The big story coming out of the boxing world this week, was the story that Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller had failed a drug test, ahead of his fight with Anthony Joshua on June 1st, at Madison Square Garden.

Following the news, the New York State Athletic Commission refused to give Miller a licence to fight. This was followed by news that he had failed two more tests. Testing positive for a total of three separate banned substances, Endurabol, HGH and EPO. 

Although the heavyweight boxer insisted his innocence after the first failed test results emerged, he was forced to admit his attempts to cheat, following the further positive test results going public.

As of yet, Joshua has yet to comment on losing his opponent, his promoter Eddie Hearn has hit out at Miller. As he told IFLTV (as transcribed by The Mac Life).

“I’ll be honest with you, it is fucking unbelievable. I mean, the first one. I know Jarrell Miller well. I’ve given him quite a few opportunities. Don’t get me wrong, he’s been worth it all the way, but what he has done to be quite honest with you, is absolutely disgusting

“I always hope, and I always want to give athletes the benefit of the doubt to say, okay, you took something or someone gave you something to take. You didn’t know what you were taking. But you know what the absolute liberty about all of this is? How he, after he failed that test on Monday, text me to say, ‘I swear I have not taken anything. This is sabotage, this is the system against me’. Fuck off.

“It makes me sick. Sick. That someone would go to those lengths in a fight. People have died in the ring. This guy has tried to get such an edge and it’s not just an edge of a little something, this is the whole hog. This is a man that is so possessed to get an edge over Anthony Joshua in a fight that could have — who knows what could have happened. All because the man wasn’t big enough, weren’t brave enough to do it right. To do it as a sport. He had to cheat. He had to cheat the system. You must have been so afraid of this fight. You must have been so afraid of Anthony Joshua that you have to get this edge. I am absolutely disgusted.

“He wasn’t going to admit it. This is the thing that’s eating me up more than anything. This is why it’s in my head so much. Because I’ve believed people who’ve told me that in the past. If he’s prepared to go out there, like what would he have done? He would have fucking swore on The Bible, he’d have sworn on his kids life. Everything. It has to be the worst case of drugs results [in boxing] at this level of all time.”

“I believed him because he signed up for VADA testing. So I knew he knew that he was going to get tested, so I just thought he weren’t that stupid. He wouldn’t do that. But then.. HGH and EPO? Are you fucking serious? And you know they’re coming? So what worries me more is, if people know they’re coming and they’re doing that? What the fuck are they doing when they know they’re not coming?”

A new opponent is currently being looked for to step in and face Joshua on June 1st.

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