Conor Benn fails drugs test

Whyte couldn’t use an ingested supplement or tainted meat excuse as he failed his test for Dianabol metabolites which is a potent steroid and not naturally occurring or in supplements. It did not matter anyway as he was still allowed to fight Rivas and the failed test just seemed to disappear.

 

The British Boxing Board of Control says Saturday's fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr is "prohibited and not in the interests of boxing".

Benn, 26, has returned an "adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug", promoters have said.

They say he has not been suspended and is free to fight Eubank, 33, in London as his B sample has yet to be tested.

But British boxing's governing body has issued a statement that places the all-British fight in doubt.

The board said its decision not to sanction the fight was communicated to the boxers and promoters on Wednesday morning.

 

Your test levels would not be elevated while on Clomid. It’s used to bring your test levels back to a normal range following a cycle. If anything, free testosterone might still be on the low side.

 

He got away with with it with Whyte

 

Exactly it’s a known PCR to put things back in check after a cycle, Benn basically has tapered off his cycle to late and been caught .

 

I have a prediction for what his excuse may be. He will say his wife was on this medication and he accidentally took one of her pills thinking it was something else. There is no way else he could explain it getting into his system.

 

Same reply as he gave with Whyte case “ we have known for weeks “

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I know it's unlikely but this drug can also be prescribed off-label for male fertility. Regardless, his name is now tarnished unless the lab comes back and says they messed up samples or some other such mitigating factor.

 

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If these tests are completely random and multiple bodies are performing the tests, why do VADA show a positive and UKAD not. Are VADA tests better? Also, if the promoters / fighters know how stringent VADA testing is, why sign up? It's a British fight where VADA has no jurisdiction.

 

The murky business of boxing was thrown into a fresh crisis on Thursday when the promoter Eddie Hearn refused to accept a ruling by the British Boxing Board of Control that Saturday night’s fight in London between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr should be “prohibited.” Hearn expressed his willingness to challenge the Board’s decision legally despite the fact that Benn, whom he promotes, had tested positive for clomifene according to the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency.

Hearn also stressed that the British Boxing Board of Control “do not acknowledge Vada testing. Citing an earlier example where the British boxer Billy Joe Saunders had an adverse finding on his Vada test, and was banned in Massachusetts, Hearn reiterated that the British Board of Control had instead accepted a Ukad test which cleared the fighter of any illegality.

 

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