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Lucas Browne, who earlier this month tested positive to having Clenbuterol in his system, has professed that he was a clean athlete and he didn’t knowingly put any illicit substances into his body.
Browne won the WBA Regular Heavyweight Championship against Ruslan Chagaev, but has since been found to have Clenbuterol in his post-fight urine test.
In a statement released by Browne on Wednesday, he revealed he was drug tested by the voluntary anti-doping association (VADA) on February the 29th, shortly after he landed in Chechnya. This test has since come back as a negative, showing Browne was indeed clean when he arrived in Chechnya.
Browne says that he only ate at the hotel where he was staying and a meal following the boxers weight in. He also only drank sealed, bottled water the night before the fight.
It was Browne and his team themselves who’s team requested that the VADA be on hand to do drug testing, and that he has absolutely no issues with them doing so before or after the fight. Browne has said he has no reason to believe the B-sample will be any different to the A-sample, opening questions as to whether he will wait for the results of that to come through.
Browne and his team will now focus their investigations on the period between the clean test before the fight, which was blood and urine to the period following the fight which was urine only.
The fight itself was shrouded in controversy. With a raucous home crowd behind him, Chagaev was seemingly given every advantage in and outside of the rule book. In the sixth round, with Chagaev dominating the bell would be rung 15 seconds late, and he was able to put in a few extra blows after the bell was rang.
The same timekeeper then made a blunder the other way in the seventh round, when Browne was dominating. The bell rung a ridiculous 40 seconds early that round, with TV commentators saying so and questioning it in the aftermath.
Full statement from Browne:
@bigdaddybrowne1 statement, confirming he was tested by VADA when arriving in Chechnya and was clean #boxing pic.twitter.com/bIS7l1fYQO
— Ben Damon (@ben_damon) March 30, 2016
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