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If you know anything about being an athlete or training you wouldn't make such dumb remarks. Losing even 10lbs would make a significant difference in one's energy, power, endurance, and overall strength. The biggest mistake for boxers who lose weight is that the lose weight to the targeted weight. In actuality, Roy should have went down to sub 170 and then weight trained to get to about 180 then lose the 5lbs prefight. By doing this the fighter will have some strength, not as much as he had at 200...but at least he won't feel as weak and drained. I went from 190 to about 173 in about 50 to 60 days. At 173 I was so weak and I even felt light headed after workouts. My diet was good as well as my sleeping habit. Its just the fact of losing so much muscle when you lose that much weight it takes time for the body to adjust.Comment
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thats 25lbs of muscle, thats a *****. A lhw walks around at 200, he works the weight off to get down but has to work harder to get strong again. You can run all day and eat lettuce to lose weight, wont make u stronger though.. Im not advocating any excuses, Tarver clearly cleand his clock. Im jus sayin..Comment
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Well , you just gave an example of me giving a fighter credit for winning a fight , but even then it was due to a shoulder injury , but the question is : was it because of the fight or not ? I watched this fight recently and I forgot this fact. The truth is since there is always a reason , many times the "excuses" are the reasons . But not every time.
Many times I do give the credit , it is simply then when I do not comment because there is nothing to argue about. I only comment when I sense injustice passing undetected .Comment
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Steroids or not Jones was a beauty to watch inside the ring and no steroid can teach you those.
"With the exception of Jones, I can’t recall any great champion who went from their superhuman peak to being ordinary from one fight to their next, and within a matter of months, and without con****uous injuries or illegal drug or alcohol problems. Even with those three caveats, I cannot think of any great fighter who has gone through such a rapid transformation.
In his first fight after the BALCO scandal broke in September 2003, which prompted the federal government to shut the company down, Jones received a hard earned and extremely close decision over Antonio Tarver. That’s the fight in which Joe Calzaghe made the comment that Jones looked human for a change.
Where was the speed and power he had showed just eight months earlier against Ruiz? Why couldn’t he break Tarver’s nose or ribs, as in the past? Sure, he had shed any where from eighteen to twenty-four pounds in eight months, and it was claimed this feat weakened him. On the other hand, I just lost four pounds in five days without exercise, and Jones had eight months to lose all of that extra weight he’d packed on for Ruiz. So was it the weight loss that weakened Jones or something else?
The former champ was blasted out in two rounds in a rematch with Tarver, and then he looked listless, slow and powerless in getting starched by Glen Johnson. In a rematch with Tarver, Jones ran for his life in lasting the distance. The power, speed and durability he had always exhibited were gone, disappeared, nearly instantaneously—as if by magic. In 2004, writing for blackathlete.com, Elisa Harrison strongly suggested the loss of superman’s powers might have been linked to BALCO, and she might very well have been correct."
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