Chris Eubank Jr has shut down suggestions that Liam Smith has stolen his Christmas - by claiming that Conor Benn has.
Eubank Jr was due to meet Benn on October 8, a day shy of the 29th anniversary of their fathers’ last meeting in the ring. However, the catchweight bout was cancelled at the 11th hour after news broke that Benn had returned a positive A sample with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) around a fortnight earlier.
It was later revealed that Benn had tested positive for the same substance earlier in the summer, something that neither he nor his promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom disclosed in the wake of the bombshell leak by the Daily Mail, which initially caused the cancellation of the October fight.
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