{"id":621083,"date":"2026-04-21T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:10","slug":"lawrence-okolies-vada-test-shows-an-adverse-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621083\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Okolie&#8217;s VADA Test Shows An Adverse Finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/tag\/lawrence-okolie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Okolie\u2019s<\/a> VADA test showed an adverse finding ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/tag\/tony-yoka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Yoka<\/a> fight on Saturday, as the bout could be in doubt. <\/p>\n<p>Okolie currently occupies the WBO\u2019s #1 contender spot, meaning a win solidifies his claim to facing unified heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>. Moving to heavyweight has suited \u201cThe Sauce,\u201d who has secured three consecutive victories since the jump. His most recent outing in December 2025 saw him beat Ebenezer Tetteh via an early stoppage. After a devastating three-fight losing skid, Yoka successfully reset his career with a first-round knockout of Patrick Korte.\u00a0However, an adverse finding means the fight might not go ahead as fans wait for an update. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queensberry\/status\/2046499211072491669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View tweet<\/a><br \/>\nOkolie Responds<\/p>\n<p>This is a massive setback given Okolie has expressed his confidence ahead of this fight. However, the boxer has vowed to prove his innocence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore anyone starts imagining the worst, following my bicep injury last year, I sustained an elbow injury on the same arm during this camp. I had a treatment on it and now we are here. I truly hope sense prevails. I will of course be fully cooperating with all relevant authorities and I\u2019m confident any investigation will clear my name. I won\u2019t be making any further comment at this time. Thank you for all your support and see you soon,\u201d Okolie <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/lawrence-okolie-fails-drugs-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Card<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Okolie vs <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/tony-yoka\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Yoka<\/a> \u2013 Heavyweight<\/p>\n<p>Bakary Samake vs Ermal Hadribeaj \u2013 Super welterweight<\/p>\n<p>Khalil El Hadri vs Liborio Solis \u2013 Super bantamweight<\/p>\n<p>Adam Olaniyan vs Andre Youmbi Oyen \u2013 Heavyweight<\/p>\n<p>Luis Vela vs Yeison Juarez \u2013 Super lightweight<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Marguerite vs Jeremy Alvarez \u2013 Super welterweight<\/p>\n<p>Mourad Aliev vs Jhan Carlo Delgado \u2013 Heavyweight<\/p>\n<p>Find all the\u00a0latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/admin.boxingnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boxing news<\/a>\u00a0and MMA breaking updates on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxingblitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">boxingnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavyweight Lawrence Okolie\u2019s VADA test showed an adverse finding ahead of his Tony Yoka fight on Saturday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-621083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621083","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=621083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}