Originally posted by SoggyLungs
Its Tested For and is Banned In Nevada (Within the week of and in the fight)
De La Hoya was given a shot of Lidocaine the day of the injury to numb the cut area so the stitches could be taken. Lidocaine is a substance banned by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. But Marc Ratner, CEO of the commission, said there is no violation as long as De La Hoya informed the commission when he took it and why.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DE+LA+...29-a0122340014
Kizer confirmed yesterday that lidocaine is banned for use by boxers within a week of a bout. “If lidocaine is injected,” he said, “the pain receptors in the boxer may not work and he may not know if he is hurt.” He also confirmed that lidocaine would be tested for after the bout, at the Quest Diagnostics laboratory in the city.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle3019074.ece
Tested as far back as 1989
Nevada boxing officials said yesterday they would fine and probably suspend Lloyd Honeyghan. They said the British fighter tested positive for the painkilling drug lidocaine after losing his World Boxing Council welterweight title to Marlon Starling on Feb. 4.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/18/sp...l?pagewanted=1
The official answers on Xylocaine: Is it illegal in the USA? Is it banned in Boxing? Is it a PED? - National Fight Sports | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/fight-sports...#ixzz1Q1knQl99
Michael Marley - True that: Floyd Mayweather is cleaner than Board Of Health
As Kizer explained it, fighters must, under penalty of perjury, sign a statement at the fight weigh ins discloosing what, if any, pain or other serious medication they have used or plan to use anytime between the weigh in and fight time.
“Mayweather has never disclosed any such information so, as far as we are concerned, this is not any kind of issue. I know the ardent Pacquiao fans talk a lot about but to us it's the same as the speculation about Pacquiao using any sort of drugs which comes from the Mayweather fans out there. Both of them have always tested clean in Nevada.”
Kizer said he could name other boxers who have asked permission to use aspirin, Lidocaine, cortisone and other “pain the****utic” medications.
(Nevada commission director Keith Kizer)
http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-Boxin...ands-are-clean
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