Benn Tests Positive For Banned Substance. British Boxing Board Of Control Calls Off Eubank Jr Fight.
By: Sean Crose
The Voluntary Anti Doping Association, in any other case often called VADA, has discovered traces of the banned substance clomifene in Conor Benn’s system. According to the Daily Mail (which reportedly broke the story) clomifene “is typically used to treat infertility in women but can increase testosterone in men.” Suffice to say the British Boxing Board of Control have subsequently declared Saturday’s London based mostly combat between Benn and Chris Eubank Jr a no-go. In an announcement, the Board said it has “resolved that the contest between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn scheduled to take place on 8 October 2022 is prohibited as it is not in the best interest of Boxing.”
Yet promoter Eddie Hearn has said the Board doesn’t take VADA exams into consideration when deciding whether or not a combat ought to go down on British soil. “The UKAD testing, which is obviously the testing agency that the British Board of Boxing control use and are governed by, have all been cleared and negative,” Hearn mentioned in an interview with Matchroom, the promotional outlet he’s the pinnacle of. “Conor Benn, he’s not suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control. Ultimately he can’t be because he’s passed all the tests from UKAD, but clearly the British Boxing Board of Control will take a position on it.”
Hearn’s strategy to this growth, nonetheless seems to be in contradiction to an announcement he as soon as made on digicam, an announcement which is now making the rounds on Twitter. “What is the point in signing up for drug testing if when you fail everyone just goes oh don’t worry about it?” Hearn says within the clip. “The argument whether it’s all right with UKAD is totally irrelevant. You’ve signed drug testing with VADA, the best testing agency in my opinion in the sport.” With that being mentioned, VADA employs A exams and B exams for individuals who partake in its course of. Although the A check for Benn indicated a banned substance was in his system, a B check may theoretically clear the person each actually and figuratively.
Still, among the greater names in and across the sport have been fast to level out that B exams not often come out in another way than A exams, if in any respect. Plus, there’s the query of timing: Would a B check truly be out there earlier than the combat was scheduled to go down this weekend at London’s O2 Arena? As issues stand, each fighters are hopeful their scheduled match will nonetheless go down on Saturday as has been deliberate. Others, nonetheless, are staunchly in settlement with the Board’s ruling.
