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The BDB (Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer) had this week changed the result of Soliman’s victory over Felix Sturm (37-4-2, 16 KOs) on February 1 to a no-contest. Soliman’s manager, Dave Stanley successfully sought to have the B sample split so it could be tested in a US laboratory that does regular screening of boxers, including IBF boxers. Soliman is now keen to move on and face current champion Daniel Geale (29-1, 15 KOs). The IBF had ordered Geale to make a mandatory defense against Soliman
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Sturms reply:Sam Soliman just announced that his B-sample came back clean. To us, this does not make sense at all. He confessed to drinking an energy drink containing the forbidden stimulant found in the A-sample. Again, they made a confession.
We do not know what they tested the B-sample for in the lab they have chosen. We know that the sample was split and one half is still at the NADA/WADA lab in Cologne, Germany. We are sure that this will confirm the result of the A-sample, if they elect to have it opened. From the beginning, Team Soliman insisted that the substance found was not forbidden by the IBF. But it is. Oxilofrine is regarded as a stimulant and all stimulants are banned by the IBF. Furthermore, both the BDB and the NADA/WADA list Oxilofrine on their list of banned substances.
We therefore believe that their part of the B-sample was not even tested for the substance found in the A-sample. Once again, they have confessed to taking said substance
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