By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Jose Suliaman is dismissing reports about former WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KOs) testing positive for a banned substance clenbuterol in a test by the USADA. Morales is facing WBA/WCB light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) in a rematch on Saturday night at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York.

Sulaiman said this about it as quoted by Fightnews.com: “These rumors are false…The WBC rules stipulate that a drug test should only be performed in the locker room before or after the fight. That’s all I accept…Only the Boxing Commission and WBC have the authority to reveal a positive test.”

None of this really matters because the Morales-Garcia fight will go ahead regardless because the second sample for Morales’s drug test won’t be available until after the fight on Saturday night and by the it’ll be too late, the fight will have already taken place.

Clenbuterol reportedly is used by some fighters to reduce weight during training camp.

Morales failed to make weight the last time he fought Garcia last March, but the fight still went ahead but he lost his WBC strap on the scales. Morales looked really heavy when he started training camp for the Garcia rematch. Angel Garcia, the father of Danny Garcia, estimated that Morales was weighing in the neighborhood of 180 pounds. If this were true, Morales would have to take off 40 pounds of weight during training camp, making his camp somewhat of a fat farm rather than a training camp to sharpen him up.

Few boxing fans are giving Morales any chance of winning this fight on Saturday night against Garcia, because of how one-sided their previous fight was. It’s not that Morales is a shot fighter, but rather he seems to be fighting out of his weight class. He was best at bantamweight and super bantamweight, and now he’s fighting bigger guys at light welterweight. Garcia is more of a junior middleweight than a light welterweight, and that makes it doubly tough.