World Boxing Council Breaks Down Ongoing Drug Testing Program

By World Boxing Council

The  World Boxing Council worked diligently with the Voluntary AntiDoping Associattion (VADA) as its administrator to launch the Clean Boxing Program (CBP) around the world during 2016. For a better understanding what the Clean Boxing Program is, we would like to explain the different chapters of the CBP.

Mandatory random out of competition testings.

All world champions and all Top 15 rated fighters are mandated to enroll, as otherwise they are removed from the ratings. All boxers are invited to voluntarily enroll in the program.

All testing is under the directive of VADA and the collections procedure is performed by collecting agents from the international agency Clearidium. with unannounced visits to the randomly selected fighters by VADA.

All enrolled fighters have the obligation to inform of any changes of their location throughout the whereabouts process to VADA.

This process began effectively on October 1, 2016.  All boxers rated in the Top 15 who did not enroll into the CBP program were removed from the WBC rankings. Some of those fighters who did not originally enroll have eventually done so and have returned to the ratings of the WBC as the doors are always open to those fighters who believe in clean boxing and join the WBC/CBP.

Following is the list of fighters who were tested from October-December 2016 through the out of competition, random process: Bellew, Anthony; Bute, Lucien; Browne, Lucas; Duhaupas, Johann; Garcia, Mikey; Groves, George; Jack, Badou; Mendy, Ivan; Nelson, Willie (missed); Nielsen, Patrick; Porter, Shawn; Povetkin, Alexander (multiple); Pulev, Kubrat; Santa Cruz, Leo; Smith, Callum; Smith, Ishe; Smith, Stephen; Stiverne, Bermane (multiple); Warrington, Josh.

Contracted fights tested under the CBP program in 2016: Khan-Alvarez, Postol-Matthysse, Golovkin-Lemieux, Vargas-Salido, Golovkin-Brook, Wilder-Povetkin, Povetkin-Stiverne.

Training of collection officers by Clearidium in 2016. (Luis Escalona) - At the recent  WBC convention, one of the most prominent doping collection companies in the world, Clearidium, led by their President & CEO Dr. Rasmus Dansgaard, taught a two-day course for doping collection officers. Experienced and new officers attended from all over the U.S., as well as from Austria, Great Britain, Denmark, Ghana, Jamaica, Lithuania, and Mexico. The course covered the highest standard of blood and urine collection, in addition to in-depth discussion regarding maintaining chain-of-custody.  Clearidium performs all of VADA’s doping collections. 12 new trainees were approved and certified as collection agents by the firm. This is the second time the WBC has sponsored this event, and the only course of its kind dedicated to professional boxing.