{"id":31530,"date":"2025-07-29T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31530\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:14:09","slug":"boxing-francisco-rodriguez-jr-failed-drug-test-in-america-before-positive-test-against-galal-yafai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31530\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Francisco Rodriguez Jr failed drug test in America before positive test against Galal Yafai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francisco Rodriguez Jr failed a drug test in America in December, six months before his fight with Galal Yafai in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, 31, beat Olympic gold medallist Yafai in a points decision in June, with the British boxer suffering his first defeat as a professional.<\/a><\/p>\n

After the fight, Rodriguez tested positive for banned substance heptaminol<\/a> and the Mexican is now under investigation by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) and UK Anti-Doping (Ukad).<\/p>\n

The test was conducted on fight night and administered by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada), as part of the WBC’s Clean Boxing Program.<\/p>\n

But it has now emerged that this is the second time Rodriguez has failed a drug test in six months.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez’s win over Josue Jesus Morales on December 15 in San Antonio was declared a no-contest by the Texas Commission after he failed a post-fight drug test.<\/p>\n

“Francisco Rodriguez failed his drug test on 15\/12\/24 and was put on a 90-day suspension and was assessed a $500 administrative penalty,” the Texas Combative Sports Program said.<\/p>\n

There is no world governing body in boxing and the Texas Commission are not required to inform other commissions of the decision.<\/p>\n

The commission did say Rodriguez’s suspension was recorded on the national data base Boxrec.com as “rules violation” which the British Boxing Board of Control have access to.<\/p>\n

Before Rodriguez’s fight with Yafai, BBC Sport reached out to the Texas Commission to ask why his fight with Morales was registered as a ‘no-contest’ but received no reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Rodriguez Jr failed a drug test in America in December, six months before his fight with Galal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-31530","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\/31530","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=31530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}