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What would have happened if the results were reversed and UKAD's was positive instead?

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Hi Dan,

Enjoyed the Boxing Social interview you did today! As always, appreciate your efforts and time in covering all of this.

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Matchroom just confirmed it is OFF!

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I've read it's still on but now you say it's off?

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Did Benn use VADA for his most recent fights?

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Oct 7, 2022·edited Oct 7, 2022

Hearn was being cute. What would he have said if he was not involved?

Why agreed to something if its results were irrelevant?

If the VADA's results were irrelevant, why did they hide them from the public?

Did Hearn read the " it is not in the interests of boxing" clause? No due process? He had since 23 Sep to engage with BBBoC? It is apparent that the BBBoC only came out after the story was exposed. Thus BBBoC was forced to act as it did due to the adverse publicity.

Why didn't he immediately have the B sample tested?

Without the Daily Mail expose, the biff would have gone ahead. However, Gareth Davies said he also heard a high-level goss on the same day that the story came out.

Where is there is big money involved, there is big......

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Doesn't the B sample procedure need a review now, it appears open to exploitation. Dillion Whyte had an issue with a B test that went missing after before and it was glossed over. Two major promoters appear to have condoned profit over a boxer's safety and BBoBC control should be commended, if this fertility drug offered no great benefit why was it banned and why was Connor Benn taking it?.

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Hearn & Sauerland say they’ve known about the dirty A-sample for weeks. If that’s the case why hasn’t the B-sample result come back yet?

Could it be that the request to have the B-sample analysed was deliberately delayed so that Hearn and Sauerland could use the “due process” excuse to try to convince the BBBofC to not stop the fight.

If this is the case then Hearn and Sauerland were disappointed as the BBBofC stood up to them and should be given credit for doing so.

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That Benn evidently thought he needed to take an anti-estrogenic drug (ostensibly to help him bulk up) sort of underscores the point that he never had any business fighting a middleweight/super middleweight opponent like Eubank in the first place. I’m not especially sad about this fight getting called off. Kind of a circus act, in my opinion.

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