By Jim Dower: Saul Canelo Alvarez has tested negative for his 3rd consecutive VADA conducted test for the drug clenbuterol, which could potentially get him cleared by the Nevada State Athletic Commission of their investigation and allow him to fight middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin on May 5.
By Jeff Aramow: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has a sure fire way of stopping drug cheats permanently in the sport of boxing by having them sent to jail after they test positive for banned drugs.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Abel Sanchez says Saul Canelo Alvarez’s legacy will be forever tarnished after his positive test for the performance enhancing drug clenbuterol, and he thinks the boxing public will never forget this.
By Sean Jones: Saul Canelo Alvarez is no longer testing positive for the performance enhancing (PEDs) clenbuterol, according to RingTV. That’s the good news. Canelo’s last test conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping (VADA) agency on March 2 showed negative for clenbuterol.
By Adam Godfrey: The Boxing world was rocked this week in the wake of revelations that its biggest star, Mexican Middleweight Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, tested positive for the known performance enhancing drug Clenbuterol. Clenbuterol has an established history of being used as a means to strip fat whilst retaining aerobic capacity, and its notoriety has grown thanks to high-profile Boxers being caught with it in their system in recent years. Mexican legend Erik Morales was suspended for two years after testing positive in 2013, and Australian Heavyweight Lucas Browne was similarly banned in 2016.
By Sean Jones: Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez states that the Nevada State Athletic Commission allowed Saul Canelo Alvarez to use illegal hand wrapping technique called ‘stacking’ for the previous fight between them on September 16 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Sean Jones: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders says Saul Canelo Alvarez is nothing more than a “drug cheat” that has been using “jungle juice” following his positive test for the banned drug clenbuterol.