Benn fails drug test

That's the thing, he doesn't even reweet he just does a screen grab and crops

 

The BBC has a "football gossip" page which draws the ire of the papers. It gets huge traffic (which the BBC doesn't need) and people go there every morning for the transfer stories instead of going to the papers.

BBC does link to the sources (because it was forced to by Ofcom) but of course the headline is the story in most cases. And it had to be told to stop keeping score of when the papers were wrong, because sneering at stolen content isn't a good look. They should bin it.

 

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The UK press should be saying the exact same thing en mass but too many appear scared of possible repercussions.

 

Read that Conor Benn is busy preparing for his next fight. It will be interesting to see where that fight will be held and who he will face ?

 

Eubank Jr is a promotional free agent apparently, Hearn admitted having a chat with him last week (albeit a frank one!) - it wouldn't remotely surprise me if Benn-Eubank got staged under the Middle East Boxing Commission sometime this year.

Not that it's related but they also sanctioned that abomination of Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury back in the day so the UK promoters aren't strangers.

 

He doesn't identify as suspended, so he isn't.

 

Would be foolish for the Saudis to get mixed up with this. Dozens of fights they can make that won't tarnish them like this one could.

 

It is exactly what I expect.

The Saudis doesn't care too much about whether the boxers have eaten eggs

 

The BBBofC in the UK in a fight he cannot win.

 

So I wasn't thinking Saudi in particular - the MEBC is based in Dubai so you could see a fight going there for the right money.

 

I do wonder if boxing has just moved on from Benn vs Eubank.

When the first fight was scheduled there wasn't much going on in the sport, so it gained loads of excitement. Now there are genuinely world class fights happening on a semi-regular basis.

I think the fight originally was a bit of right place, right time. Now I just think it gets lost a little bit. The fight had it's moment, and Benn failed a load of drugs tests. Bad luck

 

Of course it has, no one cares about Benn boxing anyone, boxing fans just want to see him get his comeuppance hence this thread is still going. Eubank too, it’s old news and he never delivered or won an alphabet belt. If he retired tomorrow, no one would really care would they? Maybe a couple of diehard fans, but that’s it.

 

Which makes it all the more possible for some dodgy money to put it in front of a small audience in the gulf

I'm sure once the fight is there, it might produce an audience like Khan-Brook did. You can't beat some stale beef.

 

At least that was a fight which still had some intrigue. Personally I couldn’t give a monkeys about crappy Benn and Jnr.