Professional Boxing high on performance enhancing drugs

The use of performance enhancing drugs is on an increase in almost all professional and amateur sports, including professional boxing.

Sportsmen use these performance enhancement drugs for improving performance or adding extra pounds on that bench press or to get bigger in a shorter period of time.

From Boxingnews24.com:

There are anabolic steroids (medicines: androstenedione, ephedrine, stanozolol and nandrolone just to mention a few) for humans and even for animal use, human growth hormone (HGH, somatrotopine), and design laboratories drugs (tetrahydrogestrinone – THG) that have been used to improve the performance of athletes, but even some food supplements are banned; the hyperbaric chambers could be considered as a non natural way to increase your performance in some cases.

The use of performance enhancement drugs gives an illicit advantage to the user, it is shameful and disgraceful, and in some cases it could be even a coward attitude to take that illicit edge on your opponent.

Some argue that PEDS wont give you the skills but they do will give you extra strength, stamina, resistance, speed and power, so if I am a fighter who has average boxing skills I might be able to improve my physique so much that I could end up beating guys who are better naturally gifted than me and even also the ones who are more skilled than me.

Many successful sportsmen of the past had admitted to making the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and the world of professional boxing cannot be the exception.