Comments Thread For: Canelo On Post-Fight Hugs With GGG: I Respect Him As A Fighter; As A Person, I Don't Know

[Monty Fisto]

Canelo: just in case embracing GGG gave an appearance of a classy end, I'd like to make a statement...

[aaronbnb]

Canelo's right. GGG talks politely in English but in Kazakhstan, he talks a lot of crap about Canelo. Canelo talks the same about GGG whether he's speaking English or Spanish.

[Bronx23]

Canelo's right. GGG talks politely in English but in Kazakhstan, he talks a lot of crap about Canelo. Canelo talks the same about GGG whether he's speaking English or Spanish.

Who gives a crap. These guys were never friends and never will be. They sparred like 10 or 15 years ago and that’s it. There’s no obligation for them to be nice to each other or kiss each others azz. They showed respect to each time the final bell rang in all three fights, that’s all that matters

[aaronbnb]

Who gives a crap. These guys were never friends and never will be. They sparred like 10 or 15 years ago and that’s it. There’s no obligation for them to be nice to each other or kiss each others azz. They showed respect to each time the final bell rang in all three fights, that’s all that matters

Agreed. I could give a .... about boxers hugging afterwards. What a memorable moment Barrera waving two fingers at Morales after their trilogy. Back when boxing mattered.

Would've been epic if Canelo had done that in GGG's face.

[rckdees]

Yeah he’s a fraud. In every interview leading up to the fight he couldn’t stop calling ggg two faced and now he saying this? After calling ggg buddy and friend while they were in the ring?….he’s a fraud

[Kzbox]

Yeah he’s a fraud. In every interview leading up to the fight he couldn’t stop calling ggg two faced and now he saying this? After calling ggg buddy and friend while they were in the ring?….he’s a fraud

literally in the last interview he did before the fight he said i HATE Golovkin, he was saying before he means what he says and says what he means that's why he hates GGG for being a fake now he's doing the same thing. It's whatever i don't really care it just shows it was a silly fight and the "hate" was fabricated not like we didn't know that, it was just an excuse for an easy win for Canelo.

[Sid-Knee]

So calling Gennady "Friend" means something different to you Saul? Yeah, you're a hypocrite.

[tokon]

Who gives a crap. These guys were never friends and never will be. They sparred like 10 or 15 years ago and that’s it. There’s no obligation for them to be nice to each other or kiss each others azz. They showed respect to each time the final bell rang in all three fights, that’s all that matters

Yeah, the in-ring respect is one thione outside it they're both hypocrites!

[Citizen Koba]

Canelo was vindicated with the negative follicle test. It would never even be a WADA violation today with all the evidence pointing to his innocence. People condemning him is especially hypocritical when most fighters at the time weren't even testing with no way of knowing what was in their system.

As far as GGG, he lost high ground going out of his way to hire the biggest criminal PED dealers under Victor Conte. He'd also been off the testing radar for long stretches for the last few years but he's talking about how he's the one cleaning up the sport lol.

The negative follicle test was a meaningless gimmiick man. it proved nothing either way. The research around hair testing (and at this stage it is just research, they've yet to devise a reliable and repeatable hair strand test for Clenbuterol) anyway is focused on hair strand testing not hair follicle testing - I can explain the reasons why if you're genuinely interested in the detail.

Anyways suffice to say there remains major unsurmounted problems even today which have prevented hair strand testing for Clen entering WADAs protocols... if they had a reliable test they wouldn't need to have a 5 ng/ml level threshold on Clenbuterol urine tests several orders of magnitude above detectability levels - they did that simply because they still have no way of knowing for sure whether Clen detected in urine came from accidentally ingested food contaminants or from deliberate the****utic use. They couldn't tell in 2018 and they still can't tell now.

Understand that the increased threshold does not indicate that the athlete did not knowingly use Clenbuterol as a PED it's merely indicative of the fact that WADA has no means of reliably proving to high degree of probability that they did use Clenbuterol as a PED. Honestly it's a loophole big enough to drive a truck through and represents a virtual invitation for fighters from the countries where there's a high prevalence of Clen contamination in livestock (China, Mexico, Guatamala) to use the substance with virtual impunity, but for whatever reason WADA (and consequently VADA) have elected to err on the side of protecting the innocent over preventing the guilty from gaining the advantages provided by Clenbuterol.