Scrap? Do boxers get breathalysed before a fight?

[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.

[greynotsoold]

He did! I saw that cartoon- er, fight.

[Andre]

I swear I saw the coyote catch that smart assed bird right at the end of one cartoon once. Never saw it again,wondered if it was a joke one of. Or if I'd dropped off and dreamt it as a kid .

[Andre]

Found a couple of great ones but these werent it..