'Joke' ruling as egg diet clears boxer of doping

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Conor Benn was cleared of intentional doping erstwhile the WBC ruled that the British boxer's depletion of eggs presented a “reasonable explanation” for his failed test.

Benn's catchweight bout with Chris Eubank Jr. scheduled for past October had been cancelled aft Benn's urine trial showed hint amounts of fertility cause Clomiphene, a banned substance that boosts testosterone levels portion burning fat.

The all-British bout was scheduled to instrumentality spot 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.

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“Mr. Benn's documented and highly elevated depletion of eggs during the times applicable to the illustration postulation raised a tenable mentation for the adverse finding,” the WBC said successful its ruling.

The WBC said it volition reinstate the 26-year-old Benn successful its rankings. The sanctioning assemblage said determination was “no conclusive grounds that Mr. Benn engaged successful intentional oregon knowing ingestion of Clomiphene.”

Benn's presumption remains successful uncertainty contempt the WBC's ruling.

British boxing authorities had called disconnected Benn's bout pursuing the tests conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association. Benn, who has denied immoderate wrongdoing, had past relinquished his licence with the British Boxing Board of Control.

The committee and UK Anti-Doping are inactive investigating.

“The BBBoC has not been enactment to the reappraisal conducted by the WBC and has not been provided with show of immoderate grounds submitted connected Mr. Benn's behalf," the committee said successful a statement.

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