Michael Rothstein, ESPN Body of workers Essayist
Undisputed teenager light-weight champion Alycia Baumgardner examined sure for 2 blocked elements throughout a voluntary anti-doping take a look at eminent into her July 15 tussle in opposition to Christina Linardatou, her promoter, Matchroom Boxing, introduced Wednesday.
Baumgardner, who defeated Linardatou via unanimous determination in her first protection of her undisputed name, excepted a observation pronouncing she had examined sure for mesterolone and methenolone acetate metabolites in her pre-fight “A Sample” on July 12, however her exams upcoming the tussle on July 15 and every other take a look at on July 16 each got here again blank.
“Two substances I’ve never heard of or used in any way,” Baumgardner mentioned within the observation, which used to be posted to social media.
“To be abundantly clear, I know that I never have, never would, and never will take this or any other drug. Not only would doing so be unethical, but it would also be completely contrary to how I’ve trained my entire career.”
Matchroom Boxing mentioned in a observation that it used to be knowledgeable of “adverse analytical finding” on Aug. 12 and that it could defer to “regulatory authorities … for further action and guidance as a full investigation is conducted.”
Baumgardner mentioned she had “no intention of sitting back in silence and letting this play out.”
Matchroom Boxing mentioned it could lend a hand Baumgardner and her group, “affording her the appropriate due process.”
Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KO) is the second one Matchroom fighter to check sure in an anti-doping take a look at this date upcoming Dillian Whyte failed a take a look at within the supremacy as much as his tussle in opposition to Anthony Joshua.
