The struggle between junior featherweights Dennis McCann and Peter McGrail will not be happening subsequent week after McCann examined optimistic for a banned substance, in keeping with boxing financier Turki Alalshikh, who posted the information on social media.
“The Voluntary Anti-Doping Affiliation (VADA) has immediately knowledgeable all related events that Dennis McCann has returned an antagonistic discovering following an anti-doping check performed prematurely of his upcoming bout,” Alalshikh posted on his X account on Friday. “Mr. McCann’s scheduled struggle subsequent Saturday will not happen, because the related events examine the matter additional. No additional touch upon this will probably be made right now.”
It has not but been stated what substance(s) confirmed up in McCann’s drug check or whether or not McGrail will nonetheless seem on the December 21 undercard of the Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
McCann, a 23-year-old from Maidstone, England, is 16-0-1 (8 KOs) and coming off determination wins this 12 months over the 11-0 Brad Strand and the 16-4-1 Ionut Baluta. McCann was working his manner up the rankings at 122 and is at present rated thirteenth by the IBF, eleventh by the WBC and third by the WBO.
McGrail, a 28-year-old from Liverpool, is 10-1 (6 KOs). He has received two straight since struggling a fifth-round knockout in opposition to Ja’Rico O’Quinn a 12 months in the past. He’s rated tenth by the WBA.
