Ruslan Chagaev: record, next fight and profile →
In the wake of the leaked drug test results surrounding his recent title-winning knockout over Ruslan Chagaev, unbeaten heavyweight titlist Lucas Browne and his team maintain innocence through recently released separate statements.
Solomon Haumono has accused Australia's first world heavyweight boxing champion, Lucas Browne, of being a fraud after he failed a post-fight doping test. Browne is puzzled and considering his legal options after news broke that he tested positive to clenbuterol in the aftermath of his WBA title win over Ruslan Chagaev in Chechnya earlier this month.
As previously reported, Lucas Browne, who recently captured the 'regular' world heavyweight championship of the World Boxing Association, has tested positive for Clenbuterol - according to the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA).
Australia's first world heavyweight boxing champion Lucas Browne has reportedly failed a post-fight doping test and will likely be stripped of his belt. Browne tested positive to the banned substance clenbuterol in a urine test after his fight against Ruslan Chagaev in Chechnya earlier this month.
Lucas Browne is the self-proclaimed 'Big Daddy' of world boxing. Unheralded and virtually unknown outside the Australian boxing fraternity last week, the father of three is enjoying a meteoric rise despite being a relative newcomer to the sport.
History maker Lucas Browne craves more fame and bigger pay days after becoming Australia's first-ever heavyweight boxing world champion with a stirring Rocky-type comeback effort.
Grozny, Russia - Lucas 'Big Daddy' Browne (24-0, 21KOs) was cut, on the floor and hurt several times, but he sucked it up to capture the WBA 'regular' heavyweight championship with a tenth round stoppage of Ruslan 'White Tyson' Chagaev (34-3-1, 21KOs)
On Saturday night in Grozny, Russia, Australia’s Lucas Browne (23-0, 20 KOs) will challenge Uzbekistan’s Ruslan Chagaev (34-2-1, 21 KOs) for the WBA regular heavyweight title as part of a tournament which will eventually see the WBA recognise only one man as champion in the division, as has been the clamour for some time.
Boxing hits some strange outposts these as the sport’s global appeal widens, but who would have thought a world heavyweight championship would wash up in the war-ravaged Russian satellite of Chechnya?
Ruslan Chagaev and Lucas Browne are set to kick off the first round of the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight tournament, with their title fight taking place Saturday evening in Grozny, Russia. Both boxers took to the scales on Friday, with the two fighters traveling different paths in ultimately meeting in the middle. Chagaev weighed in at a near career heaviest 248.4 lbs., while Brown whipped himself into the best shape of his career, checking in at a career lightest 249.3 lbs.