Hearn told the 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I do believe in contamination but what I want more than anything is for it to be dealt with swiftly.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully Dalton Smith will get the opportunity. Put Matias in recess and give him his due process.”<\/p>\n
Matias and his team are yet to publicly comment on reports he tested positive for ostarine, but the WBC said a formal investigation has been launched and he is fully co-operating.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old has until 1 December to request for a B sample to be tested.<\/p>\n
Matias beat Alberto Puello to win the belt via majority decision in July.<\/p>\n
Puello’s team asked the WBC for an immediate rematch but the sanctioning body rejected those appeals and said Matias had to defend against mandatory challenger Dalton.<\/p>\n
“The WBC said the winner of Dalton v Matias would fight Puello, so you’d think it will be Dalton against [Puello] for the vacant title and Matias can fight the winner if he comes back cleared,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bit of a mess but we want to make sure Dalton gets his opportunity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn hopes Dalton Smith will fight for a world title after the Briton’s bout with WBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-275977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275977","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=275977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}