Bermaine Stiverne fails drug test ahead of Povetkin clash.

Former WBC world heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne has failed a drug test, but still looks set to face Alexander Povetkin in a WBC interim Championship fight on December 17 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Last Friday, 11th November, VADA made Stiverne aware that the test taken from his November 4 sample as part the WBCs Clean Boxing Program, had revealed traces of the banned substance Methylhexaneamine, a drug that is better known as Dimethyamylamine..
DMAA as it is commonly known, is widely available as a sports nutritional supplement and is a commonly used as an ingredient in a wide variety of nutritional products. DMAA was temporarily removed from military supply stores across the US, due to its link to reports of serious, life-threatening side effects, a move that looks to have alerted the World Anti-Doping Agency to follow suit, adding DMAA to its prohibited substances list 6 years ago. On the findings of Stiverne’s positive test result, the WBC immediately started an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the adverse finding and a further look into the history and properties of DMAA. The WBC considers those steps necessary to achieve a ruling consistent with their current rules and regulations in accordance to the CPB Protocol.
Stiverne has been open and cooperative since hearing of the results, and even informed the WBC that on the day of the test in question, in order to facilitate urination, he took a supplement by the name of SUPERPHARM in front of the sample collector. He reported the ingestion of that supplement in the Declaration of Medication Use section of the doping form he filled out in accordance to the testing.
Stiverne also reported that he ingested the supplement twice the same day and that he took it because the nutrition staff at EOS Gym in Henderson had recommended it to him. Stiverne was looking for a dietary aid that would help him with post-work out fatigue. Stiverne is fully aware of the enormity of his error, taking an off-the-shelf supplement without doing detailed research into its ingredients. Stiverne understands  he is solely responsible for anything that he ingests..  In hindsight, the former champion realizes his naivety in following a recommendation of an off-the-shelf supplement he was unfamiliar with. The WBC did say that there was no evidence that Stiverne intentionally took the substance with the purpose of enhancing his performance in any fashion..
The bout will go ahead as scheduled.
The WBC shall work with Stiverne to design a program consisting of 40 hours of community or social work in the area of doping prevention education to young athletes, Bermaine will also pay a fine of $75,000 to the WBC..