, who belatedly 'prohibited' the fight. But there are farcical events around the collapse of this huge fight which could have been expedited by executive decision making. For one, drug testing in boxing appears farcical. Layers of obfuscation. No transparency, no one speaking, nothing more than a blame game. Let's get one thing straight. Whatever went on behind the scenes from September 23, when Benn's positive test through VADA was relayed to the boxers, until October 5, when the fight was cancelled, their promoters, and the BBBoC, everybody involved failed the sport – and its fans. What should have happened is that the fight should have been called off. Immediately. Instead, a mighty mess ensue){kind=link}
The fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr should have been called off immediately. Instead, a mighty mess ensued
Boxing has dug a gigantic hole for itself in the past fortnight – and the sport refuses to stop digging.
So many questions, so few answers to the way in which the Benn-Eubank saga was handled.
Even as an insider in the sport, able to speak to the main players involved, there has been a lack of transparency and little indication as to when the answers will be forthcoming.
There are plenty of people prepared to speak, but only off the record, or at the behest of their lawyers. And several critical questions they will not answer about what happened after Conor Benn’s positive test for clomifene on September 1 – and a second one two months earlier, revealed Friday – weeks before the fight was scheduled.