[scribbs]

Soliman camp pushes for boxing title bout
Adrian Warren, AAP
May 2, 2013, 5:51 pm

Sam Soliman says he is overwhelmed by news his B sample drug test is negative and is now pushing for the IBF to confirm his mandatory challenge to compatriot Daniel Geale's world middleweight boxing title.

On Thursday, Soliman's legal team sent paperwork regarding the testing to the IBF as they sought to confirm his right to challenge Geale.

They also lodged an appeal with the BDB (Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer), who suspended Soliman for nine months and changed the result of his points win over Felix Sturm to a no contest after saying an illegal stimulant had shown up on his A sample in a post-fight test back in February.

The B sample was opened in the United States and did not show traces of any of the drugs the two camps had agreed should be tested for.

"I'm overwhelmed by the support and even more overwhelmed by the news that I pretty much already knew, that my B sample was negative," Soliman told AAP.

Soliman's manager David Stanley said the BDB's ban on Soliman and the change of result would be set aside because of their appeal to that organisation, but anticipated going to a German civil court if that was unsuccessful.

Soliman is currently the No.1 contender for the title held by Geale, who was granted an exception to regulations by the IBF so he could fight Anthony Mundine rather than Soliman in his last fight.

Team Soliman says that exemption included a commitment for the winner of that fight to defend next against Soliman.

"The ball is in the IBF's court," Michael Bates, Soliman's Australian lawyer told AAP.

"We've had this report confirming that the B sample is negative.

"We've put it to the IBF and it will be up to them to say on the back of this report this world title between Sam Soliman and Daniel Geale should proceed.

"If they are not going to say that it will mean that we will need to put this into the hands of an independent umpire, which will have to be a judge."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/sport/16980493/

 

[Roe]

I see that Felix Sturm's team weren't happy at all about this:

Sam Soliman just announced that his B-sample came back clean. To us, this does not make sense at all. He confessed to drinking an energy drink containing the forbidden stimulant found in the A-sample. Again, they made a confession.

We do not know what they tested the B-sample for in the lab they have chosen. We know that the sample was split and one half is still at the NADA/WADA lab in Cologne, Germany. We are sure that this will confirm the result of the A-sample, if they elect to have it opened. From the beginning, Team Soliman insisted that the substance found was not forbidden by the IBF. But it is. Oxilofrine is regarded as a stimulant and all stimulants are banned by the IBF. Furthermore, both the BDB and the NADA/WADA list Oxilofrine on their list of banned substances.

We therefore believe that their part of the B-sample was not even tested for the substance found in the A-sample. Once again, they have confessed to taking said substance. We believe that the ban by the BDB will be upheld and the bout between Soliman and Felix Sturm will remain a "No Contest". We also believe that the IBF will honor the BDB's decision. We are shocked at the way Team Soliman is handling this situation, as we have never seen someone as unfair and unprofessional as they are presenting themselves. This is hurting our sport and should not be accepted.

 

[scribbs]

You beat me to it Roe - Yeah it's strange ain't it

 

[JamieC]

So he refuses to get tested at same place again? Takes sample away to place of his choosing, shockingly this comes back negative and hes allowed to fight?

 

[Roe]

So he refuses to get tested at same place again? Takes sample away to place of his choosing, shockingly this comes back negative and hes allowed to fight?

:-(

 

[JamieC]

:-(

Shocking state of affairs

 

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[Lunny]

So he refuses to get tested at same place again? Takes sample away to place of his choosing, shockingly this comes back negative and hes allowed to fight?

Ahhhhh boxing...