Comments Thread For: Canelo-Chavez Jr: Golden Boy Prez on Drug Testing, Weight, More

[Robbie Barrett]

Your obsession with GGG is bordering unhealthy man! You pretend to hate Canelo, but I'm starting to think it's a ruse. Is it a ruse?

Canelo wasn't going to fight GGG in May.

Golovkin fans swamp every Canelo thread. Being hypocrites again.

[Motorcity Cobra]

So no drug testing for Canelo/Smith for a weight Canelo hadn't made in years but drug testing for a weight Chavez Jr hasn't made in years Canelo is savage

[PlasterWraps]

Great move by Canelo. Golovkin was eyeing a Chavez fight, Canelo just took another money fight away from him.

"I'm a fan of boxing doe"

[Robbie Barrett]

"I'm a fan of boxing doe"

You should be happy then. Less options, more likely Golovkin takes Canelo's offer for September.

[Eastcoast]

Please put this fight in Dallas! I think the energy level at AT&T Stadium would be way higher than at the disappointing T-Mobile Arena.

Olympic style drug testing doesn't mean anything if the protocol is weak. They can pick and chose what drugs are prohibited and when those drugs are tested for.

[_Maxi]

2 years ago??? More like 13 months. But who's counting...

Canelo won the WBC title in november 2015. From november 2015 to sept 2017 there are 22 months. And we don't even know if there will be a fight in september 2017, doesn't seem so.

[_Maxi]

You should be happy then. Less options, more likely Golovkin takes Canelo's offer for September.

Why less options? GGG can still fight Chavez jr after...

[IRONCHINHAGLER]

But wait...per Canelo and his team - " I am not a MW, I have to build my body(aka balls) up to 160 b4 I fight Ggg". Wat a crock!!

[Bronx2245]

I remember when everyone used to say that VADA was the best, until VADA busted Povetkin before the Wilder fight. Then it was "VADA sucks," "Wilder is ducking Povetkin!" Then Povetkin got busted again, before fighting Stiverne. So is VADA still the best? Pacquiao fans, please chime in!

[Scipio2009]

Please put this fight in Dallas! I think the energy level at AT&T Stadium would be way higher than at the disappointing T-Mobile Arena.

Olympic style drug testing doesn't mean anything if the protocol is weak. They can pick and chose what drugs are prohibited and when those drugs are tested for.

T-Mobile Arena can seat 20k, plus still have the tickets aggressively priced; AT&T Stadium (or Aztec Stadium, for that matter), may have the ability to put a ton of energy into the region, but what does the money difference between the two venues look like realistically?

Alvarez-Smith did $5m at the gate; on tickets alone, expecting to see Alvarez-ChavezJr do $10m at the gate in TX isn't much of a reach.

The scope is different but Mayweather-Pacquiao did over $70m on 17k seats (and that's before you count the money from the rest of the closed circuit venues across the MGM Resorts properties in Las Vegas, the most notable being the event at the 11k-seat Mandalay Bay EC).

$20m, for a sellout of T-Mobile Arena, isn't all that unlikely