Benn fails drug test

This is appalling. Genuinely disgraceful.

Matchroom just mayaswell get rid of all testing in fight contracts.

 

No excuse can be worse than Tyson Fury’s

 

They're banking on the heat dying down on them. Cnts. Absolute cnts. The pair of them. Eggie and Con Bent.

 

So anyone agree with the theory that Benn has been serving a 6 month ban but it was kept confidential?

 

Surely not even he has the brass neck to be doing interviews and tweets as he has in that time?

 

Who issues the ban If he tore up his BBBC licence? I just don't get how it all works, It's too confusing without a world governing body.

 

That's the point, ripping up the license basically means he can't be, if WBC ban him, he can just go for an IBF under a Macedonian lisence.

 

The testing system is a farce as you just relinquish your license and no jurisdiction can actually ban you.

BBBoC should come out and say they will not sanction a Benn fight for x amount of years

 

Issue is there would probably be some ludicrous grey area where Benn could sue the board for defimation of character or something

 

I was thinking along the same lines.

It's clear as day he has torn up his BBBoC license to prevent them from formally banning him- even though he has clearly failed 2 x drug tests weeks apart for the same substance, so he has no excuse of contamination as he has failed more than one test over a period of months and the b sample is quite obviously the same (as Matchroom and Conor refuse to discuss it, since it does not exonerate him).

So, Conor is trying to circumvent the rules by giving up his license voluntarily. He has been caught cheating twice, and is blatantly trying to cheat again after being caught cheating!

Based on the VADA results and 2 x test fails, the BBBofC could just refuse to sanction him to fight in the UK, under any license for a fixed period of time. Which country the license is from should be irrelevant as it's such an obvious and cheap loophole.

Of course, that's easier said that done. As far as I know, that has never been done before, so probably there is no precedent for it? They would probably face a threat of more legal action from Matchroom. Although Matchroom also have to be careful not to overplay their own hand. It's quite obviously beneficial to maintain a good relationship with the governing body of the country you mainly operate in and losing that to protect a totally mediocre fighter like Conor Benn is long tern not going to be in their favor.

The fight with Eubank at catchweight is gone anyway. It's very clearly 160 lbs. and no rehydration limit or nothing. It now makes even LESS sense for Matchroom to go to these lengths to protect Conor. With the only advantage he had in the fight gone a Eubank win becomes a formality- he gets battered and knocked out, and/or very badly hurt at the higher weight, he is so far of a middleweight. I thought he should have started out at 140 never mind 147, the top guys at 140 are naturally bigger than him anyway.

 

It's a bit mad. Barry and Nigel's jumped up spoiled sons thinking they're bigger than the boxing board.

You thought Eddie would have learned to curb his ego after the dazn disaster.

 

Read on Twitter earlier that Benn apparently doesn't want a warm up fight upon his "return".

Demanded

Chris Eubank jnr (weight drained)

Manny Pacquiao (semi retired 44 year old)

Gervonta Davis (what, three or four weight divisions below)?


Kell Brook (shot and retired).



I don't think I've ever disliked a fighter so much, for so many reasons.

 

Without all the eggs he will probably be the same weight div as Davis

 

Just when I think they can't step deeper into it they double down.

'his truth'

Not the truth, but 'his truth'. Get. To. ****.

Kell Brook it is then.

 

This would be a distinct possibility seeing as he passed all the tests the BBBoC recognised when sanctioning this fight.