Benn fails drug test

Yeah because you stood to make money if you delayed the testing of the B sample you absolute mess of a promotor.

 

I do get the reasons for eubank wanting to fight, regardless of the findings in the VADA test.

He tends to only fight once or at a push, twice a year, so theoretically, he's now down a 6 months possibly even 12 months wages.

Also, in his mind he was still finding a welterweight, not a full fledged middleweight.

I do wonder if eubank was fighting a golovkin or say his bout with George Groves, and if either of those fighters tested positive, would he have had the same way of thinking of fighting on, regardless.....

 

Something which which has been surprising to me in this whole debacle is a big potential mistake which Eddie Hearn is making in his handling of this.

I would have thought his (dubious as it is to some) reputation and that of his family's company Matchroom which he runs would not be worth risking to any degree over Connor Benn, who let's face it will not even be a footnote in boxing history.

I would maybe understand the stance and the risk to the business mid and long term term especially if this was some once in a generation Golovkin or Usyk like talent who was capable of dominating a division for a decade, but this is Connor Benn- a puny little welterweight who got bounced around by a French pastry chef and has never even won a British title, beaten no one of note, and is a million miles away from the top at 147.

As shrewd as Eddie Hearn is I would expect him to realise how limited Connor's shelf life is, and how small the upside actually is, and how limited his ability is at the top level, how woefully inexperienced he is. We're talking about someone who had 6 fights in a shed in Australia and then turned pro as a money spinner off the back of his dad's name.

A fight or two with an ageing Eubank Jnr, then what?

He steps up and get's beaten from pillar to post. A shot at a vacant title, which he can MAYBE win against a weak but well ranked opponent?

That's the fighter Eddie wants to risk his name over? I think he should take a far more cautious approach and distance himself from Connor as this has turned into a huge scandal and the mainstream interest in it has not died down, I think it has accelerated and has turned into a huge mess. There has always been and always will be drug cheats in boxing and in sport in general but this has went beyond the usual boxing bubble and has got people's attention in a way it never did with Dillian Whyte.

From a business point of view even with a stable which is very thin domestically the risk Eddie Hearn is taking just seems bizarre considering how poor Benn and how low the ceiling is for him. The fact that he has had to resort to what is to an extent a gimmick fight at his age shows this too.

 

He is under pressure from Daz to deliver and has no way back to Sky.

 

Just thought he’d get away with it, simple as. He knows how the Whyte test and goodness knows how many others were brushed under the carpet and has convinced himself he’d done nothing wrong - especially as Eubank Jr and Sauerland were still (publicly at least) pushing for the fight to go ahead.

The fact that it’s Benn and his potential ceiling is almost irrelevant in Hearn’s handling of it. He’d have done the same for any of his fighters he saw ‘money’ in.

 

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A few of the boxing gym families were allegedly top tier criminals. The police couldn't touch them but some intelligence reports of police corruption leaked. They were on similar levels to those Adams and Hunt gangs.

 

Every fighter apart from journeymen who accept their paycheque is on something or has taken something in the past.

If you were given even money odds on a random fighter picked out of a hat ever taking a PED or any type of illegal performance enhancement you should take that bet every time.

 

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So we should all forget about the last few days and give Conor Benn a second chance ?

If Eddie Hearn thinks things will calm down, he is wrong.

 

Listening to a couple of Kalle interviews, it wouldn't surprise me if they thought Matchroom would throw a lawsuit at them for pulling out?

 

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Bit strong. No-one was forcing Junior to take the fight. Although the rehydration clause was BS in my opinion.

 

So, they're attempting to throw doubt and shade at how the sample is collected/tested it seems, saying that things have come to light in regards to that.

The only trouble with that process is that it has caught one of his fighters, nothing else.

Apart from Anthony Bellew, I think they'll have a job convincing most people with that route.

 

Kalle seemed genuinely gutted for Eubank.
I know he is getting a lot of stick aswell but think he was stuck between a rock and a hard place

 

"The levels within Conor Benn were fine"

Hearn trying to make out that clomid is the same as a naturally produced hormone like testosterone where you are classed as clean as long as you only have reasonable amounts in your system

If this is the best they can come up after having a whole week to think of something then Benn is screwed. Surely there can't be any way of weaseling their way out of this now?