Scrap? Do boxers get breathalysed before a fight?

[Fenster]

A few years back Fernie Morales from El Paso fought Orlando Canizalez and was stopped in the 12th. An hour and a half later he collapsed in the parking lot with a BAC of .2-plus, and neurological damage that ended his career.
I've always thought Larry Merchant should be tested.

What does that figure mean? Equate it to an amount of drink.. like how many pints of beer, spirits or glasses of wine?

Is it too large an amount to have consumed after the fight?

Maybe this question ain't so stupid after all....

[greynotsoold]

I don't know how many drinks that would be, but the legal limit for being drunk behind the wheel is .08. At the time there was speculation that that was an awful lot to drink in such a short time after the fight. Personally, I don't think so, when you consider that he probably hadn't eaten anything since at least 4 hours before the fight, weighed 118 lbs, and was probably pretty dehydrated after 12 rounds...
As an aside, Morales recovered pretty well. A friend of mine, that I spoke to the other day, sees him in the gym almost daily, training fighters there in El Paso.

[Scrap]

An old Pal of mine, in 61 who liked a Drink. Was on a Bill in St Helens, and was in with the local Heavyweight Hero. Ref brings them into the centre of the Ring for instructions. He turns to my Mate and smells Booze, says to Him you been Drinking. Yes and Im Pissed, He got stopped in Two.

[Andre]

Coke would have been the best thing ever to fight on. Some soccer stars wouldnt have shone as bright in the 70s and 80s if it wasnt for it. I bet some fighters from those coke areas would have been into it too when there were no tests.Back even earlier must have been an open house.


Recon this would have happened once or twice...

In the red corner we have from London Derry Six pints Mcguwiggen!!! and introducing in the blue corner from Argentina The gram man, Marconi Maradonna!!!!

$$ on the coke to win it any day.

[Gray Lion]

In my day it was never done, and the fights I have attended either in the dressing room or before dressing out, I have never witnessed a breatherlizer test....never even gave it a thought as to if they did it or not. Any fighter who would consume alcohol to the point of intoxication is either a bum fighter or nuts.
For the sake of argument, who would be qualified to give such a test, and if the fighter was say a .8, who would have the final word in saying the fight was off?
Interesting question, but I can't say with any authority that is is done.

[iceman]

.2 is probably like drinking six 12 oz beers in an hour for a 170 lb'er...i am doing just rough math. in perspective, .40 is near dead or dead(i think). if he lost a fight, was seriously upset i could see dowing a half liter of whiskey or such and hitting .2 as for coke, a friend once told me he quit Thai boxing on the west coast of the USA due to the fact most of the guys were snorting their brains out before the fight. no pain in a sport built off pain =clear advantage

[Andre]

.2 is probably like drinking six 12 oz beers in an hour for a 170 lb'er...i am doing just rough math. in perspective, .40 is near dead or dead(i think). if he lost a fight, was seriously upset i could see dowing a half liter of whiskey or such and hitting .2 as for coke, a friend once told me he quit Thai boxing on the west coast of the USA due to the fact most of the guys were snorting their brains out before the fight. no pain in a sport built off pain =clear advantage

Yeah I recon a mix of angel dust and coke and daffy duck could beat the Tasmanian devil.