British Boxing Board of Control pulls Benn v Eubank Jr after drug test fail

Conor Benn failed an anti-doping test in run-up to fightEddie Hearn had insisted bout would still go ahead

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) has “prohibited” Saturday night’s fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr from taking place as “it is not in the interests of boxing”, the governing body has announced.

The move counters an earlier statement by the Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn that the fight between the sons of British boxing’s great middleweights would take place despite Conor Benn had returned an “adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug”.

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