Im not sure of the "legalese" on this. De La Hoya was on an IV drip directly before the Pac fight (Roach said his arms were even still bleeding). Is that different to what Floyd did?
Difference is floyd didn't do it & beat pac while de la hoya did it and lost, but because he,s mexican the fanboys don,t care.
NO, it is no different at all. The NSAC has no rule that prohibits it, as long as it is not a banned substance, which saline is not.
This is probably going to turn into a fan-boy off which is unfortunate, but I was actually wondering. It was my understanding that IV drips between weigh ins and fights was a pretty regular thing and was wondering was there something specific about this instance
The UFC just banned IV drips this year. In the UFC every single fighter has been using them for years yet I never heard this argument before.
The difference is that Oscar killed himself to make the weight and was at such a weak state at 145lbs he was unable to rehydrate without the help of saline drip (which we are to assume was legal levels which is acceptable) which barely helped in the grand scheme of things. He was a zombie at that weight. Floyd took 750mg, 14x the legal amount of saline to 'rehydrate.' That's the shadiest part of it all on Floyd's part because it raises huge red flags with regards to potential PED use on his part, as there is a reason there is a limitation on the amount of saline you are allowed to legally inject, a large amount of saline is typically used as a masking agent for other chemicals. Why would Floyd, a fighter who trains year round and is within 10lb of 147 at all times need a saline drip to rehydrate in the first place, much less 750mg. Thats suspicious as hell. Not even gonna get into the ****ery on USADA behalf just yet. Incredibly shady the way it's been handled by Floyd as well as USADA. Terrible black eye for boxing. Looking forward to how it develops. So far no good.
Oscar was not under USADA and the drug-testing protocol that Mayweather was under for his fight against Pacquiao.
Bennett actually agreed, as there was no illegal actions found by Mr Mayweather. He did state that he should have been administered at a medical facility, but Should and prohibited are to diff things.
Here is the difference Delahoya was actually dehydrated he han't been at 147 in over what 5 yrs maybe more it was also administered under a watchful eye and the fluids were monitored with Floyd Armstrong he did it at his house and used an excessive amount of saline and viatamin c triple the amount that was acceptable for his so called rehydration ..He was masking something what it was we will never know because it's all out his system ..
IV's were likely legal at the time Oscar fought Pac, they were not always banned. I remember watching an interview with Ronda Rousey where she mentioned IV's being used by Judoka in Judo events. Also while Oscar used an IV we don't know how much he used and it was likely approved by NSAC at the time unlike Mayweather's IV use.