{"id":179088,"date":"2025-10-04T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179088\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:45:07","slug":"british-boxing-board-of-control-clears-jaime-munguia-win-over-bruno-surace-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179088\/","title":{"rendered":"British Boxing Board of Control Clears Jaime Mungu\u00eda, Win Over Bruno Surace Stands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaime Mungu\u00eda <\/a>is eyeing a return at the end of 2025 \u2014 after he was cleared by the British Boxing Board of Control following a drug test from his unanimous decision victory over Bruno Surace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 3 <\/a>returned an adverse finding for an exogenous testosterone<\/a>, which is not naturally produced by the body. <\/p>\n

The adverse finding came from a drug test on the day of his rematch vs. Surace. Mungu\u00eda and his lawyer, Paul Greene of Global Sports Advocates, said the adverse finding was a false positive due to multiple supplements that he took on the day of the fight being contaminated with pregnenolone, a naturally occurring hormone that is not prohibited by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency and World Anti-Doping Agency.<\/p>\n

The adverse finding was flagged by VADA, which was conducting the drug testing for the card. After it was flagged, the results were sent to the BBBofC, which was the sanctioning body that oversaw the May 3 card, and the results were then sent to the United Kingdom Anti-Doping. UKAD accepted Mungu\u00eda\u2019s explanation that pregnenolone was the cause of the adverse finding, and as a result, the BBBofC just warned him moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boxer\u2019s explanation was accepted by UKAD and then advised to us,\u201d said Robert Smith, the general secretary of the BBBofC, told The Ring<\/a>. \u201cTherefore, he was warned as to his future conduct. … All the stuff that was supplied was looked at, and his explanation for the charge was accepted by UKAD. … UKAD were not going to take it any further.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, Mungu\u00eda\u2019s victory over Surace will stand. The win avenged one of boxing\u2019s biggest upsets in 2024, as Surace climbed off the canvas to win by sixth-round knockout Dec. 14. Despite splitting their two fights, Mungu\u00eda (45-2, 32 KOs) of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, doesn\u2019t envision a third fight against Surace (26-1-2, 5 KOs) of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne, France, happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Surace is not an option anymore,\u201d Mungu\u00eda told The Ring on Sept. 10 through a translator. \u201cWe did what we had to do. I think that’s a chapter that is closed, and now we are looking for other challenges, for other fighters. We’ll see what can come up this year and have a big fight next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before enrolling in VADA, Greene said that Mungu\u00eda declared some of the supplements he\u2019d be taking ahead of the rematch with Surace. After the adverse finding, Mungu\u00eda sent 74 items to the SMRTL Lab in Utah to be tested, which included supplements, creams, lotions, medicine, foods and hotel shampoos he had used ahead of and on the day of the rematch.<\/p>\n

Of those items, four supplements were contaminated with pregnenolone, while none had evidence that they were contaminated with the exogenous testosterone that returned an adverse finding.<\/p>\n

Greene cited multiple studies, including a 2014 Wang Study, to back his claim that pregnenolone could produce \u201cfalse-negative or false positive results in doping tests,\u201d while one antidoping expert who requested anonymity told The Ring that pregnenolone alone can\u2019t cause an adverse finding in an IRMS test. <\/p>\n

The WBC corroborated both cases, stating that there are scientific publications that Mungu\u00eda\u2019s team provided \u201cthat can be interpreted as supporting his position,\u201d though, they added that the \u201cIngestion of pregnenolone is not considered a valid justification for Mr. Mungu\u00eda\u2019s adverse finding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WBC is treating the adverse finding as a first offense for Mungu\u00eda and placing him on probation for one year retroactive to the date of the adverse finding. He\u2019ll be subjected to additional random drug tests, among other stipulations. <\/p>\n

Mungu\u00eda conducted multiple tests, which included blood, hair and nail tests and a polygraph test at FBI-approved offices, per a WBC newsletter that was sent Sept. 9. <\/p>\n

The WBC later said on its website on Sept. 17 that Mungu\u00eda\u2019s primary defense was \u201che had unintentionally and unknowingly consumed at least four supplements which were contaminated with pregnenolone, and his unknowing ingestion of pregnenolone-contaminated supplements explained the adverse finding.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also stated: \u201cThe WBC Results Management considered Mr. Mungu\u00eda\u2019s defense and could not determine with reasonable certainty the ultimate causal source of the Adverse Finding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mungu\u00eda, 28, said the sanctioning body\u2019s involvement in the aftermath of his adverse finding was due to his ranking by the WBC at super middleweight, though, his rematch vs. Surace wasn\u2019t sanctioned by the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy relationship with the WBC and Mauricio is really great,\u201d Mungu\u00eda said. \u201cThey’ve been really supportive of me. We’ve had a lot of meetings where we showed our scientific evidence. They wanted to make sure that everything was done the right way.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though they didn’t sanction the fight, they needed to see if it was going to be clear or not. So they had a process because I’m enrolled with VADA. … I needed to prove to [the WBC], even though they were supportive, that I was innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mungu\u00eda is ranked No. 3 (WBC), No. 4 (IBF) and ninth (WBO).<\/p>\n

The RIng’s Declan Taylor contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaime Mungu\u00eda is eyeing a return at the end of 2025 \u2014 after he was cleared by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-179088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}