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

[mcdonalds]

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?

Damn you're so ****** that you think you automatically test positive if you eat meat there like once. How do you even know what he ate when he was in mexico? LOL

Does GGG live there? Has he been there for an extended period of time? How do you know how much meat he ate?

You are so racist and ****** that youre trying to argue about something you clearly know nothing about.

Get over it you LOST

[chrisJS]

http://www.espn.com/sports/soccer/ne...s-17-world-cup

There you go, ******.

7 years ago. That **** doesn't fly anymore.

You race rooters are well and truly in damage control here.

Bottom line is that even if you believe Canelo's story you have to admit that he has something in his body that is giving him an unfair advantage surely? Or is it still the white man's fault and is GGG cheating?

[WesternChamp]

damm floyd fans showing their true colors. its like they're mad that canelo got caught.. what happen to a cleaning up the sport? i guess it only apply to certain fighter......

[boxinggod101]

The funny thing is some of u dummies accuse fighters that never tested positive. The good ole mexican excuse of tainted meat lol

[COVID-19]

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'."

Well this should be a zero tolerance situation, then maybe there will be less chance of this happening.

These guys have plenty of money to only eat the best foreign and untainted meat if they really wanted.

This is just an excuse to mask steroids.

[sotgoda]

No need to cancel the fight. The only point I will like to make is this: imagine if GGG was the one caught with the test failure? wow... all hell will break lose and there will be a lot of excuses. E.g. no wonder he was putting people down, he is not as good he is, he is trying to get an edge, etc.

Now it is Canelo who is having to deal with this now. See the double standard that life has to offer?

I personally don't believe Canelo is using PEDs... but sometimes perception is enough for your name to be soiled all over the place, which is unfair.

Everyone with an eye knows Canelo lost the 1st fight just like Ward lost against Kovalev the 1st fight (yes, I said it and am black). I hope we can all just respect these fighters instead of denigrating them.

[chrisJS]

Damn you're so ****** that you think you automatically test positive if you eat meat there like once. How do you even know what he ate when he was in mexico? LOL

Does GGG live there? Has he been there for an extended period of time? How do you know how much meat he ate?

You are so racist and ****** that youre trying to argue about something you clearly know nothing about.

Get over it you LOST

With spelling like yours you really aren't in a position to call anyone ******. Clearly this is an excuse to mask steroids in 2018 given that the cases started 7 years ago.

You have admitted to being racist and xenophobic before. Stop with the finger pointing.

You are on a Boxing forum attempting to talk Boxing so it's clear you are trying to argue something every day that you know nothing about.

Canelo has an unfair advantage and banned substance in his body as based on facts. GGG doesn't yet you are so racist you are blaming this all on GGG and white people. What's next? He put the meat into Canelo's body? Pathetic.

[Just looking]

There's no one who doesn't want to see this fight . The first, although a clear win by Golovkin, wasn't conclusive enough for some and certainly not as entertaining as expected

[meme_man]

damm floyd fans showing their true colors. its like they're mad that canelo got caught.. what happen to a cleaning up the sport? i guess it only apply to certain fighter......

You still mad about May 2nd get over it. Canelo got caught like Hanz said you bought up Mayweather for no reason.

[Curt Henning]

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.

oh i could care less whats in any of these guys pockets.....but its just common sense isnt it?

i mean....we all heard from the lil g fans about how it just make sense to chase canelo and the money over real fights like ward ya know?

so i figure why wouldnt he still want to fight canelo and get that money when charlo is about a 1/10 of that...and even BJS aint gonna get him half of canelo money.......

so im not sure why any lil g fan would want the fight with canelo off

you're the same guy trying to preach to me about caring what others mens finances are like...yet yer in wilder threads whining like "i dont like him cause hes obnoxious and corny"

LOL...at least wilder tries to be entertaining