BOXING officials and referees will be DRUG TESTED in a bid to clean up the sport.

The noble art has been hit with scandal in the last few months with heavyweight Jarrell Miller seeing his big world title fight against Anthony Joshua scrapped after he failed a drugs test.

1 Californian Steve Morrow and Michigan's Frank Garza presented their clean samples with a WBC official Credit: WBC

And in 2018 the big story was Canelo failing two drugs test and receiving a six month ban.

The Mexican insisted the positive sample came from contaminated meat in his homeland.

But the World Boxing Council, whose heavyweight champ is Deontay Wilder, will now drug test officials as part of their Clean Boxing Program testing.

It will check for recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines.

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The WBC have stated that they decided to bring in testing in the aim of maintaining maximum integrity around the sport.

The first two boxing judges that have carried out tests, Californian Steve Morrow and Michigan's Frank Garza presented their clean samples at the WBC’s headquarters in Mexico.

The WBC have promised that they will be working with all the national and state federations to continue the random drug tests on officials in boxing.