fact that Manny's head has undergone a similar transformation like Bonds, McGwire, Brutus Beefcake, Sammy Sosa, Shane Mosley, and others that I am sure I am leaving out have gone through? I know you cannot judge someone guilty simply by saying "Look at his f'n HEAD!", but after years of seeing this effect I think it certainly raises my su****ions and I would think that even the biggest Pac fans in the world would at least be a little bit uncomfortable with the similarities between Manny's head growth and that of previous juicers. I know that gaining weight will almost always cause your face to look different and larger...but it doesn't make your skull get bigger and change shape. I started getting a little su****ious myself after the DLH fight, and specifically have mentioned to other people a few times in a joking manner over the past year or so that he sure did have some Bondsian head expansion going on.
I just don't see how people could look at pics of Manny's head over the past 1 1/2 yrs and compare it to Marquez 2 and write the changes off as weight gain or aging. Im basically the same age as Manny (30) and you know what? I look pretty much the same today as I did 1 1/2 yrs ago...and so does pretty much everyone I know.
I think we'll all get a definitive answer in the future if Pac ever is subjected to random blood testing (I think all boxers should be, no legitimate reason why they shouldn't) or just the fact that he is now under such a high level of scrutiny may force him to get off the stuff if he has been taking them. It'll be pretty easy to tell if he gets off them and his next fight he looks like what alot of people expected when he moved up, which is a blown up little guy, ala Marquez v Mayweather.
And one more question: If they imposed stricter drug testing for future fights and, say, Pac v Mayweather occurred and Manny looked real blown up and nothing like his past few fights and got beat...but passed all the drug tests along the way...what would you then think of his past few wins? Would you pretty much chalk it up to juice or give him the benefit of the doubt, still?