Now Tarver tests positive!

[ross]

And, from what I hear, he looked like shit in that fight. What these dingbats don't get, and this is why modern fighters suck, is this: Boxing is a cerebral activity. It doesn't matter how big or how muscular you may be...if you are ring-stupid you'll get beat up.

He did look like shit, but in fairness Tarver is not really ring stupid, which his opponent Kayode certainly was. It doesn't say what he actually tested positive for, but with the way he fought it just seemed he lacked energy and couldn't pull the trigger unless the guy was begging him to. I would guess testosterone or EPO, something like that will be the culprit here. And if that was the best he can produce even with drugs, stick a fork in him.

Wont be epo then.....

Epo has nothing to do with energy. Just red blood cell count.

Yeah and what do red blood cells do?

Ill tell you... They carry oxygen around the body and what do we use oxygen as? Energy!

The more oxygen fighters on epo can get around their body, the harder they can work and for longer. Check Mosley against De La Hoya (at least, probably lots more of his fights) in the rematch.

Fuck sakes.... Basic stuff

Come on now, no ped user would take epo for the energy boost? Wtf. For energy u take caffeine ephedra, l tyrosine, modafinil stuff like that. Epo helps u have more stamina from the oxygen, that shit ain't gonna make u hype. Epo used for energy......lmao.

Right, you get a fighter sat on his stool after the 11th round and its a very even fight and it all rests on who wins the last round but both fighters are exhausted, you give them your magic caffine drink, it will make no difference what so ever but you give them an oxygen mask and allow the lungs to saturate all the muscle fibres in the body with pure oxygen and that fighter will come out like he did in the first. Oxygen is far more important than some ingested energy drink. They body can eat away at its own muscle tissue for energy which is what people cal their second wind.

You obviously havent ever trained hard on a hot boxing gym. After a few hard rounds, step out in to the cooler air where the amount of oxygen per cubic meter is condensed and therefore higher and you get an energy boost. Its like an engine, it will run better in cool air because the oxygen per cubic meter is greater than in hot air. Or a football. In hot weather it will seem more inflated because the air has expanded but in cool weather it seems under inflated but it still has the same amount of oxygen in which is why its better to breath cooler air when training or fighting.

Iv always thought fighters should be allowed to have oxygen between rounds, its hardly an ilegal substance and in some cases it should be criminal that they dont. You leave a dog in a car in the heat and people will mosn but those same people will pay to watch those fighters exhaust themselves for 45 minutes in an enclosed hot arena with thousands of other people using the same air.