07-05-2025
The British Should Lay Off Conor Benn, The Doping Drama Is Over
By Isaac Nyamungu
Barely a few days before the duo was due to clash in 2022, it occurred that Benn had failed two voluntary drug tests for the female fertility drug clomifene.
Benn, 28, went down after Chris Eubank Jr. savored the biggest win of his professional boxing career by unanimous verdict at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April.
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'I think inactivity played a big part. It's quite hard because the past two-and-a-half years, what had gone on, not fighting back here to then coming home to this, it took me back. It did take me back,' said Benn in a post-fight presser.
Benn surrendered his British boxing license after the positive tests and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) deferred him in March 2023, though he maintained he was still free to box outside of the UK.
'In a good way and in a bad way. I was sitting there going 'oh my gosh, this is unbelievable'. And then in the same breath... There were just a lot of new first times for me today, first stadium fight, first time fighting back here in three years, first fight at 160," he said in a post-fight interview.
Benn's innocence has been contested and doubted for two-and-a-half years, and now former world champion Froch says the British public should leave him alone and put the matter under the carpet.
'I'm hoping that the British fans have accepted that the position he's in now with the drug testing issues and can put it behind him. It's all old news, it's boring now for me. And there are many fighters before Conor Benn that failed drug tests that have gone on to win world titles and become massive legends and become Hall of Famers. So just leave Conor Benn alone, shut the f*** up about his drug test, and let him get on with his career. Let it go now,' said ex-World Champion Carl Froch in an exclusive interview with
