Benn fails drug test

342 pages? I'm impressed this forum is still going. That being said Connor Benn is a joke and has no business in the ring until this is all sorted.

 

Another pop on a matchroom show...

The cyncic thinks they've let loads slide for years and now they need to go on the PR Front foot, "look how noble we are" they've started announcing them.

Seems they've had lots to show how much they are doing for drugs testing right at the point they needed it?

 

They only announce when the B side fighter fails the test.

Baumgardner popped the other week and we found out via media leak but they couldn’t report Whyte, Cusumano, Helenius etc quick enough.

 

Not a valid point because it was supposed to be kept confidential. By Smith telling his partner Emily Eubank he’d be in serious breach of contract. Fair play to him for putting his work first.

 

So what you are saying is, Frank Smith is gay.

 

I think this is the unfortunate truth of boxing. Drug testing at highest level in boxing looks more and more like just another weapon used by promoters/networks/sanctioning bodies to enforce their will.

And it's not just Matchroom. Take a look at the PBC/WBC. Was it just a coincidence that three of Wilder's most dangerous challengers failed drugs tests derailing their originally planned title shot? Povetkin, Ortiz, Whyte. Or how about when DAZN is about to break into America, and Miller pops undermining the sold-out event (lots of powerful interests in the US will have been extremely happy when that happened). Similarly, Benn's failed test derailing this fight always looked suspiciously political to me (whether guilty or not).

Boxing is so corrupt, none of the above would surprise me.

 

The danger with management companies ordering and paying for their own tests is, the results are likely to be reported back to the management company themselves because they were the ones who paid the testing. It could be argued then that that gives them the power to do what they like with the results.

 

Work should never come before family.

 

That last sentence is unreal.

Although does sort of confirm that Smith should have had no involvement at all in this fight due to the massive conflict of interest.

 

Exactly.

The financial link between the testing process and the promotors needs to be severed. They should pay into a central fund which would then be used to fund testing.

 

My Father in law now has two dead sons, but I did the right thing by my paymasters.

 

Helped kill my wife’s brother but at least DAZN subscribers got good value… oh wait they had to pay PPV on top.

 

Fair play?

You really are a fool

 

Is this another PR Stunt from Matchroom ?

If one of Matchroom's own boxers are tested positive and it is a boxer that Matchroom has a financial interest in, who seriously believes that they will do something about it ?

 

Massive PR stunt mate. Their own fighter (Baumgardner) failed a test a few weeks ago and they said nothing until a journalist leaked it.

They’re manipulative scumbags.

Jarrell Miller, Cusumano, Whyte (when facing AJ) - all reported on straight away by Matchroom.

Benn, Baumgardner, Whyte (when the A side in a Matchroom PPV) - all leaked by journalists and in Benn and Whyte’s case, kept quiet so the fight could either go ahead or try to go ahead.