Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn | PPV - 26 April 2025

[Ruthless-RKO]

[garethhop]

His defence is that the Board learned about them on the 23rd September and stopped him fighting because his Dad had ripped up his license in 1990.

Ill be honest. I was expecting a slightly stronger defence.

[coneye]

Said it before will say it again


BBBC ... WELL WHAT A TOOTHLESS GUTLESS TIGER THEY ARE , theres been boxers banned before when its not been has obvious , but bring names and money into it , there reculant to make a stand ,,, If nothing else its shown they need DISBANDING , and some sort of govt control brought in lets see Hearn or Benn threaten a govt dept with lawyers . .

Benn well fook him he's just one of many cheating pricks , Hearn , well he's what we know anyway , a used car salesmen , born into money . Benn will still end up a rich young man , he will still fight and get paid well , its just his future legacy that will be affected , but he's said himself on many many occasions , he could'nt give a RATS ARSE what people think cos he's got a porche

Hearn will still be trying to convince the world he's the number one promoter until such time he can't sign boxers , then he's stop playing with the working class and go hang out with Prince whatchamacallit and his actress wife

And mugs will still line up and pay out there hard earned to see cheats fight , because the people love a fight , they love to watch others bash each other up and think i could do that if i want ,, its the nature of the beast , 99.9% of people have never had a good smack in the head , they only know what its ike from seeing batman , with the Kapow , Boof , Wallop , its why rocky films were so popular people identified with it , and thought i could do that i'm like him .

I think the only ones who really deep down get upset about the cheating with steroids are the ones who have actually felt a punch , those who actually know what its like to have a rib sprung or cracked with a punch , had there nose or cheek broke , most don't know and thats why it will carry on because most don't really care ,

It needs for the bbbc to just do away with any testing make it an open feild where everyone knows they can use and get away with it ,, or for very very tight and stringent rules with govt backing brought in its time to SORT IT OUT

[Deserter]

Have to agree with others that despite whatever planning has gone on behind closed doors this is the most lame duck defence i've seen in recent years.

The 'fightback' today has amounted to the standard tactic of an exclusive interview being granted on the basis of getting a a chance to tell Benn's side of the story (in this case News International - The Sun + The Times), yet Connor's defence is so lame it amounts to yet another self-inflicted wound. Read Matt Lawton's piece in The Times and it's fair to say that he's struggling to find Benn's defence remotely plausible.

Whatever the legal team concocts (and given the firepower they are deploying, rest assured there will be an attempt here), it's looking increasingly destined to fall down in the face of public opinion, regardless of what plays out in the courtroom (if anything).

"traces", "contamination"... the more we hear, the more it reinforces what everyone already suspects.

[Frostieballs]

Well I for one will be queuing up to make my apology as requested following this convincing explanation

[Deserter]

Well I for one will be queuing up to make my apology as requested following this convincing explanation

[Exoddus]

So Conor Benn failed a VADA drugs test on the 25th of July and the 1st of September.

The board were still going ahead with the fight until it got leaked by the Daily Mail about the failed 1st of September failed test a few days before the fight

Then you have Eddie Hearn roasting people like Jarrell Miller. He must have known about both failed tests, but yet still tried everything he could to keep the fight on.

He's came across so poorly. He will never be able to wash the stink off!

[Controversial]

So Conor Benn failed a VADA drugs test on the 25th of July and the 1st of September.

The board were still going ahead with the fight until it got leaked by the Daily Mail about the failed 1st of September failed test a few days before the fight

Then you have Eddie Hearn roasting people like Jarrell Miller. He must have known about both failed tests, but yet still tried everything he could to keep the fight on.

He's came across so poorly. He will never be able to wash the stink off!

But according to Hearn all parties involved are informed of the VADA results, including the BBBoC, at the same time. He said before the BBBoC had withdrawn their sanctioning of the fight prior to it appearing in the press (not sure I believe that but that’s what he says) so if that is true then why did the board not act when they heard of the first failed test? I wonder if Benn is trying to throw the board under the bus but getting it out there they were aware of the first failed test and didn’t act on it.

[CaptainSpacerod]

You think he knew Benn was doping ? How could he not know ?

No chance.

I’m not having a pop at you here Spud, you take people as you find them and if your dealings with Sims have shown him to be a man of probity then I’ll take you at your word as I’ve got absolutely no evidence whatsoever to disprove that.

But isn’t your defence of him just the same as Eddie’s defence of Benn - in a nutshell “he’s a great lad, a man of honour, I’ve known him for years and I know he wouldn’t cheat” ?

[coneye]

Not gonna get in any arguments or back and forths about this , BUT i will say and i think anyone on here who has trained boxers will agree with me , when you train a lad / man you get to know them , and i mean know them in regards not only personality but physiclly ,,, you know what they can do , what they cannot do , you set regimes and standards for them , and know excatly what there capable off , ,,,

Example , I always set speed work up in spurts , 10 seconds on 20 off ,, the boxer would have to do a set combination of say jab , straight right , left hook , whastever i chose , i would always insist its done technicly good or its no use , not too much of it because after a while done too much it becomes heavy work .

Now heres my point , say a lad hits 50-60 punches in 10 sec spurt and carrys that for 3 rnds you say great effort , now when first starting he may only hit 25-30 , but you know hard work and increased fitness has doubled the amount ,,, heres the but ,,,, BUT if that lad / man starts to hit 80-100 y you would know its not right theres something else going on ,

Simarily with weight , i could look at an active boxer and say , you been on the mars bars or the piss , you have put weight on , and guess what 9 out of 10 times i would be correct , occasionaly wrong but not often , and why , do i have super powers , NO course not ,, its because you , me whoever has a coach spend that much time with these guys that you just know there bodies better than you know there own , and i'm not even talking about the high level that these guys are at .

So theres in my mind absolutly NO DOUBT that Simms would probably have a better eye than myself , after all he's well paid and not becuase he's an idiot he's well paid because he's supposudly good at his job , so summising he's better at his job than thousands of others , it would be safe to summise he too knows his boxers body better than he knows his own .

IF SIMMS did'nt know he's been getting paid under false pretences , COURSE HE KNOWS ,

[SticknMove]

I remember a significant point about Nigel. He was a relatively inexperienced amateur boxing experienced internationals. He said he had an instinct that he was quicker, stronger and more powerful even with that inexperience. He took that to another level....he put it on it on the line as the snarling dark destroyer.....got humbled and came back not as a snarling dark destroyer but as a smiling dark destroyer with the fans behind him.

I cant possibly know, not involved, but I think from the early showings from Conor that the same instincts were there but without as much promise and background. He 'learned on the job'. Then a leap....that cant be ignored. Going from trying to bang someone out to actually doing it against albeit past from their best ex world level non punchers is very dubious to me.

Just think Conor has been a marketable name that wanted the dollar bills.....he said it on numerous occasions....and he got some of them.

Dont know who was in that loop.....but unfortunately it seems a little too obvious to me even though I don't know anything for certain. Just seems to have backfired and showed up this nonsense. Lets be honest they have been at it for a long time. No way a Flyweight World Champ goes on to become a Light Middle Weight Champion without something else going on....no matter how exceptional the little fella.

Just glad the sh1tshow of CEJ going down to a weight he never has been at since a teenager, with a re-hydration clause, against a potentially adrenaline/PED filled younger guy hyped by settling some paternal rivalry didn't take place.

[Spud]

You think he knew Benn was doping ? How could he not know ?

No chance.

I’m not having a pop at you here Spud, you take people as you find them and if your dealings with Sims have shown him to be a man of probity then I’ll take you at your word as I’ve got absolutely no evidence whatsoever to disprove that.

But isn’t your defence of him just the same as Eddie’s defence of Benn - in a nutshell “he’s a great lad, a man of honour, I’ve known him for years and I know he wouldn’t cheat” ?

I understand what you are saying.

[Spud]

Have to agree with others that despite whatever planning has gone on behind closed doors this is the most lame duck defence i've seen in recent years.

The 'fightback' today has amounted to the standard tactic of an exclusive interview being granted on the basis of getting a a chance to tell Benn's side of the story (in this case News International - The Sun + The Times), yet Connor's defence is so lame it amounts to yet another self-inflicted wound. Read Matt Lawton's piece in The Times and it's fair to say that he's struggling to find Benn's defence remotely plausible.

Whatever the legal team concocts (and given the firepower they are deploying, rest assured there will be an attempt here), it's looking increasingly destined to fall down in the face of public opinion, regardless of what plays out in the courtroom (if anything).

"traces", "contamination"... the more we hear, the more it reinforces what everyone already suspects.

Was a lawyer present at the interview?

[Spud]

The legal team were present at this interview. Well written .. imo far better than The Sun’s

[SticknMove]

The legal team were present at this interview. Well written .. imo far better than The Sun’s

All the lawyers in the world will not deter people from what they already suspect.....whether they are implicit or keeping it to themselves because nothing is definitively proved one way or another until it is proved legally and definitively.

Ultimately only those involved know.....I sure as hell dont know.....just suspect those that do know will say I dont know.

[jtourettes]

The legal team were present at this interview. Well written .. imo far better than The Sun’s

Lol at that defence. 'I was eating between 30 and 34 eggs a week'.

[gregregegg]

Here’s what I want. Not Connor and hearn trying to explain he must be innocent.

Not fwank explaining how he must be guilty..

I want every test result and levels for benn over the last 3 years. All off them, dates, substances levels, ect. Then I can look at it and see weather I believe he is cheating and if so how he is cheating, without bias.

Problem is it’s not just the boxers and managers with bias. Different media have different biases too.

Why not just release alllll his test results.

[Ruthless-RKO]

[polecateddy]

The egg thing would appear to maybe have some scientific background - a handful of studies. But probably where it stretches credibility is the actual farmers would have to have been using clomiphene illegally to increase egg production. It’s probably not really that wide spread a practice, just theoretically possible.

[Dioufy]

So Benn did the Times interview with a couple of lawyers next to him.

[tonyevs]

Conor's problem is that they tested his supplements twice already.. and both times it showed clomiphene was still a banned substance

As expected Conor will get away without any sort of ban, he is already stating he will not fight under licence of BBBofC as if it's him banning them.

I am just wondering if the Eubank fight goes ahead now? Will DAZN try to distance themselves from it?
Where will Conor go after the fight win or lose? Opponents will be insisting on VADA testing from now on .. or they should if they are fighting clean anyways.

[polecateddy]

You never see may of these athletes with failed tests running out to do a polygraph test to support their innocence. Has there ever been one?

[polecateddy]

Historically fighters without British licences have on occasion gone off to far flung places, have a couple of non-descript fights and retire.

[margaret thatcher]

lool this is a new one for me, a boxer f@cking blaming chickens for his drug failure

[garethhop]

lool this is a new one for me, a boxer f@cking blaming chickens for his drug failure

Foreign chickens pal. Get it right.