Martirosyan Interview

[boxing_rocks]

He is going hard at Canelo. One good argument: Chavez Jr got 9 months for smoking weed, and Canelo only gets 6 months for clenbuterol???

[Enlightened-One]

He is going hard at Canelo. One good argument: Chavez Jr got 9 months for smoking weed, and Canelo only gets 6 months for clenbuterol???

In November 2009, Chavez tested positive for Furosemide and received a seven months suspension. During March 2013, he tested positive for marijuana and was suspended for nine months. The Mexican was a repeat offender.

In stark contrast, here’s Dougie Fischer’s (The RING) explanation for the punishment imposed on Canelo:

I had three immediate thoughts after the NAC dropped the mandatory one-year PED suspension to six months for Canelo:

1) the investigators of the case conveyed a sincere belief to the commissioners that the Mexican star did indeed accidentally ingest clenbuterol via tainted beef (from Lance Pugmire’s article on the April 18 hearing verdict: “Commissioner Morgan was told by an investigator in the Alvarez case that his discipline was connected to his first offense and did not find that Alvarez took the banned substance intentionally.”)

2) they took into consideration that this was the first time, after 52 professional bouts, that he failed a drug test

3) they still want to be in the Canelo Alvarez business (like pretty much everyone else in boxing).