As revealed in a social media post<\/a>, Sulaiman confirmed that an investigation is now underway to determine exactly how the substance entered the Puerto Rican\u2019s system.<\/p>\n\u201cThe WBC has received confirmation from VADA about an adverse finding from a test performed by WBC Superlightweight champion Subriel Matias.<\/p>\n
The WBC has begun the investigation process as per the Clean Boxing Program protocol.<\/p>\n
I have spoken to our champion Subriel and his Promoter Mr Orengo, and they have expressed their absolute availability and cooperation as the process unfolds.<\/p>\n
The WBC will not make any further comments at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whilst the situation surrounding Matias\u2019 status as champion remains unclear, it has been suggested that the 33-year-old could be stripped in the coming weeks, meaning Smith could be called to fight for the vacant title instead.<\/p>\n
It could lead to Smith going up against Alberto Puello, who is the next highest rated contender with the WBC and lost a majority decision verdict to Matias back in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman has announced that a hard-hitting world champion has failed a voluntary doping test ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-281572","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\/281572","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=281572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}