Olubamiwo gets drug ban overturned

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Drug cheat Larry Olubamiwo has been warned he will be top of every heavyweight’s hit list after being handed back his boxing license.

Boxing bosses yesterday lifted the four-year ban imposed on the London muscle man for drugs offences.

Olubamiwo is back in the ring at the York Hall on Saturday, June 29 – just 12 months after he was banned.Olubamiwo admitted taking 13 banned substances and former opponent Paul Butlin last night branded the decision to overturn his suspension “a joke.”

Butlin stepped in at just 24 hours’ notice to fight Olubamiwo in December, 2010 and was controversially stopped in eight rounds.

Butlin, previously bitten by bad boy Dereck Chisora, said: “Larry should be banned for life. It’s a joke.

“How can they let him box again after he’s admitted taking all those banned substances ? It makes a mockery of boxing.

“We might as well all take drugs if there’s going to be no punishment.“I think a lot of heavyweights will want to fight him now.

They will all want to knock him out for being a cheat and I think the crowd will want to see it happen as well.

Olubamiwo was reprieved after he helped identify other drugs cheats and Butlin, currently preparing to box unbeaten Scotsman Gary Cornish for the vacant International Masters heavyweight title in Inverness on Friday, July 5, blasted: “I really can’t believe it.

The Board are saying it’s OK to take drugs if you grass up other people who are taking drugs.”

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