With Conor Benn having disappeared from view (and with plenty of people having grown tired of waiting for the results from the fighter’s B sample; promoter Kalle Sauerland stating back in October how it is “down to Conor Benn to request his B sample is examined”), WBC boss Mauricio Sulaiman has said his organisation will release their “final ruling” on the case before the end of the year.
The Conor Benn saga continues. Benn, whose positive test for a banned women’s fertility drug shocked and rocked the boxing world earlier this month, the heavily-hyped Benn-Chris Eubank Jr fight collapsing as a result, is still claiming his innocence – this despite the fact that it has now been confirmed how Benn tested positive for clomiphene twice, once in July and once in September.
Popular British welterweight Conor Benn is being investigated over claims of him testing positive for clomifene in a drug test earlier this year.
Chris Algieri says he’d heard things about Conor Benn before fighting him last December. He says there was no proof that Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) was using performance-enhancing drugs when he was knocked out in the fourth round by him.
Tonight, as any fight fan who has not been living under a rock for the past month is aware, would have seen the heavily hyped “Next Generation” fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn go ahead.
Sergio Mora wants Conor Benn to admit that he knowingly used PEDs to cheat for his previously scheduled fight against Chris Eubank Jr this Saturday.
Dave Coldwell says he doesn’t see point of why the Chris Eubank Jr vs. Conor Benn fight had VADA testing if they and the British Boxing Board of Control were just going to ignore the results.
News has broken informing us that this Saturday’s huge Chris Eubank Jr Vs. Conor Benn fight is officially OFF. Fans heard yesterday how Benn tested positive for an illegal substance, his VADA, A-sample coming back with traces of a female fertility drug; this a substance that if taken by a man can boost testosterone levels.
Paulie Malignaggi says the drug that Conor Benn tested positive for isn’t one that you can accidentally take. Malignaggi feels that the fight between Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) and Chris Eubank Jr should be called off for Saturday night because it’s too risky.
Chris Eubank Jr is disappointed by Conor Benn’s positive test for the banned substance clomifene because it “muddies the story” of their fight this Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London.