TYSON FURY and Dillian Whyte will undergo additional drug testing ahead of their eagerly-anticipated domestic dust-up.
Multiple sources have told SunSport the former sparring partners have both agreed to be tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency.
Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will clash in a long-awaited grudge match next month
The pair’s showdown has been years in the making
And the pair have opted to undergo additional drug testing for their grudge match
VADA testing is entirely funded by fighters or their promoters – unlike the tests administered by the United Kingdom’s anti-doping agency UKAD.
As a result of their signing up to the programme, both men will be subjected to random tests until their April 23 showdown.
Both Fury and Whyte have fallen afoul of anti-doping regulations in their respective careers.
Defending WBC champ Fury tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid Nandrolone following an in-competition test for his 2015 showdown with Christian Hammer.
The Gypsy King – who denied intentionally taking the PED and blamed the positive test on eating uncastrated boar – was handed a backdated two-year ban in 2017.
Whyte, meanwhile, has failed two drug tests in his career – the first of which came in 2012 after he took the now discontinued pre-workout supplement Jack3d in the build-up to his fight with Sandor Balogh.
The Brixton Body Snatcher received a two-year suspension after testing positive for the banned stimulant Methylhexaneamine.
And in June 2019, it emerged that Whyte tested positive for two metabolites of the banned anabolic steroid Dianabol ahead of his decision victory over Oscar Rivas at the O2 Arena.
Whyte was stripped of the interim WBC title as a result of the positive test, although UKAD cleared him of intentionally ingesting the prohibited agent after he provided proof he’d ingested a tainted supplement.
Fury and Whyte’s Battle of Britain has been in the making since their days being each other’s sparring partners.
And fan favourite Fury plans to bring the curtain down on his career after their Wembley war, saying: “This is the final fight of my career, I’m retiring after this.
“$150million in the bank, healthy, young, I’m going to buy a massive yacht abroad. I’m retiring, I’m out, this is my final fight, I’m done.”
Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte know one another very well
He added: “After four years away I get to come back on the world’s biggest stage at Wembley Stadium.
“I am putting on for those who travelled out to Las Vegas and the fans who stayed up until 5am to watch on BT Sport.
“Now they can come and watch on home soil and be a part of history. People will be talking about this event, saying ‘where were you when this happened on that night of 23 April 2022?’ in years to come.
“When Tyson Fury smashed this fella to pieces in front of home fans in the UK.
“There hasn’t been a bigger fight since Lewis-Bruno, an all-British showdown for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world.
“It will be a fantastic event and I know Dillian Whyte is going to come in prepared. He will be rugged, rough, game and aggressive.”
