![\"\"](\"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.41429545.jpg\")
Jarrell Miller will not face Anthony Joshua on June 1 after promoter Eddie Hearn reported a second \u201cadverse finding\u201d from a drugs test.<\/p>\nJarrell Miller will not face Anthony Joshua on June 1 after promoter Eddie Hearn reported a second \u201cadverse finding\u201d from a drugs test.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2019s participation for the New York heavyweight bout was already under threat after the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) informed both camps of an adverse finding in a drug-testing sample, leading to him being denied a licence for the date at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
Miller retained the right to request a further sample and to reapply for that licence to challenge Joshua in what will be the champion\u2019s US debut.<\/p>\n
However, Hearn now says he has learned of a second alleged doping violation by Miller, meaning that fight is now dead in the water.<\/p>\n
It was on March 20 when there was an adverse finding for GW1516, a metabolic modulator also known as cardarine and endurobol.<\/p>\n
Hearn had already started the search for alternative opponents from the point of VADA\u2019s first update, and he wrote on social media on Friday: \u201cWe have now received news from VADA that Jarrell Miller has now failed a second separate test for a further substance.<\/p>\n
\u201cAJ\u2019s June 1 opponent will be announced next week. If you don\u2019t think you can beat him clean then delete my number!\u201d<\/p>\n
Hearn\u2019s Matchroom Sport had long planned to build Joshua\u2019s profile in the US boxing market, to the extent that the fight location, which they remain committed to, and Brooklyn\u2019s Miller had been selected specifically to maximize its appeal.<\/p>\n
Responding to the initial adverse finding on Tuesday, Miller had written on Instagram on Thursday: \u201cI have never knowingly taken any banned substance and when I found out the news I was totally shocked.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy team and I stand for integrity, decency and honesty and together we will stand to fight this with everything we have.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a voluntarily test that I was very happy to do and these results came just one week after another voluntarily test that I had taken which was completely clean.\u201d<\/p>\n