BERNARD HOPKINS has been accused of rubbing testosterone cream on Gervonta Davis in an alleged effort to taint the fighter’s drug sample ahead of his win over Ryan Garcia.
Davis went on to win the fight with a brutal body shot in the seventh-round.
That was after Garcia, 24, had a tense face-off with his rival and became embroiled in a shoving match.
Golden Boy Promotions executive and boxing legend Hopkins, who promotes Garcia, stood on the periphery of that melee and then appeared to rub his hand across Davis’s back at one point.
And the Baltimore native and his camp have now revealed they were infuriated by it.
The 28-year-old wrote in a now deleted tweet: “I should’ve slapped the s*** outta B-Hop as soon as he touched me.”
Davis’ trainer Calvin Ford then promoted a theory on social media that he believed Hopkins was rubbing testosterone cream on his star’s back in order to taint a drug test.
A text message shared by Ford on instagram read: “Coach beware of B hop and testosterone cream.
“[It] will make you test dirty. Be careful.”
Ford then added his own caption: “See this is why Bernard touch him.”
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Golden Boy have been contacted by Sun Sport for comment on the allegations.
Continuing his rant about Hopkins on Friday, Davis said: “[Hopkins is] talking about he about that life, man, nobody’s worried about his old ass, he needs to sit back and let the youngins do it.”
Meanwhile, DAZN were forced to apologise after huge issues with the Davis and Garcia fight.
Hundreds of TV viewers flocked to social media to complain about purchasing the PPV clash.
Fans had paid $84.99 all together to watch the huge bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
But boxing supporters suffered delays to their streams and accessing the broadcast.
That forced DAZN to take to Twitter – but fans were left fuming with issues even after the first bell.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
