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Tom Loeffler claims Voluntary Anti-Doping Association took the unprecedented move to cancel a scheduled drug test after Canelo Alvarez’s rematch with Gennady Golovkin.
Alvarez won a close points decision over Golovkin in their second encounter in September, a year after the middleweights had fought to a draw in their first fight.
The rematch had to be postponed when Alvarez tested positive for a banned substance and was subsequently banned for six months.
Alvarez has always denied he intentionally took clenbuterol, but was repeatedly bashed by Golovkin and his team in the build-up to the rematch.
And after Golovkin was again thwarted by the judges, his promoter claims there was some strange decision making at VADA in regards to test scheduling.
‘VADA scheduled a random test for GGG a week after the fight,’ Loefller said on Twitter responding to a post.
‘Strange that it was scheduled then cancelled, maybe Canelo was already in Mexico eating steaks celebrating his “decision”.’
After speculation began to swirl as to why Alvarez would be allowed to cancel a random drug test, Loeffler clarified it was not the Mexican who made the decision.
Alvarez signed up to year-round testing with VADA after a huge backlash to his positive drug tests in February.
The 28-year-old seems to have little interest in completing the trilogy with Golovkin and is instead booked to fight WBA (Regular) champion Rocky Fielding in December.
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