Saturday’s fight between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn is on the verge of collapse
FOLLOW from news that Conor Benn failed a performance-enhancing drug test (for clomifene) ahead of Saturday’s fight (October 8) against Chris Eubank Jnr, the current British Boxing Supervisors. launched and described the war as “forbidden”.
At two o’clock this afternoon, they released this statement: “On the evening of the 4thorder In October 2022, the British Boxing Supervisory Board decided that the competition between Chris Eubank Jnr and Conor Benn was scheduled to take place on the 8th.order October 2022 is banned because it is not beneficial for Boxing. It was communicated to the relevant Fighters and Promoters on the morning of the 5thorder October 2022.”
Earlier this afternoon, Matchroom Boxing, cheerleaders for the match between Eubank Jnr and Benn, reacted with A breaking news story written by Riath Al-Samarrai of Daily mail by issuing the following statement:
“We are told that a randomized anti-doping trial of Conor Benn conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association returned an adverse analysis of trace amounts of an fertility drug. Model B has yet to be tested, which means no rule violations have been confirmed. Indeed, Mr. Benn has not been charged with any rule violations, he has not been suspended and he is still free to fight.
“Mr Benn has since passed a doping control test conducted by the UK Anti-Doping Authority, the anti-doping body to which the British Boxing Board has authorized doping control tests for the bout. . Mr Benn has passed all doping control tests carried out by UKAD.
“Both fighters have received medical and legal advice, know all relevant information and wish to continue the fight this Saturday.”
