WBO welterweight world champion Devin Haney has once again spoken out against performance enhancing drugs, demanding that a fellow American should be banned from boxing after yet another failed drugs test.
Back in February 2017, Cletus Seldin returned an adverse finding during an out-of-competition VADA test, where his testosterone levels were notably elevated, receiving a six-month ban from WBC-sanctioned contests as a result.
However, Seldin was permitted to compete in a bout that was not sanctioned by the WBC just four months later, only for that fight and the entire show to be cancelled after ‘The Hebrew Hammer’ was found to have increased levels of testosterone in his system for a second occasion.
Two years later, Seldin knocked out two-division world champion Zab Judah to get his hands on the NABF super-lightweight title, where Judah suffered a brain bleed in the process and was consequently forced to retire.
During the aftermath, Judah demanded that Seldin was tested for drugs and requested to see the results for himself, refusing to believe that Seldin’s talent was natural in an interview with Boxing News.
“This guy [Seldin] made himself Superman,”
“He felt very strong and way faster than I expected. He was throwing shots, these little punches, and wouldn’t stop. He’d go pit-pit-pit-pit-BOOM. Pit-pit-pit-pit-BOOM-BOOM. He was throwing like 17-punch combinations.
“I was just thinking, Who the f**k throws this kind of s**t? Who keeps punching like this? It was crazy. I fought one of the best fighters of all time in Floyd Mayweather and he couldn’t hit me like that. How is this guy, who is not even ranked in the top f**king 25, able to do this?”
Now, over six years later, Judah’s theories have been strengthened, after 39-year-old Seldin tested positive for excessive testosterone yet again, this time ahead of a scrap with Cuba’s Kevin Hayler Brown. On X, Devin Haney ordered Seldin to be ‘banned from boxing’.
“Ban him from boxing.”
Brown was instead tasked with Amos Cowart on Saturday night and won every round on all three scorecards to claim the WBA Inter-Continental Super-Lightweight title via unanimous-decision.
Haney knows what it is like to face a fighter who has failed a drugs test, following his saga with Ryan Garcia in 2024. Garcia initially defeated Haney by majority decision, before the result was changed to a no contest after ‘King Ry’ tested positive for a banned substance.
