He wasn’t a dirty fighter literally or figuratively. He pushed opponents off with elbows but that wasn’t that bad. The illegal IV use for the Pacquiao fight, the rehydration clause with Canelo, the diva demands over gloves with Maidana etc and the fact these things all came out to Floyds benefit (plus the fact he seldom ever fought outside his boxing backyard in Las Vegas) makes me think he needed things to be slanted in his favour. Leonard became a deck stacker late in his career. Up until 1982 he was a legit as it gets
Mayweather moved up to 154 and beat Oscar before the haters could even muster up these sorts of arguments. I don’t think any of those excuses hold any weight. 1. The IV for Pacquiao wasn’t illegal (he was cleared without needing an appeal) and he’d already passed multiple drug tests. Haters conveniently cannot name what he possibly could’ve been flushing. 2. ChatGPT says there was not a rehydration clause for Canelo, and I’ll believe them over Loudon or whomever. 3. Idgaf about the gloves for Maidana either. Leonard was getting knocked around by Norris and Camacho when he got up there in age and was shoving white stuff up his nose that he got from Virginia Park.