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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Donagh Corby

Eddie Hearn rules out using foreign governing body to stage Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn

Eddie Hearn has declared he won't be moving to a different governing body in order to drag Saturday night's fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn over the line.

The huge pay-per-view clash is set for to take place in front of a sold-out crowd at The O2 arena in London this weekend, and a cancellation would be disastrous for broadcaster DAZN. But the British Boxing Board of Control have banned the bout from taking place after Benn had an adverse finding flagged in one of his drug tests ahead of the event.

Both Hearn and co-promoter Kalle Sauerland are desperate to make the fight happen, as are both fighters, but they are running out of options and times to make it a reality. And now the Matchroom Boxing boss has insisted that they won't be going to a foreign governing body to make the fight happen if the BBBoC refuse to change their stance.

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