Does Anyone Really Believe that Doping/PEDs..

[Cinci Champ]

the one thing u got to remember is doing ped and getting away with it is expensive but ya at thye top levels of course its just like any other sport ped is a problem no doubt but i dont know if its any worse then any other sport

[DeadLikeMe]

Right after Victor Conte came clean he was doing all these interviews and ESPN (or some media outlet) asked him what sports were the dirtiest. He listed cycling, boxing and weightlifting immediately. This was over a decade ago already. Hell yeah they're dirty, I'd estimate >90% of the top guys in the sport are doping.

[have_not]

As I understand there s better testing in europe.
Most of the fighters that get caught cheating are americans

[davidandrei]

maybe im just cynical but I would not be surprised if anyone tests positive for peds. With technology as it is today and basic human nature and ingenuity, the possibilities are endless. With that said, still believe in innocent until proven guilty but it is also a part of the boxer/athlete's job to make me believe he is not doping. If someone is doping, he better make sure he never gets caught or even does anything su****ious.

[Scipio2009]

Boxing has consistently delivered the same outcomes for too long to believe that doping is rampant.

Fighter turns pro late teens/early 20's, has a ten year run where the body peaks, before the decline sets in over the next 5 years, and the career ends. Depending on how a fighter treats their body (avoiding alcohol/drugs, avoiding putting the body through yo-yo dieting, how often you fight, the amount of punishment you take in a fight, etc), they can expand/narrow that window, but the course of a career is still pretty constant.

The questions arise when a fighter emerges and skews drastically beyond that general course of a boxing career. Expanded testing keeps people honest, catching the folks who don't stick out like a sore thumb.

[Motofan]

Far too much money to be made in such a short window for these guys not to be doing it IMO. I'd love to believe the sport is clean, but it doesn't exactly have a history of clean fighters, even superstars have been caught. My opinion is most are on something. People can beat the tests and they know it.