{"id":453924,"date":"2023-08-05T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453924"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:35:33","slug":"joshua-whyte-fight-cancelled-for-controversial-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joshua-whyte-fight-cancelled-for-controversial-drug-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua-Whyte fight cancelled for controversial drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, scheduled for August 12 has been cancelled after the later returned &#8220;adverse analytical findings&#8221; in a drug test, carried out by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association(VADA).<\/p>\n<p>The Association released a statement, which said as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) informed Matchroom, the Association of Boxing Commissions and the British Boxing Board of Control that Dillian Whyte had returned adverse analytical findings as part of a random anti-doping protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of this news, the fight will be cancelled, and a full investigation will be conducted. Further information on the event will follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Next weeks fight cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>Whyte failed his anti-doping test. <\/p>\n<p>I was really looking forward to seeing AJ back in action. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BOXINGnBBQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BOXINGnBBQ<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Boxing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Boxing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoshuaWhyte?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JoshuaWhyte<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wd8H4g4SOI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wd8H4g4SOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BOXING n BBQ (@BOXINGnBBQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BOXINGnBBQ\/status\/1687835320551673856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reports are suggesting that Matchroom Boxing are currently seeking a new opponent for Joshua, so that the fight on August 12 does take place.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Whyte has failed a drug test as back in 2012 and 2019 he was also discovered to use prohibited substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, scheduled for August 12 has been cancelled after the later returned &#8220;adverse analytical findings&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":453925,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18480,20785],"acf":{"announce":"Whyte has returned \"adverse analytical findings\" in VADA drug test","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453924"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453924"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}