Bring on the drug testing: Browne

LUCAS Browne wants mandatory drug testing done in his fight against Paul Gallen, believing the former NRL star will “be on something”.

Gallen called for drug testing for the fight last weekend, given Browne’s previous scandals, but the former WBA world heavyweight champion has hit back given Gallen’s own history in the Cronulla Sharks peptide controversy.

“I’ve got no problem with the testing and I actually encourage it because I think he’s going to be on something,” Browne said.

“I hope the testing happens, I want it to happen.”

Gallen (10-0-1, 5KO) will fight Browne (29-2, 25KO) over six rounds in Wollongong on April 21.

Browne (pictured) won the WBA title by knocking out Ruslan Chagaev in 2016, the only Australian to hold a major heavyweight title.

However, he was stripped of the belt after allegedly testing positive to Clenbuterol. Browne fought the charge and the decision was overturned, so he was reinstated with the belt.

But Browne’s second positive test for a different substance months later is one for which he takes responsibility.

“I was done over hard for the world title,” Browne said. “I was tested three days before in Chechnya and was completely clear, so why would I smuggle Clenbuterol into Russia and Chechnya to take it for a fight that I know I’m going to be tested?

“I paid for the testing myself. I thought ‘I’m going into this country, I want to pay for the testing’, so why would I take something knowing that?

“They cleared me obviously, which was great.

“The second time I got done was just my stupidity. I went to a supplement shop and said ‘Give me the best pre-workout you’ve got’. Obviously it had banned substances in it, so I looked like the biggest idiot on the planet, and I can take that because I did it to myself, it’s no one else’s fault.”