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Chris Eubank Jr reacts as Conor Benn fight is postponed after opponent ‘got caught’

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Chris Eubank Jr has said Conor Benn has ‘escaped his schooling for now’, after the pair’s fight was postponed due to an adverse drug test result returned by Benn.

Eubank Jr, 33, and Benn, 26, were scheduled to meet in a 157lbs catchweight bout on Saturday night, but it was revealed on Wednesday that the latter had returned a test result with traces of a fertility drug. The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) then declared that it had ‘prohibited’ the main-event fight at London’s O2 Arena.

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