{"id":17696,"date":"2025-07-29T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-francisco-rodriguez-jr-failed-drug-test-in-america-before-positive-test-against-galal-yafai\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:05:14","slug":"boxing-francisco-rodriguez-jr-failed-drug-test-in-america-before-positive-test-against-galal-yafai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-francisco-rodriguez-jr-failed-drug-test-in-america-before-positive-test-against-galal-yafai\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Francisco Rodriguez Jr failed drug test in America before positive test against Galal Yafai"},"content":{"rendered":"


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


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