I had no idea either!
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No , clearly a few years unless hes had a tough paper round between fights 
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In all fairness on the left he’s weighing in for welter ( 147 llbs)
On the right he’s maxed out ready to shred to 157 for the Eubank fight, probably 163… ish llbs.
However … he’s juiced !
It’s not a “natural “ physique
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I don’t follow boxing, football, rugby, golf, F1…or even really Tri nowadays!
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Lol
I didn’t know who Harland was ?
Norwegian who scores goals for Man City the other day? People thought i was kidding ?!
His dad is my favourite ever boxer, sad state of affairs.
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Looking at the tats and it’s a sky PPV card probably 2 years or so, he will have been on the warm ups I think but that’s just a guess.
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I was scratching my head a bit there, couldn’t see Alfie Haaland as much of a boxer, then realised you meant Nigel Benn 
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Sorry re reading it I can see your point.
The dark destroyer was a great fighter, not the best boxer ever but a proper scrapper.
Not sure what he makes of this, unless he knew of course, people saying he obviously took his misses fertility drugs!!
Lol
Being born and brought up in Brighton, Eubank (Snr) all the way!
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The jaw thing is a common side effect of steroid use no?
I have no doubt the Pandemic was a great opportunity taken by loads of pros & amateurs to juice to the gills, with no OOC testing.
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They don’t need to worry, just the odd one who gets Bertied because they upset someone or got too fast.
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Sure, but I bet people felt it was a lot ‘safer’ environment to do it when everyone was locked away minding their own business!
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There have definitely been a load of fast times as events restarted after lockdowns came to an end. There was a lot of 
going on.
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I bet the Russians are peeved they didn’t get to flex their #gainz.
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Its rife in the amateurs, I’m convinced at least one person at my ex tri club was on the sauce, and once he joined a few average athletes were suddenly getting more competitive results whilst going to the gym with him bulking up. A bloke who is 5ft tall and weighs more than me, looks like a body building prop forward doesn’t suddenly come from nowhere to run 33min 10’k’s. A skinny girl who suddenly wouldn’t have looked out of place on a stage and was getting podiums and medals, both bragging about stressful jobs with long hours. No solid proof but I’ve coached long enough to know when things are extraordinary. Maybe it was all the hard work they managed to recover from whilst doing long hours at work. Only saving grace none of the suspects had kids so maybe could fit it all in
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Or one could argue, more (overly) self focused, driven, open to risk.
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I feel the vilification of a lot of the Russian athletes is a bit harsh. Putin was clearly using the old Eastern Bloc idea of showing how wonderful his reign is via athletic prowess. I doubt an athlete with medal potential had much choice in whether they performed clean or not. Their choice may not have been cheat/don’t cheat but cheat/prison for them or family members. It is likely an abusive scenario for in the ‘system’. I appreciate that won’t be the case for some like Sharapova.
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IM Barcelona was particularly popular with Russian AGers, as was Italy…rules are for other people is their attitude.
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Yeah but they’re amateurs, I meant proper athletes in national federation systems. Amateurs doping is a sad indictment of their lives IMO.
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