Eddie Hearn has divulged that Jarell Miller sent him a text message in the wake of Dillian Whyte’s positive drugs test reports last week.
Whyte reportedly tested positive for a banned substance in the days before their bout at the O2. Oscar Rivas lost his unbeaten record at the hands of the British fighter.
The American, himself tested positive for GW1516 (a metabolic modulator is also known as cardarine and endurobol) in a VADA test taken March 20, ahead of his fight with Anthony Joshua.
Hearn told reporters: “
Big Baby Miller text me, ’Oh I see you’re backing Dillian Whyte.’ I’m not ‘backing’ Dillian Whyte, we followed a process, we followed the rules. He was asked to attend a hearing, which he did, and he was cleared at that hearing.
“It wasn’t swept under the carpet, it wasn’t a promoter saying, ‘Let’s try and do this.’ There was a hearing, if you have a problem with that hearing, speak to the national UKAD government agency or whatever. The British Boxing Board of Control approved him to fight, he fought.”