Billy Joe Saunders' battle with Demetrius Andrade is off after he was denied a boxing permit by the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission.

Saunders is currently prone to be stripped of his WBO world middleweight title, which he has held since vanquishing Andy Lee in December 2015.

A willful medications test taken by the 29-year-old restored an "antagonistic logical finding" however his promoter, Frank Warren, said the substance was a "typical decongestant nasal splash".

'In rivalry' tests are viewed as upon the arrival of the battle and Saunders was discovered "not in break of BBBofC or UKAD against doping directions" by the British Boxing Board of Control.

Be that as it may, the Massachusetts Commission denied him a permit to confine the state, or, in other words cost him his title.

A month ago WBO president Paco Valcarcel said Saunders would be stripped of his belt if the battle - booked for October 20 in Boston - did not proceed.

Andrade is relied upon to battle the WBO's No 2 Walter Kautondokwa for the empty title.