Lucas Browne stripped of WBA heavyweight title, suspended (The Associated Press)
The World Boxing Association has stripped Australian Lucas Browne of his heavyweight title and suspended him for six months after his B sample on a doping test also returned a positive finding. Browne became Australia’s first world heavyweight champion when he stopped Ruslan Chagaev of Uzbekistan in a 10th-round technical knockout on March 5 at Grozny in Chechnya, Russia. The WBA said on its website Thursday that the B sample also was positive.