By Dan Ambrose: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer isn’t cancelling the June 23rd fight card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California after Andre Berto’s positive test results for a banned substance Nandrolone earlier today.

Berto was supposed to be fighting Victor Ortiz in a rematch on June 23rd, but now Schaefer is going to be working to find a replacement just in case Berto isn’t permitted to take the fight.

Schaefer said to Rafael “I want to know what the origins of this are. I have been told that it could have been something to do with food contamination. But I’m not going to cancel the event.”

Good luck to Schaefer trying to find a replacement opponent that Showtime will agree to, because there’s probably not going to be much out there for Ortiz to fight at this short notice. There’s only a month to go before the fight. The positive side of this was that it wasn’t a title fight, meaning that they can pool from any of the sanctioning bodies to try and dig up a decent fighter. But it’s going to be tough to find someone that’s actually any good that will agree to fight a puncher like Ortiz with only a month’s notice.

Golden Boy can try and get one of their fighter Marcos Maidana to take the fight, but given the fact that he lost his last fight when he moved up to welterweight, I can’t see him agreeing to take the fight unless they waive an awful lot of money underneath Maidana’s nose. He simply doesn’t have the size to fight at welterweight, and it would be tough for him to be expected to take another fight at this weight rather than letting him defend his WBA light welterweight title.

Here are some of the fighters that could in theory replace Berto:

Marcos Maidana
Shane Mosley
Devon Alexander
Matthew Hatton
Thomas Dulorme
Erik Morales
Ed Parades
Jan Zaveck

I honestly don’t see Golden Boy getting Alexander, Mosley, Maidana, Dulorme, Morales or Zaveck at this short notice. They can get some of the lesser known contenders, but it won’t exactly wow Showtime or the fans that will be watching the fight as a main event.