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George Sessions

British Boxing Board of Control says Benn-Eubank Jr fight is ‘prohibited’

PA Wire

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) has said it has ‘prohibited’ Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn from taking place, after the latter returned an ‘adverse’ drug test result.

On Wednesday (5 October), a joint-statement from promoters Matchroom and Wasserman declared that Benn had returned a result with “trace amounts of a fertility drug”, which was later confirmed to be clomifene.

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