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Cloutier’s Canada Corner
Bute Tests Positive For The B
Test
By Daniel Cloutier
MONTRÉAL - The former IBF super middleweight champion of the
world, the Montrealer Romanian Lucian Bute, tested positive
for the B test imposed by the WBC and the Washington
Athletic Commission.
April 30th in Washington, after his draw against the WBC
super middleweight champion of the world, the Swedish Badou
Jack, Bute has been forced to past a drug test.
He tested positive for the A test, for using a kind of
steroid called astatine, but the GYM Group wanted to wait
the result of the B test, in case that the A test was
incorrect. In California Thursday evening, the GYM Group got
the result of the B test from a laboratory.
Positive again.
Bute (32-3-1) is facing a suspension, but he got to decide
if he will accept the suspension or take his retirement from
boxing.
The WBC championship committee will inform the GYM Group of
his decision in this file.
“I did not take anything illegal intentionally, said Bute. I
said it and I am maintaining it. I took a special vitamin
the day of the fight, and I got to conclude that this
vitamin contained astatine. It was clearly a contamination
case. I will talk to my layer in Los Angeles to see if we
can suit the pharmacy who sold us this vitamin. The
situation is so frustrating. I never took drug in my boxing
career, in the amateurs like in the pros. No doubt in my
mind I am not responsible for this problem.”
If Bute received a long suspension, he will probably
abandoned his boxing career, but he will discuss of the
situation with the GYM Group authorities in the weeks to
come. Bute is 36 years old.
“It’s a disappointing result, but we will see what will
happen in the weeks to come, said the promoter of the GYM
Group, Yvon Michel. We will try everything possible to
convince the WBC that Lucian does not deserve a suspension
in the circumstances. Never before in his boxing career
Lucian has been tested positive for a drug test. I believe
him when he is saying he did not know that the vitamin he
took the day of the fight was containing astatine. I believe
also it was a vitamin contaminated.”
Bute won 10 IBF world championships bouts in a row between
2007 to 2012, but he did not win his last three world
championships fights opposing him to the British Carl Froch
(33-2-0) (TKO in less than five rounds), James De Gale
(23-1-0) (unanimous decision), another British, and Badou
Jack (20-1-2) (majority draw).
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