Fighters that smoked or drank or did drugs

[orlandoernandez]

Oscar De La Hoya

[Scott9945]

The 1980's is the worst decade for drug abuse. Johnny Bumphus is one of many wasted talents in that era.

If nobody mentioned Aaron Pryor already you can be sure that is true.

[Kingdelboxeo]

ummmm Ivan Calderon did about 500 Pounds of *******

[Miburo]

At least Monzon didn't smoke between rounds like Locche!

Actually kind of ticks me off. Locche's my favorite fighter of all time and I really think he had GOAT potential, but for his terrible discipline with food and smoking.

With Monzon it was not just smoking, it was his entire lifestyle. And it didn't hurt his performance in the slightest. The guy was just a physical freak who barely had to train to be in shape.

[New England]

micky walker and harry greb


two fisted drinkers

[Check_hooks]

Sugar ray leonard also did alot of coke

[JAB5239]

micky walker and harry greb


two fisted drinkers

I can't say for Walker, but Greb was NOT a big drinker. There have been a lot if tall tales and exaggerations written about Greb and that is one of them.

[New England]

I can't say for Walker, but Greb was NOT a big drinker. There have been a lot if tall tales and exaggerations written about Greb and that is one of them.

i've read plenty about greb and more times than not he's described as both a drinker and a skirt chaser. nothing wrong with either pursuit in moderation i suppose.

obviously the more poetic aspects of a fighters career will be exaggerated over time, and he's not as legendary a drinker as walker, but the man drank his share.

and walker was a prolific drinker
that's far beyond dispute.

[BigStereotype]

Carlos Monzon was a chain smoking, heavy drinking philanderer. In his heydey, he was like James Bond. The real, Sean Connery one, not the PC nonsense recent one.

Tapia's an obvious one
Stanley Ketchel and Greb had crazy partying reputations.

[JAB5239]

i've read plenty about greb and more times than not he's described as both a drinker and a skirt chaser. nothing wrong with either pursuit in moderation i suppose.

obviously the more poetic aspects of a fighters career will be exaggerated over time, and he's not as legendary a drinker as walker, but the man drank his share.

Greb didn't become a skirt chaser till after his wife passed away. The exaggerations of him being a heavy drinker are put to sleep in both the book "The fearless Harry Greb" and by his friend Harry Keck, who was close to him from 1914 till Grebs death in 1926.

A Tale of Two Harrys

Theirs was one of the great, enduring friendships in boxing history. One
went onto great accomplishments in journalism; the other, to pugilistic
immortality.

Harry Keck first met Harry Greb in 1914, when Keck was with the
Pittsburgh Post. Greb was in his second year as a pro. Greb had just
returned from Philadelphia, where he had spent most of a year because
promotional difficulties had led to a temporary suspension of boxing in
Pittsburgh. From then on, Keck was with Greb throughout his career
and conversed with him in Pittsburgh the night before the great
middleweight died on an operating table in Atlantic City in October,
1926.

To the day he died, in April of 1956, Keck vehemently, jealously
guarded the memory of Greb-about whom, Keck argued, more drivel
had been written than about any other fighter.

In 1964, Keck told me, "With each passing year, the Greb legend gets
sillier and sillier. His alleged skirt-chasing, drinking, and apathy to training
are canards that evidently will never die. Harry liked the companionship
of both men and women, would take an occasional drink, and trained as
hard as any fighter I ever knew."