Comments Thread For: PEDs in Boxing: No Punishment, No Crime?

[JLC]

Interesting that someone was attracted to boxing that way. I always thought that the unpleasant physiques and horrendous conditioning of the heavyweights in the mid to late 2000s is what killed heavyweight boxing for more than a decade. I thought they were unappealing, unskilled and unconditioned. The fact that this ridiculously out of shape Toney had any type of success in that era is a testament to bad things actually were and to how good he once was.

I had heard of Toney before. Never seen him fight or maybe never had seen him at all but I knew the name. I was in my early twenties and I had subscribed to premium cable channels because I wanted to watch the tv show “barber shop” based on the ice cube movies, but starring Omar Gooding instead of Cube.

Once I had the channels, I was flipping through channels one day and came across Toney v Peter. Maybe it was sloppy, maybe it wasn’t. I don’t know because that was the first time I watched boxing on tv. I do remember thinking Toney had great moves on the inside and remember him slipping and countering. I was in front of my TV moving and slipping and shadow boxing too. For whatever reason I thought Toney won but he ended up losing. After that I started looking around the internet to find a good boxing site that would tell me when it actually came on TV and ran across the rings website that had a schedule. The rest is history.

I’ve never been a sports fan. Don’t watch hoops, football, soccer, baseball. Nothing. But that ***** captivated me somehow. I went a few years even watching boxing on the Spanish channels. However many years later, I’m 38 and have travelled out of state to a couple fights, made it to quite a few here in Houston, and got a lot of my football and basketball fan friends locked in to the sport.

So James is excused. When he was old and washed up he made me a fan, and I’ve converted at least 6 more people in to boxing fans directly. Attending fights and buying PPVs. So that’s gotta count for something ! he made 7 fans ! Let him in the hall !!

[CaptainWalrus]

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[KillaMane26]

Its almost a joke at this point.... Why should future cheaters stop when the worst you will get is a fine and a tap on the wrist?

[champion4ever]

The fact is, PEDs has been around for years. It's just that we didn't know how widespread or prevalent it was until recently; Especially in the sport of boxing since most governing bodies never tested for them. Athletes earn their living with their bodies and many are willing to sacrifice their own health in order to get that extra edge through cheating and doping.

[champion4ever]

I believe Canelo Alvarez is still on that shit. He never quit. However the governing and sanctioning bodies are just looking the other way because they are all corrupt. They know he is notorious doper and juicer but they just refuse to do anything about it. Tainted beef my ass and that WBC's Clean Boxing Program is a bunch of bullshit!