Lee trainer demands Chavez drugs check

Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward has demanded that boxing chiefs tackle the growing use of performance enhancing drugs in the sports.

Steward’s comments come in the wake of the defeat of his fighter, Andy Lee, to champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in a WBC world title challenge bout at the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas.

Limerick man Lee’s camp yesterday called on Texas state athletic commissioner Dick Cole to clarify if Chavez provided a mandatory urine sample on Saturday and, if so, issue the findings of that test.