GGG fans want to cancel the fight because they are scared!

[chrisJS]

Youre such an ignorant racist that you don't realize that almost every year mexican soccer players get tested positive for clenbuterol

In 2011 for the U 17 world cup over 100 soccer players tested positive for clenbutero because the tournament was held in Mexico!

You need to do your research

It's an excuse that's been abused. You'd think after 5-6 years you'd work out a way to not fail a test like eating imported beef or chicken. You are such an ignorant racist that even Canelo failing his test is the fault or GGG, his fans and probably the fault of European's. You would not give a European fighter a pass for eating "contaminated beef".

You don't know **** about soccer either. Must upset you that a European country will again win the World Cup this year.

[Chrismart]

Nah, this whole thing has nothing to do with GGG or his fans. This is all about Canelo and clenbuterol. That's the focus.

[Curt Henning]

ggg fans should not want out of this fight

either lil gets lit up like a christmas tree by canelo and they can use an excuse as an "out"

or he gets lit up like a christmas tree by charlo for 1/10 of the money

they should at least wanna see lil g cash out big when he gets plugged in

[mcdonalds]

It's an excuse that's been abused. You'd think after 5-6 years you'd work out a way to not fail a test like eating imported beef or chicken. You are such an ignorant racist that even Canelo failing his test is the fault or GGG, his fans and probably the fault of European's.

You don't know **** about soccer either. Must upset you that a European country will again win the World Cup this year.

You're such an ignorant racist you also don't realize that a lot of mexican athletes test positive almost every year because of clenbuterol in meat.

Doping Associations and professional leagues such as the NFL warned athletes that eating the meat in china or mexico coauld cause you to test positive for clenbuterol

Do more research because you clearly don't know what you're talking about you racist

[chrisJS]

ggg fans should not want out of this fight

either lil gets lit up like a christmas tree by canelo and they can use an excuse as an "out"

or he gets lit up like a christmas tree by charlo for 1/10 of the money

they should at least wanna see lil g cash out big when he gets plugged in

Why should or would any man care about what's in another man's pockets? I thought that was just a Mayweather fanboy thing.

I also wouldn't be that sure of Charlo either. He's largely unproven.

[Jubei]

Clenbuterol is a diuretic. Why would Gennady or Ca$hnelo be "cutting" weight March 5th? Still 8 full weeks away from the fight.

They aren't. They are just beginning training.

If this had been a steroid or relevant "PED" there would be serious flags being raised. However, Mexico has very lax laws regarding their food+agriculture and the result is something like this.

Again, 8 weeks out - using a diuretic as the SMALLER fighter - not likely

Only people who hold this against Ca$hnelo are ball juGGGlers who fear an L and would rather frame "PED cheat" than watch their idol get savaged

"Crazy Bulk" Clenbuterol

Imcreases endurance.

Improves stamina.

Increases definition and muscle hardness.

surely a diuretic you dummy

They suspended and stripped Lucas Browne, a Heavyweight for a diuretic then?

[chrisJS]

You're such an ignorant racist you also don't realize that a lot of mexican athletes test positive almost every year because of clenbuterol.

Doping Associations and professional leagues such as the NFL warned athletes that eating the meat in china or mexico coauld cause you to test positive for clenbuterol

Do more research because you clearly don't know what you're talking about you racist

Yet GGG ate meat there and hasn't failed and you are blaming this whole thing on him and his fans because you are a racist. Like I said you are not a Boxing fan so you are 100% backing the excuses if it was the other way around you'd demand GGG be sentenced to death. I am a Boxing fan so I can be su****ious. He's in a very small % that has failed.

Is the reason you can't even spell correctly due to European's being racist against you are damaging your brain?

[bigdunny1]

Any other sport and the athlete would be banned straight away even with contaminated food. It's the athletes job to make sure they control what they eat.

Not true the NFL did not ban Duane Brown for exact same thing.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...golovkin-fight

Canelo Alvarez's camp blames suspect meat for positive clenbuterol test

Dan Rafael
ESPN Senior Writer

Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez, who is in training for his mega rematch with unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin, has tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol.

Golovkin and Alvarez are scheduled to meet on May 5 (HBO PPV) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a rematch of their hugely controversial draw last September. It is unclear whether the positive test will affect the rematch.

As part of the deal for the first fight, as well as for the rematch, both boxers agreed to be randomly tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.

Alvarez, who is training in his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico, provided urine samples on Feb. 17 and Feb. 20, and both tests came back positive for trace amounts of clenbuterol, according to the letter VADA president Margaret Goodman sent to those involved on Monday, and obtained by ESPN.

Clenbuterol has shown up in drug tests for many Mexican athletes in recent years because of meat contamination in the country. Alvarez also said meat contamination caused his positive test.

"As part of the voluntary testing program that Canelo Alvarez insisted on ahead of his May 5 fight, one of his results came back positive for trace levels of clenbuterol, consistent with meat contamination that has impacted dozens of athletes in Mexico over the last years," Golden Boy Promotions, Alvarez's promoter, said in a statement addressing the positive test.

"As Daniel Eichner, director of [the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory], the WADA-accredited lab that conducted the tests stated in his letter [on Monday], 'These values are all within the range of what is expected from meat contamination.' Upon receiving this information, Golden Boy immediately notified the Nevada State Athletic Commission and Gennady Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler."

In the letter VADA sent disclosing the positive test, Goodman said she had spoken to Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Bob Bennett and that "the current plan is to continue to test Mr. Alvarez so that the Nevada State Athletic Commission can make a final determination. Mr. Alvarez has the right to promptly request analysis of the 'B' samples at his expense."

Alvarez usually does the bulk of his training for fights in San Diego, and Golden Boy said he would immediately move his camp there "and will submit to any number and variety of additional tests that VADA deems necessary ahead of and after May 5."

Loeffler was notified of the positive test and said Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) is also aware of it but that they are waiting to hear more from the Nevada commission before making an assessment.

"We're not really going to comment until we get more detail from VADA and the commission. We'll reserve comment," Loeffler told ESPN. "But Gennady has always insisted on VADA testing for any of his fights. He punches so hard that [trainer] Abel [Sanchez] wanted nobody to have any doubt about his training program. Gennady feels very strongly about a clean sport and level playing field for both guys. He can't comment on this test specifically, but that's his position. It's premature to say anything more without knowing all of the details."

Alvarez said he was embarrassed by the positive test.

"I am an athlete who respects the sport and this surprises me and bothers me because it had never happened to me," Alvarez said in a statement. "I will submit to all the tests that require me to clarify this embarrassing situation and I trust that at the end the truth will prevail."

According to Gomez, Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) has undergone random testing administered by VADA or the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for his past 12 fights dating to his 2012 decision win over Shane Mosley.

"He's been tested many times and never had findings, nothing. And every fight they test him 10, 15 times, at least a dozen times," Gomez said. "This is something Canelo insists on it. We're very confident that everything is going to be fine."

Bennett told ESPN that the Nevada commission would investigate the situation before ruling on whether the fight would take place or not.

"We will do our due diligence and once it's done we'll let it be known whether we're going to move forward (with the fight)," Bennett told ESPN.

This is not the first time a prominent Mexican fighter has tested positive for clenbuterol in the lead-up to a fight.

In 2012, Erik Morales blamed contaminated meat for his positive tests ahead of his rematch with then-junior welterweight world champion Danny Garcia in New York. The fight went ahead, and Garcia sent Morales into retirement with a fourth-round knockout.

In 2016, then-junior lightweight world titleholder Francisco Vargas, also of Mexico, tested positive for clenbuterol during his training camp for a defense against former titleholder and countryman Orlando Salido. The California State Athletic Commission, in consultation with both fighters' camps, allowed it to go on because the panel gave Vargas the benefit of the doubt that the bad test was because he ate tainted meat in Mexico.

He was, however, subject to much more rigorous random drug testing for the remainder of his camp. The fight went on in Carson, California, and Vargas and Salido battled to a hellacious draw in the 2016 fight of the year.

In 2016, former Texans left tackle Duane Brown tested positive for clenbuterol. Brown, who now plays for the Seattle Seahawks, was not disciplined, and the drug program's independent administrator sent a letter warning players that consumption of too much meat in Mexico and China could cause a positive test for the anabolic substance.

Bennett said that "naturally there will be increased testing" for Alvarez and that the case "appears to be at a situation that runs parralell to Mr. Vargas'."

[TheBigLug]

Spoken like a true Trump supporter. Zero knowledge of what's going on and zero insight about PED's or this particular drug.

Use some common sense folks lmfao

But it's a banned substance right? or is it not?

If it is a banned substance, you don't think he should pay the price for it?

[chrisJS]

As a fighter ever said "Yeah, you got me. I cheated" ? That's very rare. They all play innocent.

NO. Of course they will be spinning this and using excuses. Even for the racists that are saying it's fine he cheats well let's just say that he didn't know he was cheating (lol), can you just admit that the guy actually had illegal substances in his body and is in actual control of what goes into his body? Or is it still GGG's fault?