Comments Thread For: Klitschko Suffers Bicep Injury, Pulev Bout Postponed

[soul_survivor]

Pulevs beating can wait

[Lou Cipher]

Cherry picking? Who is he 'ducking', then?

The only way I can really answer this in present times is with another question. Is he fighting the best available ? As for the last ten years, come on dude.

[joesaiditstrue]

Do some research on which boxers have had ****ing bicep injuries (by the way this is a rare sports injury) and the correlation to PED abuse

http://www.healio.com/orthopedics/ha...ateral-rupture

Biceps tendon avulsion or rupture is rare.

Anabolic steroids and androgen substitution have been implicated in the etiology of distal biceps tendon degeneration and rupture as well.16-18 Clinically, distal biceps tendon ruptures have been attributed to steroid use,19,20 but the role of anabolic steroids in biceps tendon ruptures remains unclear.

Didn't berto have a bicep rupture?

[Someone88]

Errr well Wladimir should recover well, the fight will happen later.

[E. O. Wilson]

I like Wlad and I assume he's on PEDs just like every other top boxer. I can't name one who doesn't show signs of being on PEDs. You guys really think Hopkins just stopped aging because he doesn't drink soda?

I remember on an MMA forum years and years ago everyone cussed me out and called for my banning because I said it was obvious Alistair Overeem was on PEDs. People were like nah it's not that hard to put on 100 pounds of shredded muscle midway into adulthood after looking like Steve Urkel 2 months earlier.

Guys the tests are extremely easy to beat and even kids on highschool football teams take a ton of banned substances nowadays. It doesn't even warrant discussion.

Time to just accept it, maybe focus on only testing for the nasty ones that could endanger the fighter's health rather than hopelessly racing against the entire pharmaceutical industry.

[Foreign Soil]

I like Wlad and I assume he's on PEDs just like every other top boxer. I can't name one who doesn't show signs of being on PEDs. You guys really think Hopkins just stopped aging because he doesn't drink soda?

I remember on an MMA forum years and years ago everyone cussed me out and called for my banning because I said it was obvious Alistair Overeem was on PEDs. People were like nah it's not that hard to put on 100 pounds of shredded muscle midway into adulthood after looking like Steve Urkel 2 months earlier.

Guys the tests are extremely easy to beat and even kids on highschool football teams take a ton of banned substances nowadays. It doesn't even warrant discussion.

Time to just accept it, maybe focus on only testing for the nasty ones that could endanger the fighter's health rather than hopelessly racing against the entire pharmaceutical industry.

Lol.. that's around the time I left sherdog for good... about 90% of the posters there simply believed that he drained so much at LHW that the 80lbs of muscle gained was simply due to eating regular and lifting weights...

[ShoulderRoll]

Do some research on which boxers have had ****ing bicep injuries (by the way this is a rare sports injury) and the correlation to PED abuse

http://www.healio.com/orthopedics/ha...ateral-rupture





Didn't berto have a bicep rupture?

Good post.

[New England]

meh. not a huge loss. pulev wasn't going to do jack sh#t anyway.


this is not only the worst era in HW boxing, it is the most boring. most of the championship fights f#cking suck.


and no, stivern is not a champion. he holds a special colored belt, and they give them away like candy.

[Dr.Eisenfaust]

meh. not a huge loss. pulev wasn't going to do jack sh#t anyway.


this is not only the worst era in HW boxing, it is the most boring. most of the championship fights f#cking suck.


and no, stivern is not a champion. he holds a special colored belt, and they give them away like candy.

Calm your mouth down. We all understood that you don't like this HW division, you don't need to repeat it 100 times...

[Banderivets]

Although I would love for Wlad to fight in the US, and I do think that the US is still the place for boxing, and I would love all fighters to fight in the states, but boxing MECCA it no longer is.

I'm sorry that's the reality. The sport is simply not that popular in the states. Do big fights happen in US? Yes, are all big fights in US? No.

If it wasn't for Mexican fighters fighting in US, which just makes sense for Mexicans. The Mexicans with money are in US, Mexican diaspora will go to support their fighters in any city in US, it just makes sense for Mexican fighters to build their careers in US.

Same with Ricans. Its North America, huge latino communities in US that loves boxing and will support any activity by their country men state side.

So take away the Latinos and what happens to US boxing? Exactly. What mecca? Fighters fight there because it makes sense for Mexicans and Ricans to fight there, the market is prime for them in US not in PR or Mexico.

Do you for one second think Canelo or JMM would be fighting in US if he could make the same or more money in Mexico? Not a chance. Maybe the odd fight for popularity sake.

Same with European fighters. Wlad made 20mil in Russia. Makes millions every fight in Germany...why come to US if he has a market in Europe.

Same with Klitschko's or other European fighters. Why do Klitschko not fight in Ukraine? Because they can make a lot more money fighting in Germany where there is a big eastern european community and the Germans love them because they chose to fight there in their youth.

The soccer argument can't be used here.

If you want to be an elite soccer player you must play in Europe.
If you want to be an elite basketball player you must play in US.

Why? Because that's where the elite LEAGUES are hosted.

Boxing is not a league.


I like the convenience of having a single country, in this case US with its size money and multiethnic composition as the place to be for boxing. But that no longer is the case.

Boxing is huge in other countries. People talk boxing in other countries like they talk about the NBA in North America. Huge stadium filling fights are not happening in US they are happening in Germany, UK, Russia and recently Argentina.