Igår kväll dök det upp en rapport att Dave Herman hade skadat sig, och därför hoppat av matchen mot Mike Russow. Det här stämde bara delvis, men det var inte på grund av en skada som han hoppat av utan på grund av att han testat positivt för marijuana
I’m still trying to (figure out what happened),” säger Herman till Clinch Gear Radio. ”I’ve been making phone calls but they said I failed my drug test. I don’t think (this affects my future with the promotion). I’ve been trying to talk to the Texas commission and everything because I went in to get my drug test and a week later they called me and said they lost my urine specimen and I had to come in and redo it. That was last week. So I went back in that day and today they said I failed. I was like, ’that’s impossible.’ So… yeah.”
Att en kommission tappar bort ett urinprov är förstås rätt märkligt, men det blir märkligare.
So I went in to do it again that day and then today they just got the results, I guess. But then I called, cause I’ve been trying to straighten this out, like how did they lose it but then they found it, like, what happened, I don’t know. But then Texas said that they never lost it and the first one was for drugs and the second one was for steroids. They didn’t say I had it for performance-enhancing drugs, they said I had marijuana. And I don’t even smoke.”
Herman gick senast en match mot Jon Olav Einemo i juni, och det är dopingprovet från den matchen som resultatet börjar dyka upp från nu. Men hela historien låter rätt märklig. Så vi väntar tills idrottskommissionen har gjort alla tester de behöver göra, och så kanske vi äntligen får ett officiellt uttalande från dom.
