The fighter who brings in the most money normally gets the perks.
GGG’s trainer Abel Sanchez thinks Canelo is getting special treatment, not just about his failed drug test, but other things as well.
He breaks it down to YAHOO SPORTS.
Sanchez said “certain commissions in this game are very lenient toward certain fighters,” and said Nevada has been lenient toward Alvarez. Sanchez is still upset because he alleges that inspectors for the Nevada commission allowed Alvarez to use a hand-wrapping technique called stacking, which he says is illegal, before Golovkin’s fight with Alvarez on Sept. 16, 2017, in Las Vegas.
Sanchez pointed out that isn’t the first time Alvarez, who has fought 10 times previously in Las Vegas, has received favorable treatment from the Nevada commission. He mentioned two controversial scoring decisions. Judge C.J. Ross scored the Alvarez-Floyd Mayweather fight on Sept. 14, 2013, a draw even though the other judges had it 9-3 and 8-4 in favor of Mayweather. Then, last year, judge Adalaide Byrd scored the first Alvarez-Golovkin fight 10-2 in favor of Alvarez, and was briefly benched by Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission.
Canelo says it was containment meat that caused his two fail drug tests, Sanchez isn’t so sure.
“My biggest concern is that it doesn’t get brushed under the rug and that it’s investigated and that the experts, of which I’m not one, look into it as thoroughly as they would if it were Golovkin who tested positive,” Sanchez said. “It just seems there are certain commissions in this game that are very lenient toward certain fighters, Texas being one of them, Nevada being the other. Certain fighters get relaxed rules, I guess you could say, and everyone else has to follow certain rules.
“This time, this is a big enough event that the commission needs to seriously investigate all that has happened in the past. I know he’s never tested positive before this, but this stuff [Clenbuterol], it’s not something you start using because of a whim. People who are cheaters, if he is, and I’m not saying it’s not the beef, because it could be the meat, but let’s make this investigation go deep, because you just don’t start all of a sudden using that.”
No matter what Abel thinks the fight is going to happen.