Jose Canseco Stops Using Steroids and Can't Win a Fight Against Danny Bonaduce

Feb 16

Jose Canseco Stops Using Steroids and Can't Win a Fight Against Danny Bonaduce

Former Major League Baseball player and former steroid user Jose Canseco fought to a three-round draw with Danny Bonaduce in a celebrity boxing match on Saturday, January 24, 2009. Promoter Damon Feldman, capitalizing on the public’s desire to see Jose Canseco “get beat up”, offered the down-and-out Canseco the opportunity to make some extra money by going against the former child star of the “Partridge Family”.

The capacity crowd of 2,000 mostly Bonaduce supporters booed and jeered Canseco throughout the match. The tale of the tape gave Canseco every physical advantage; Canseco at 6-4 and 260 pounds dwarfed Bonaduce who was 5-6 and 180 pounds. Yet Canseco was still unable to pull out a victory over Bondauce.

Jose Canseco was willing to subject himself to this humiliation for a small appearance fee and $2 per internet pay-per-view customer. Canseco had previously shown his desperation to earn extra income in a boxing match with former Philadelphia Eagles football player Vai Sikahema. Canseco was ridiculed after being summarily knocked out by Sikahema. At least that embarrassment was accompanied by a $35,000 payday.

After Canseco’s public repudiation of the use of steroids, it should come as no surprise that he would struggle against the diminutive Bonaduce. Jose Canseco revealed in the A&E documentary “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot” that his natural testosterone levels were suppressed from using anabolic steroids for over two decades. He made the decision to permanently stop using steroids. And not surprisingly, Canseco experienced classical post-cessation symptoms of anabolic steroid induced hypogonadism (ASIH) such as low libido and depression.

“Well, when you have no testosterone level, you’re depressed, you lose muscle mass, no sex drive, no libido, you have nothing,” Jose Canseco described his life off steroids. “You’re kind of like tired, depressed all the time. You just don’t want to do anything.”

Canseco has desperately been trying to restore his endogenous testosterone levels. But misfortune continues to follow him. He was sentenced to probation after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to smuggling 6 vials of HCG across the U.S - Mexico border. He told the judge that he was simply attempting to restore his endogenous hormone production by obtaining HCG from Mexico.

It wasn’t always this way. Once upon a time, Canseco celebrated the benefits of steroids. For 16 years as a Major League Baseball player, Canseco reaped the benefits of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. The resulting enhanced athletic performance made Canseco a bonafide sports star and celebrity. The “godfather of steroids” and “bad boy of baseball” raved about the benefits of anabolic steroids in his bestselling book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big”.

“I believe every steroid out there can be used safely and beneficially - it’s all a question of dosage. Some steroids you cycle off and on, depending on the dose.” […]

“Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. Certain steroids, used in proper combinations, can cure certain diseases. Steroids will give you a better quality of life and also drastically slow down the aging process.” […]

“I have no doubt whatsoever that intelligent, informed use of steroids, combined with human growth hormone, will one day be so accepted that everybody will be doing it.”

Canseco’s certainty about the benefits of steroids gave way to considerable doubt sometime in the past year. As his financial world collapsed around him, Jose Canseco chose to completely abandon his endorsement of anabolic steroids. In a stunning about-face, he rejected all the positive claims for steroids he made in the autobiographical book “Juiced.”

According to new anti-steroid Canseco, “Steroids and the use of steroids destroyed my life completely.” Every star’s fall from glory must have a convenient scapegoat. Canseco has chosen to blame steroids for the individual mistakes responsible for his current predicament.

Sources

“Jose Canseco fights to a draw with Danny Bonaduce in celebrity boxing,” January 25, 2009.

”Canseco apologizes, gets probation for drug charge,” November 5, 2008.

“Jose Canseco Suffering from Anabolic Steroid Induced Hypogonadism,” October 20, 2008.

“It's broke, scared & contrite Jose Canseco in TV documentary,” October 18, 2008.

“Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big,” February 14, 2005.

By Millard Baker

http://www.millardbaker.com

www.SteroidsRx.com