It seems very weird ( wink wink , we all know what it's about ) that everybody is fixated on Barry Bonds. What about Mcguire and Sosa ( he was much bigger then Bonds ) having asteriks next to their names in the record books. Why was Tyson never tested with all his anger issues and musclarity during his rise to the top. I hope him having white trainers and handlers( getting paid big )back then didn't play a role in people turning a blind eye ( wink wink ).
2006-09-10 08:56:56 · 10 answers · asked by CHULA5 1 in Sports ➔ Boxing
jpr sd - I don't think Don King has a monopoly and the sport of Boxing. Why don't the test for steriods in such a physically combative sport ? This is exactly why the nonsense about Bonds is just that......NONSENSE.
2006-09-10 09:10:01 · update #1
greendonkey 34- You sound very naive. We don't know what any of those old timers in baseball were doing to inhance their performance. Maybe it wasn't steriods but it could have been something else. As far as boxing is concerned , someone should bring up the issue. How fair is it to boxing greats like Joe Lewis and Mohammed Ali to be compared to a young title holding steriod abusing freak.
2006-09-10 09:14:39 · update #2
When you see all these atheletes come down with various cancers and kidney ailments ( Lance Armstrong, Alonzo Mouring etc. ) which are sometimes side effects of steroid usage. One can only wonder.
2006-09-10 09:17:18 · update #3
Hey Chula5
Because they don't test for steroids in professional boxing. They do in Olympic Boxing - but not in the Don King Ring!
James in San Diego
2006-09-10 09:03:02 · answer #1 · answered by jpr_sd 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mike Tyson Teenager
2016-11-01 01:24:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who in boxing has ever been accused of steroids?They don't make it an issue in Boxing.It is so big in baseball because it's not fair to the old timers who's records are being broken.The reason, is because people like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron were great without the use of steroids.They are the true greats no matter what the record books say , because they relied on true talent and not steroids.
2006-09-10 09:03:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you have tried to test him back then? Good point though, have you seen lately a picture of Mcquire his rookie year. He looked like me, barely 190 pounds. He was a beast when he retired. So was Bonds, but Mcquire was tiny when he came in.
Honeslty, why test in boxing. I could make that same arguement for all sports, but I don't have that kind of time. Boxing is about power, but if you get too strong and lose speed, your done. Besides, some people you can just tell are freaks of nature. Tyson was a physical specimen. I'm sure there were no before and after pictures at any age for Tyson, like Mcquire or Bonds
2006-09-10 09:18:47 · answer #4 · answered by Sean J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tyson was a prodigy, he wasn't the only one who was talented and young. Boxing has a history of producing such talented men, Sam Mc Vie, Wilfredo Benitez spring to mind.
Don't compare those sports with boxing. Boxing has always been the distance poor relation when it comes to sports in general.
Those dispersions are crap. Tyson may be the whipping boy for everything that is wrong with the sport but it doesn't mean that your ignorance should actually be taken serious. He was talented, end of story. Take it your bull **** somewhere else.
2006-09-10 15:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by Bru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boxing is a "blood sport" and if anyone gave a s$#t about the health of the athlete involved it wouldn't even be sanctioned in this country. Anyone seen what happened to Joe Frazier or Ali?
2006-09-10 10:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by Mike D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tyson was a phenom. And, just because we haven't heard if they tested him or not, doesn't mean they hadn't.
Remember, they caught Fernando Vargas with banned substances in his system after he'd lost to De La Hoya.
I think they'd even caught some boxers with cocaine in their systems before & after fights.
So, the boxing commision does plenty of testing, and boxers get caught. It just doesn't make the headlines as much because boxing is not as popular as some other sports.
p.s. In high school, I saw a friend of mine squeeze open an unopened can of beans when he got mad at something. His adrenaline flow was something else. And, no, he wasn't taking steroids.
2006-09-10 11:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing to do with race but for the same reason OJ Simpson isn't in jail and Monica Lewinski is worth zillions - he's American and as long as there is money to be made by unscrupulous types he can do what he likes.
2006-09-10 13:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by pomjon1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHULA 5 - Your question was making me think until it deterioated into an irrational chorus of racial whining and self - pity.
If they were trying to persecute black men in sport, someone would have asked this now idiotic question a long time ago.
Trying to get black athletes banned from sport makes no sense. If blacks disappeared from sport, sport as we know it would cease to exist. Then no one makes any money.
As for the issue on Tyson, he has always been a physical anomaly - that's why he was groomed for boxing.
I'm sorry, but he wasn't the victim of a paranoid Farrakhan fantasy - fed steroids by the white man. Hope reality doesn't ruin your day.
You know what the irony to all this? If Tyson had stayed with his original trainers - you know, the white guys - he'd probably be the legend he seemed destined to become.
Instead, he listened to men who's skin happened to be black, and who used that advantage to squeeze every dime out of him, allowing him to destroy himself in the process.
Then, when they saw there was nothing more to be gained from him, they disappeared into the arms of people like yourself, who live in a fantasy world where you are always the victim, and nothing's ever your fault.
2006-09-10 15:26:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
James Toney???? They DO tests in boxing. Before and after each fight.
2006-09-13 04:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋