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Alex Pattle

UFC champion Leon Edwards says Conor Benn should be ‘banned’ after adverse drug test result

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British UFC champion Leon Edwards has said Conor Benn ‘should be banned’ after the boxer returned an adverse drug test result last week, leading to the cancellation of his fight with Chris Eubank Jr.

Almost 30 years after Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank fought for the second and final time, their sons were due to go head to head in London last Saturday. However, the highly-anticipated catchweight bout was cancelled after Benn, 26, returned a test result with traces of a fertility drug – namely the banned substance clomifene.

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