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Yes, I linked and summarized her fight against Broadhurst, unless that tape was taken down as well. I watched a few others, but that felt like too much linking for shit that it is readily apparent that no one watched, or possibly even read the summary of. Her fight with Broadhurst is representative, in that she is clearly the weaker fighter physically, getting bodied around the ring by Broadhurst.
I've only ever sparred with women, never gone full speed. But I agree with you: a man obviously punches much, much harder than a woman. ((I will say training has a big impact on how hard women hit pads, but that is of limited value)) Which is why it is obvious that Imane Khelif is not a man: Hermano Khelif would have been muscling her opponents around, battering their defenses with a brutal level of strength. If one watches boxing at the amateur level one can see the pattern of how a fight between a physically dominant but less skilled fighter goes with a more skilled boxer. It doesn't look like Khelif v Broadhurst.
Were the videos in your OP? I didn't see them there if so.
Anyways, I guess there's some middle ground between 'full blown dude' and 'elevated testosterone' with these intersex conditions. Since we aren't sure exactly what's up with Khelif this is bound to be speculative, but I think men tend to sit at something in the area of 20x the T levels of the average woman.
So if Khelif sits at 5-10x normal, this would still stack up poorly against full blown dudes, but would be well in the realm of full-blown doping in an XX athlete.
Doping, of course, is not allowed -- not sure where one should draw the line, but fighting sports make the issue a bit starker than with someone who just runs a bit faster or whatever.
They were linked! You can also just Google insane Khelif v Broadhurst!
Those are all important possibilities, but Khelif doesn't even fight like a stronger physical fighter. She mostly fights like a tall, lanky, weak fighter. Seriously, I don't understand what the argument that she's a man is, precisely because a man would just get in there and physically dominate! Why didn't she up until just the fight with Carini?
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