Synthol is no joke. Read about Gary Valentino. It's bad shit.
Also it ALWAYS looks disgusting and weird.
Of course.
Is that what Tommy Morrison used for his "pec implants"?
I'll never understand a fighter getting cosmetic surgery. The only time it makes sense to me- facial surgery to remove scar tissue, if you are a fighter who gets cut really frequently. This affects your ability to fight, and will likely lead to a few doctor stoppages, so getting surgery to address this improves you as a fighter.
But fake muscles? If anything, they probably slow you down. And they certainly won't be intimidating professional fighters; a fighter could take one look and know "that guy's pumped full of some kind of plastic bullshit, I'm going to fuck him up". Personally, I would actually rather fight a guy who uses shit like this- because I know he's insecure. I know he's insecure in how he looks, so he's going to be insecure about his abilities. I am not, and I'm just a barely-above average "retired" amateur.
I'd like to see a pec implant get punched out of the body in a fight, fucking spray out of the surgical entry point.
Not sure, I think he might have had silicone? Plenty of fighters have used things to look more aesthetic. When Tim Sylvia, ex mma fighter got busted for steroids he claimed it was because he wanted to look better.
I don't believe Tim Sylvia's reasoning for a second. He was using steroids because everyone (except maybe the Diaz brothers and a couple others) were using all kinds of steroids at the time Sylvia was a hot commodity. I don't think you could compete in the UFC at heavyweight without some chemical assistance.
Sylvia did have a doughy physique, but so what? A lot of heavyweights did, and still do. They aren't insecure about it. Daniel Cormier is a great example. He's not getting liposuction to get rid of his lovehandles. Or, closer to Sylvia's time, how about The Last Emperor himself- Fedor. Fedor looked like an out-of-shape dad who did manual labor for his day job and then spent his evenings drinking beer and eating fried bullshit.
But he'd enter the cage/ring facing men juiced to the gills, muscles coming off of their muscles, and proceed to make them look like children. You'd think professional fighters would be above vanity, or have overcome vanity by the time they're professionals.
One of my favorite examples of an over-muscled, obvious steroid user getting their ass kicked by a skinny, clean athlete was Nick Diaz vs. Marius Zaromskis. Here, enjoy this fantastic fight with me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLa7pdC6iks
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