‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’

LAST year was a particularly trying one for Dillian Whyte. After defeating the previously unbeaten Oscar Rivas in July, a dark cloud soon cast a gloomy shadow over this triumph. Just four days following the victory, a report surfaced stating that the Brixton heavyweight had failed a UKAD (UK Anti-Doping) test in the lead-up to the bout. It emerged that, at a hearing on the day of the fight, an independent panel had cleared Whyte to take part in the contest, though Rivas and his team had no knowledge of either the hearing or the failed test.

After, in his own words, “walking around like a zombie” for over four months, Whyte received the news he had been hoping for in early December. UKAD released a statement declaring that they had withdrawn their charge and cleared the Jamaica-born Londoner of any wrongdoing. They announced that the “trace amounts” of steroid metabolites contained in Whyte’s sample were “consistent with an isolated contamination event” and were “not suggestive of doping.”

While this investigation had been in progress, the long-time