Eddie Hearn is adamant that Conor Benn’s fight with Chris Eubank Jr is merely postponed, rather than cancelled, and insists that he could put on the Battle of Britain ‘tomorrow’.
The hotly-anticipated bout was called off on Thursday, just over 48 hours before the pair were set to take to the ring at the O2 Arena, after it had emerged that Benn failed a drug test in the build-up to the fight.
On Wednesday, news broke that Benn had returned a positive result for the banned substance clomifene in a Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) test. Clomifene is a fertility drug that can also be used to boost testosterone levels.
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) subsequently prohibited the fight on the grounds that it was ‘not in the interests of boxing’.
Benn later released a statement maintaining his innocence. “My team and I will consider the next options including rescheduling the flight, but my immediate focus is on cleaning my name because I am a clean athlete!” he said.
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“But we want a procedural answer from the people who ultimately wouldn’t sanction this fight as well to say ‘I get it we listen to what you say’, but ‘what now?”
“From Conor Benn’s side, the work around the clock has been going on and is now in turbo drive to deal with this situation, which he’ll meet head on. That’s his process he’s going through now and we need to speed that process up because I want to make this fight, but at the right time.
“That right time is, I don’t know, two weeks, a month, six months, a year? That will be determined by what comes out over the coming days and weeks because there has to be a strategy and a plan and he’ll want his case to be heard.”
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