Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn cancelled: Common sense prevails in dark week for British boxing

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“Both fighters have taken medical and legal advice, are aware of all relevant information, and wish to proceed with the bout this Saturday.”
You’ve got IV fluid infusion after weigh-ins, you’ve got diuretics, you’ve got growth hormones, you’ve got testosterone replacements.
It is quite something – Larry Olubamiwo was 10 when he first knew he was going to use performance-enhancing drugs.
He was planning to jump up 10lb to meet his rival at a catchweight of 157lb but the fight was called off, meaning both men missed out on huge paydays.
What is true is that what fighters put themselves through mentally and physically in the process of preparing for a fight, never mind during the fight itself, is epic in its intensity and hardship.
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For decades, these methods were allowed, or tacitly accepted, before doping controls began to be introduced in the 1960s. This meant ways of evading the testers became increasingly creative, ending with the blood bag swapping of the 2000s, and modern micro-dosing. The next year Aucouturier came back with a plan to trick his way to an easier time, which involved a cork, a length of string, and a car. The Frenchman held a cork between his teeth and was pulled along by a car; the ruse sounds effective if slightly dangerous – riders crash into the back of cars by their own volition, let alone being attached to them.

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Chris Eubank Jr’s huge clash against Conor Benn has now been postponed following the latter’s positive drugs test. Five months ago Tete brutally knocked ‘The Iceman’ out cold in their fight for the Commonwealth, IBF International and WBO International farmasiga belts, ending his hopes of a world title shot in the process. “I passed all my UKAD tests, which people aren’t talking about. I’ve passed all my tests in and out of camp. I’ve been a professional for seven years and never failed a test.”

Clomifene is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and the doping test on Benn was carried out by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA), an organization that offers anti-doping testing in boxing and mixed martial arts. Co-promoters Matchroom Boxing and Wasserman Boxing were determined to keep the fight on, and the pair sought avenues on Wednesday to get the bout sanctioned, per sources, but it did not come to fruition. “However, whilst there are legal routes to facilitate the fight taking place as planned, we do not believe that it is in the fighters’ interests for those to be pursued at such a late stage, or in the wider interests of the sport. To be in with a chance of winning those Nike vouchers, all you have to do is enter via the form below and correctly guess who will win the Golden Boot to enter our prize draw.

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‘When I lost that fight it took me two months to make peace with it,’ he adds. ‘The magnitude of the fight, the embarrassment of losing – it hurt me because I have dreams too. “As promoters, we take our obligations and duties very seriously, and a full investigation will now need to take place. We will be making no further comment at this time and news for ticket holder refunds will follow.”

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It was an adverse finding, one notifying those involved on September 23 yet 12 days after that news, DAZN’s first UK PPV event was already midway through fight week activities with no hitch. The board said its decision not to sanction the fight was communicated to the boxers and promoters early on Wednesday. And although both fighters reportedly want the fight to go ahead, former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping has stated why he doesn’t think it should. Benn is said to have given a B sample which has yet to be tested, with his promoters and Benn himself stating that he has done nothing wrong and called himself ‘clean’.

Benn also remains embroiled in a legal dispute with the British Boxing Board of Control and relinquished his British license earlier this week after what he believes to be harsh treatment. Around the 55-minute mark, he begins to discuss PED usage in sports and specifically boxing. Returning to my own experience, I broke my neck in a car accident in northern Mexico back in 1992, sustaining a C1-C2 neck fracture. I was 25 at the time and fortunately had a large neck due to my bodybuilding training, which helped cushion the impact to the point of ensuring that I didn’t suffer any spinal damage, else I would be a quadriplegic right now.

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The list of world champion boxers known to have failed a drugs test in the past 25 or so years is both alarming and informative, irrespective of whether they were sanctioned, exonerated, let off lightly, or even mitigated as the consequence of eating an uncastrated wild boar. He is getting animated, just as he has so often when thinking about the astonishing news revealed in these pages on October 5, which is that Benn failed a drugs test in September. Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank twice met for world titles in 1990 and 1993, in two of the biggest fights of the decade in British boxing. Dr Sajjad, who worked with Benn after the comments were made, claimed the majority of boxers are doping – and added only an “idiot” could fail a drug test in this country.

Fans should have been talking about a historic moment for the sport last night, instead boxing’s name has been dragged ‘through the mud’ once again after Conor Benn was found to have traces of a banned substance in his system in the lead up to the Chris Eubank Jr fight. On Wednesday, it was revealed Benn had failed a test conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association. The 26-year-old then passed a separate test undertaken by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), with promoter Eddie Hearn insisting “Mr Benn has not been charged with any rule violation, he is not suspended, and he remains free to fight”. Saturday’s 157-pound fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. has been called off after Benn tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug clomifene, it was announced on Thursday.

After a thorough investigation that looked into both of Whyte’s samples, UKAD determined that the boxer was not at fault for the ‘very low amounts of metabolites’ in his sample, and cleared him of any wrongdoing. They concluded the positive test was ‘consistent with an isolated contamination event’. Yet it should not be overlooked that Warren’s star boxer is Tyson Fury and Shalom works with Hughie Fury. ‘Last week Eddie was getting it from all angles, and if it was Frank or Ben they would have got it from Eddie,’ says Crolla.