Benn fails drug test

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by themaster999, Oct 5, 2022.


What excuse will be used for the failed test??

Poll closed Oct 13, 2022.
  1. Kid Galahads brother spiked his protein shake

    5 vote(s)
    8.6%
  2. Conor benn 'accidentally' took his sisters fertility pill, he thought it was a paracetamol

    31 vote(s)
    53.4%
  3. No case to answer. Completely reasonable to be seeing a testosterone specialist 4 hours away

    22 vote(s)
    37.9%
  1. Sonny1

    Sonny1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I doubt it. Eubank will be in a fight every two years at this rate and no one cares about him v anyone at this stage. Isn’t he coming up on mid 30s and he has achieved nothing even with all the alphabet titles which are available. Benn will be forgotten by the British public unless he gets out in the UK soon, which hopefully he won’t because he is a ped cheat in a sport where you can legally kill someone. He’s a ****.
     
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  2. carlingeight

    carlingeight Active Member Full Member

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    I'd say it's quite likely he's serving some kind of ban. But what's got to be sure now is that a combination of his Dad and Hearn have told him he really should be shutting up.

    Hearn's name has really been dragged through the mud on this one. You might not think that would matter too much considering Eddie lies about, well, basically everything. But it's one thing lying about what fights he's trying to make or what he thinks about various boxers, and another thing entirely to be complicit with porky after porky that could lead to life-altering injuries or even a death in the ring.

    Then you've got Nige who has always been well-loved by the public, but he's fast running out of the goodwill everyone has towards him. If it carries on it could start to seriously undermine his legacy, if it hasn't done so already.
     
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  3. Beale

    Beale Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good post

    Chris Eubank Snr gained my respect in the last 12 months with an honest interview about boxing and his son including describing his son as a charlatan.

    He may be an odd character but is a proven warrior with honest and objectivity always heard when interviewed.

    He would throw Chris Eubank Jnr under his large truck if he was aware of him taking PEDs.

    Nigel Benn's reputation is certainly being tarnished and Hearn's is being obliterated.
     
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  4. LeavemealoneKoooogs

    LeavemealoneKoooogs LeTs rUn iT bAcK Full Member

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    Re English's interview was that the one titled his "explosive rant on modern boxing?" have been meaning to watch it.
     
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  5. Sonny1

    Sonny1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Both of those blokes, Benn Snr and Hearn, are pricks and their behaviour along with that piece of human excrement cheater has been shameful.
     
  6. Bob Flaps

    Bob Flaps Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Maybe Queensberry funded it, Eddie will find out later and we'll have a showdown at BoxingMania next year
     
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  7. Beale

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    This was on Talksport on the Jim White show one day.

    White was trying to get him to stop making certain remarks about PED use in certain gyms and Snr's response was 'the truth is on my side should anyone want to try and sue me' along with 'I seen it with my own eyes'.

    We need more brave people like him with integrity to speak up.
     
  8. alpo1

    alpo1 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Eubanks lost the early battles but won the war against Benn when it comes to public perception.

    Their quality as people can be seen just from how their kids carry themselves.

    The warrior's code > essex chav lifestyle
     
  9. dannyboy147

    dannyboy147 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ryan Garcia may be innocent after all, the sample shows 1 billionth of a gram in his system, hardly juicing to the gills.
     
  10. like a boss

    like a boss Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    How many times have we heard 'only a fool would get caught these days?'

    The amount detected is often as much about the timing of the test as anything else. The disturbing aspect is that illegal substances are being detected at all.
     
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  11. Smudge_

    Smudge_ Teak tough Full Member

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    Osterine is a substance where there is no threshold for trace amounts. Any level of Osterine is a fail, even if it is "1 billionth of a gram" so if his B sample comes back the same, and it's highly, highly likely that it will, then no, Garcia isn't innocent after all.
     
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  12. like a boss

    like a boss Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Remember too that Garcia tested positive not once but twice. Once from his April 19th test and again from his April 20th test. So he may need both 'B' samples to contradict their 'A' sample results.
     
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  13. Smudge_

    Smudge_ Teak tough Full Member

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    Exactly, which isn't gonna happen. He's cheated and been caught.
     
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  14. carlingeight

    carlingeight Active Member Full Member

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    You can sum it up for Hearn in the first 30 seconds of this video.

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    When you've got the likes of Tank Davis saying that Hearn is a snake in a suit, and the first thing he thinks of is Hearn letting Benn fight after failing a drugs test, then you know just how badly this has been handled.

    Tank didn't even know that the same thing happened with Dillian Whyte, shows the difference when Whyte just kept quiet and let the whole thing play out.

    This is legacy-defining stuff for Eddie, how the history books will remember him. And all over such a horrid, limited fighter who looks like he can't even crack an egg since the failed tests.

    Must be really kicking himself when all he wanted was a few gimmicky PPVs trading off the back of the Benn name.
     
  15. ash234

    ash234 Ash Full Member

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    Similar happened with Amir Khan's failed test for Ostarine and his was ‘a grain of salt in a swimming pool’. To me that just says they misjudged their cycle slightly. Any trace of PEDs should be a lifetime ban.
     
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