Female fertility drug derails boxing blockbuster

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British boxing authorities said the combat betwixt Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. cannot spell ahead, hours aft the boxers' promoters said the bout was inactive connected contempt Benn failing a doping test.

The all-British catchweight bout was scheduled to instrumentality spot connected Sunday (AEST) astatine the O2 Arena successful London, 30 years aft the fathers of Benn and Eubank Jr. — Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank — fought successful the ringing successful 1 of British boxing's large rivalries.

The combat was thrown into uncertainty erstwhile Benn's promoters, Matchroom, said helium had “returned an adverse analytical uncovering for hint amounts of a fertility drug” pursuing a random trial by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.

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Because the “B” illustration had not been tested, Matchroom said “no regularisation usurpation has been confirmed” and Benn “remains escaped to fight.” Matchroom besides said Benn has since passed a doping trial conducted by the UK Anti-Doping Agency.

"I've not committed immoderate violations. I've not been suspended truthful arsenic acold arsenic I'm acrophobic the combat is inactive going ahead," helium said.

"I've spoken to Chris personally and we some privation the combat to spell ahead.

"We've some taken aesculapian and ineligible proposal and arsenic I said, we privation the combat to spell up for the fans.

"I've signed up to each voluntary anti-doping investigating determination is nether the sun.

"Throughout my full vocation I'm tested. All my UKAD tests person travel backmost antagonistic passim my full career.

"I've ne'er had immoderate issues before. Even successful the pb up to this combat my trial person travel up negative.

"So my squad volition find retired arsenic to wherefore there's been an archetypal adverse uncovering successful my test.

"But arsenic I said, the combat is inactive going ahead. I'm a cleanable jock and we'll get to the bottommost of this."

But wrong hours, the British Boxing Board of Control released a connection saying it had told some boxers and promoters that the combat was “prohibited arsenic it is not successful the interests of boxing".

Kalle Sauerland of Wasserman Boxing, which represents Eubank, said Benn tested affirmative for the pistillate fertility cause clomifene astatine the extremity of August oregon opening of September.

Clomiphene is connected WADA's database of banned substances.

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