Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller tests positive for banned substance ahead of title fight
By Amy Kaplan
Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller tests positive for a banned substance ahead of title fight with Anthony Joshua.
According to reports from ESPN, heavyweight title challenger, Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller has tested positive for a banned substance ahead of his fight with unified world titleholder Anthony Joshua. Three sources have reportedly confirmed the news to ESPN that the substance, GW1516, was from a random Voluntary Anti-Doping Association-conducted urine test Miller submitted on March 20.
The fight, scheduled for June 1 at New York’s Madison Square Garden, was meant to serve as Joshua’s American debut.
Miller accused Joshua of using PEDs during their press tour saying, “We can see it, you can look at him and say this dude (Joshua) is on steroids. Anybody who comes out of the amateurs at 220-something pounds and a year later he’s 240-something – there’s something wrong with that picture. If they’re training every day and your athlete is training for multiple fights there is no way you’re going to put on twenty-something pounds of muscle in a year without taking some kind of supplements – what I’m trying to say is it’s impossible.”
Joshua denied those claims, chalking the claim up as a compliment.
“That’s a compliment,” Joshua said. “Because, if I was, I would not even be able to fit in this shirt.”
Miller was suspended for nine months in 2014 after testing positive for the methylhexaneamine which he claims was unintentional.
Miller is riding an unbeaten streak that stems back to 2009. The sole flub on his record is a draw against Joey Dawejko in 2013.