“We need to wait, maybe he will pay for the steroids. But for me, the rivalry with Zhanibek is something personal. It is much more intense than his history with Erislandy Lara. If I'm asked right now: ‘Hey, Zhanibek has doping problems, are you still ready to fight?’, I would say ‘yes’ without hesitation,” Adames said.
He separately emphasized that the use of banned substances does not make victory automatic: “Steroids do not guarantee 100%. I would enter the ring anyway.”
Recall that at the beginning of December, meldonium, a substance banned by WADA since 2016, was found in Alimkhanuly's doping test. This led to the cancellation of the much-anticipated fight between Zhanibek and 42-year-old Cuban Erislandy Lara.