{"id":30963,"date":"2025-07-29T04:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:16:13","slug":"francisco-rodriguez-jr-avoids-suspension-must-rematch-galal-yafai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30963\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Rodriguez Jr avoids suspension, must rematch Galal Yafai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran Francisco Rodriguez Jr earned the biggest win of his pro career by demolishing Galal Yafai for the interim WBC flyweight title last month<\/a>, only to test positive for an undefined banned substance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The WBC sent out a statement this past Saturday<\/a> confirming that \u201cChihuas\u201d failed for Heptaminol<\/a>, a vasodilator used to treat hypotension (low blood pressure). This makes it an effective boost to cardio that\u2019s been utilized by swimmers<\/a> and cyclists<\/a> in the past, and considering that Rodriguez (39-6-1, 27 KO) used freakish pressure and volume to tame Yafai, it\u2019s more than a little suspicious.<\/p>\n

The WBC\u2019s report, however, claims that the ingestion was accidental, citing \u201cthe use of an over-the-counter energy booster\u201d that Rodriguez reported taking. Thus, despite overturning the Yafai fight to a No Contest, they\u2019ve limited Rodriguez\u2019s punishment to a 12-month \u201cprobation\u201d period and ordered a rematch.<\/p>\n

I could maybe buy all of that in a vacuum, but we\u2019re not in a vacuum. It\u2019s impossible to argue at this point that the WBC doesn\u2019t play favorites when it comes to PED\u2019s; Luis Nery, Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, Oscar Valdez<\/a>, all enjoyed a bizarre level of credulity from Mauricio Sulaiman when they tested positive. Were I still a betting man, I\u2019d put a tidy sum on Jaime Munguia<\/a> receiving similar leeway.<\/p>\n

It also doesn\u2019t help Rodriguez\u2019s case that, as Eddie Hearn discovered and the Texas commission confirmed<\/a>, his December win over Josue Jesus Morales was likewise overturned due to a doping violation. No word as to whether it was the same substance.<\/p>\n

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) has yet to release its own assessment, which will undoubtedly be far more punitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Francisco Rodriguez Jr earned the biggest win of his pro career by demolishing Galal Yafai for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[23963,4817,703,711,49,48,7667,700,23964,4819,5838,4818,10994,15401,9571,82,946,23965],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-avoids","tag-bad","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-francisco","tag-front-page","tag-galal","tag-hook","tag-jr","tag-left","tag-must","tag-rematch","tag-rodriguez","tag-sports","tag-suspension","tag-yafai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}