Comments Thread For: Dillian Whyte Tested Positive For Two Dianabol Metabolites

[Doritos]

How did he get caught taking Dbol of all things? It's in and out of your body in a very short amount of time, he literally just have ingested it within 24 hours of his test.

[Bronx2245]

If you'd listened to the last interview Hearn gave, instead of just looking at the headline and diving in with ignorant comments, like the rest of the herd, you would have heard Eddie outline an important difference between VADA and UKAD.

VADA just do tests and report the results. UKAD act in partnership with the BBBoC, and they have the power to impose sanctions on UK licensed fighters themselves, like provisionally suspending them immediately if they believe an offence has been committed.

After interviewing Dillian and getting certain information from him - Hearn didn't say what that was - and also examining the results of his VADA tests, which he passed, UKAD didn't believe that Dillian had committed a PED violation so they cleared him to fight.

Talking about VADA "clearing" fighters to fight is a figure of speech, which is used all the time by many different people. Why do you suddenly have an issue with Hearn using it now?

And Rivas is advised by Haymon. He signed with him after beating Jennings.

Rivas signed with Michel and Haymon back in 2015! Haymon didn't have anything to do with Rivas vs. Jennings! You would've know that, because he would've thanked Al Haymon, just like Ruiz did after pummeling punk azz Joshua!

Bottom line, Whyte is dirty! Bottom line Hearn knew he was dirty, and did NOT inform Yvon Michel or Rivas! You can try to spin this all you want, but Hearn is FOUL, Whyte is dirty, and a hypocrite (and suddenly very quiet I might add), and if I were advising Ruiz, the rematch is going to be in NY!

[Bronx2245]

Eddie Hearn did not make the decision on whether the fight would go on!

After both fighters were cleared to fight by the BBBoC, he had no power to cancel the fight, even if he'd wanted to.

Did he have the power to inform Yvon Michel or Rivas about the test results? Did he have the power to intervene when Whyte showed up with some gloves that were never inspected? The whole debacle falls squarely on Eddie Hearn's shoulders!

[j.razor]

Yes, that'sbasically what I was saying but I see the "contaminated supplement" excuse is being manufactured already . . .

Wouldn't you think a guy that's been busted before for a supplement would be ULTRA careful about what he took?!

sounds like contaminated supplements

Right on time ^

[kafkod]

I should know better, but I just can't take the hypocrisy! Imagine if VADA had contacted Finkel, to tell him about Wilder's failed "A" sample, and he decided not to inform Hearn, and Wilder went on to beat Whyte? He would be livid!

Ffs, what planet do you live on?

If Wilder failed a PED test, do you really think VADA would only tell Shelley Finkel about it, then leave up to him to inform everybody else?

VADA report failed tests to the governing commission in charge of the fight, the lead promoter, and I believe they inform both fighters if one fails a test, but I could be wrong about that.

UKAD don't report adverse results to both fighters, and I think they need to change that rule. But UKAD follow their own rules .. not Eddie Hearn's!

[SchoolTheseCats]

There's something weird about this. He's been tested throughout camp and nothing's been found, but he suddenly tests positive for dianobol just before the fight? One of the following two things is true:

- Whyte was taking dianobol throughout camp and the testing isn't reliable enough to catch it the majority of the time
- Something's been contaminated

The point is that you wouldn't start taking dianobol in fight week. There would be no sense in that at all.

You can’t contaminate dainbol that excuse needs to be tossed out

[kafkod]

Something occurred to me while responding to comments here.

Whyte vs Rivas was a WBC sanctioned fight, so surely UKAD and the BBBoC must have informed the WBC when they had a problem with Whyte's test results?

If they didn't, that's something that needs to be looked at, pronto.

[Toffee]

Did he have the power to inform Yvon Michel or Rivas about the test results? Did he have the power to intervene when Whyte showed up with some gloves that were never inspected? The whole debacle falls squarely on Eddie Hearn's shoulders!

What do you think he says in that situation?

Maybe "Dillian has just been cleared to fight by the BBBoC after some issue arising from a UKAD test".

What does Rivas do with that information?

Just personally, I'm going to wait for some confirmed facts. BoxingScene articles may be right, but they're not first hand confirmation.

[kafkod]

Did he have the power to inform Yvon Michel or Rivas about the test results? Did he have the power to intervene when Whyte showed up with some gloves that were never inspected? The whole debacle falls squarely on Eddie Hearn's shoulders!

I'm sure Eddie had the power to tell Rivas, but it wasn't his job to tell him, so he didn't.

Re the gloves - there are 2 sides to every story. Right after the fight, Whyte was complaining about not being able to use the gloves he chose, because they had been given to one of the fighters on the undercard.

You will say he was lying and this was all a dastardly plan by Matchroom to cheat Rivas.

But then .. you would say that, wouldn't you?

[Raggamuffin]

Something occurred to me while responding to comments here.

Whyte vs Rivas was a WBC sanctioned fight, so surely UKAD and the BBBoC must have informed the WBC when they had a problem with Whyte's test results?

If they didn't, that's something that needs to be looked at, pronto.

So is Whyte guilty or not?