Quote Originally Posted by luvfightgame View Post
I don't see how anyone could argue that a pain killer wouldn't enhance your performance?

Didn't Clottey essentially lose the Margarito fight because he broke his hand? Didn't Vitali lose the Byrd fight due to a shoulder injury?
Pain killers are performance enhancers. It should be illegal and would certainly not be a "level" playing field if you are numbed up and the other guy isn't. Paulie M. fought many fights basically 1 handed because his hands were hurt. If he were able to take a pain killer and not feel the pain of landing a punch he wouldn't have favored his hurt hand, thus enhancing his performance.

I would almost argue that a pain killer has a more direct impact enhancing your performance than steroids would. Steriods cannot improve your boxing ability, only your strenght and stamina. And actually the accusations from Sr. are that Pac is on something that makes him impervious to pain? Maybe it's a full body xylocaine shot.
Strength and stamina are direct factors in boxing ability. The only purpose of taking PEDs is to enhance ability, which it does in many ways, otherwise they would be rendered useless to athletes. And Mayweather beat Jesus Chavez with a broken hand. Roy Jones beat Hopkins with a broken hand. Margarito also hurt his hand during the Clottey fight. It wasn't Clottey's hand problem it was his no heart problem.