{"id":298237,"date":"2025-11-21T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:59:07","slug":"subriel-matias-fails-drug-test-ahead-of-dalton-smith-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298237\/","title":{"rendered":"Subriel Matias fails drug test ahead of Dalton Smith title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mike Coppinger <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/1991629374240748043\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that WBC super lightweight champion Subriel Matias, less than two months away from what would almost certainly be the biggest payday of his career, has failed a drug test for the banned SARM (selective androgen reception modulator) ostarine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matias (23-2, 22 KO) is presently scheduled to face mandatory challenger Dalton Smith on January 10th at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center. He stood to make over a million dollars after Fresh Productions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/109881\/fresh-productions-outbids-matchroom-for-subriel-matias-vs-dalton-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Matchroom at the September purse bid<\/a>, bit that\u2019s now in serious jeopardy. As Coppinger points out, Matias does have the option to request testing on his B-sample, and Fresh has yet to release a statement one way or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Coppinger reports that WBC super lightweight champion Subriel Matias, less than two months away from what would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-298237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}