Frank Warren commended the British Boxing Board of Control for stepping in and prohibiting Conor Benn’s fight with Chris Eubank Jr.
Following a Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency test (VADA), Benn received a positive result. The VADA test detected traces of Clomifene, a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The 26-year-old’s UK Anti-Doping tests came back negative, but the BBBoC Statement releasedIt would not sanction the fight.
Both fighters Still want the fight to go ahead and Matchroom chief Eddie Hearn is Explore all optionsIt is possible.
Frank Warren, Promoter joined talkSPORT Drive to give his assessment of the situation.
He said: “What’s happening here is that the two boxers are going to earn a lot of money and can see it’s not going to happen.
“They’ve trained hard. Eubank Jr is taking a calculated risk in as much saying ‘I don’t care if he’s taken it, I think I can beat him’. That’s where he’s at.
“The promoter wants it to go on, but that’s not in their best interests or the best interests of boxing.
“The Board has shown some integrity here if the fact is he’s tested positive. Nobody has denied that, but the bottom line is why have you signed up for VADA if you didn’t need to and were relying on the UKAD tests?
“Why pay the money out to have them tested?”
When asked if he would pull the fight, Warren said: “Yeah I would. What are you going do if something goes horribly wrong? What do you do?
“Everyone was worried about it in the sport anyway. Conor is increasing in weight and Chris Eubank has to drink to lose that weight. He’s 33, he’s not a young kid.
“The big problem in boxing when we’ve had problems, most of the time it has been dehydration.
“God forbid if anything went wrong, how do you justify it?”
Even though neither Benn nor Eubank Jr is one of Warren’s fighters, he was able to provide a unique insight into how things work and how the BBBoC will approach this.
He said: “The Board of Control obviously have a real concern about this, and I can understand where they are coming from.
“There has to be some integrity in this, they applied the rules as per their rulebook.
“It says that if a fight is to the detriment to boxing, then they will withdraw the sanction. It can be for any reason.
“I am assuming they are applying that because of the VADA test.”
