Should Floyd be allowed to use xylocaine for his hands?

[killersheep]

I know some people will bring Pacman into this discussion but I want to keep this about Floyd. He's got brittle hands (or so he says) so he numbs them with xylocaine before each fight (training too). My question is, while he's so concerned with his opponents using drugs to give themselves an advantage, isn't this the same thing? Granted not near to the degree that steroids or HGH would give you, but he doesn't feel a thing on his hands when he throws punches with that stuff on them. His opponents however get the full feeling of impact on their hands when they throw at him. Granted they're mostly hitting his elbows and shoulders etc...But they're hands get weaker as the fight goes on while the effects on his hands are delayed until the next day. You could argue that this is the reason why Floyd rarely fights outside of Las Vegas, its one of the only places (or maybe the only place) where it's legal to use this stuff on fight night. If your opponents can't shoot up (and they shouldn't) you shouldn't be able to medicate your hands for a fight. Let me know what you guys think.

To my knowledge he's only used it once against Castillo and that was after having surgery on his hands, if you could provide documentation of any other time he used it that would be great.

I would have no problem with the NSAC banning Xylocaine, but if it's not against the rules and his opponents are free to use it as well, I can't really say why HE should specifically be banned from using it. To add to that using their current testing methods there would be no way to detect it anyway, so the ban is kind of moot.