Alvarez banned for 6 months for doping
London : Canelo Alvarez has been banned from boxing for six months by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for failing two drugs tests.
The punishment is the lightest given for his kind of offence, and following an interim ban in place from April 3, his match-up against Gennady Golovkin for May 5 in Las Vegas has been cancelled.
A match could be rescheduled for mid-September should Golovkin defeat replacement box Vanes Martirosyan.
The ban is backdated to 17 February, meaning his ban will expire 17 August 2018.
Alvarez’s suspension will be lifted on Aug. 17, six months from Feb. 17, the date of his first positive drug test.
In the settlement statment between the state and Alvarrez, it was said:
“Alvarez cooperated with the director’s investigation into the positive urinalyses and provided information related to his diet in the days leading up to the collection of the urinalyses specimen samples, including his statement that he consumed meat during that time.”
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