The former world featherweight champion of WBA, Mauricio Lara, received a ban on two years of boxing after failing a doping test after the fight, confirmed UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) confirmed on Wednesday.
Lara (26-3-2, 19 kos) was tested positive for the Betamethasone prohibited substance in a sample taken only after its May 27, 2023, a loss of revenge against Leigh Wood in Manchester, in the United Kingdom,
Lara in Mexico had won the championship three months earlier, eliminating wood in the seventh round in Nottingham. Lara weighed three and a half pounds on the featherweight of 126 pounds for her revenge match with wood. This lack of fitness has resulted in the ring, with wood easily exceeds Lara over the distance of 12 laps and finding her belt.
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Lara said that the unfavorable conclusion was due to an injection of Dexamethasone administered on May 12 to treat a shoulder injury Lara had suffered during the fight, but Ukad denied that the injection was a reasonable explanation for the presence of betamethasone in her system.
Ukad said that a more likely explanation for the presence of betamethasone in the Lara system is an injection of 8 mg administered on the day of his fight with Wood.
The ban was rear on March 7, 2024 – when Lara was temporarily suspended. The suspension of boxing and all sports in accordance with WADA will end on March 6, 2026.
Oddly, the process took almost two years to reach a conclusion. In the meantime, Lara was allowed to fight and did it three times in Mexico, winning twice and also fighting with a majority draw.
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