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IThasn’t been the best month – or, for that matter, couple of months – for promoter Eddie Hearn, though he has had worse times in boxing, he will tell you.
One of those times was when he received a phone call from Robert Smith of the British Boxing Board of Control telling him there had been an adverse finding on a Dillian Whyte pre-fight drug test ahead of Whyte’s July 2019 bout against Oscar Rivas. No good time for that, Hearn was, at the moment of the call, on his way to the press conference to do what he does best: sell a fight he now had every reason to believe was in the balance.
Another rotten time for Hearn was when he received news that Jarrell Miller had essentially collected every performance-enhancing drug on the market and proceeded to inject them into every available part of his body before a June 2019 world heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua. No good time for that sort of news, either, Hearn, when the call arrived, was celebrating selling out Madison Square Garden and duly preparing for the launch of what he believed would be a fruitful journey for Anthony Joshua in the United States of America.
It’s only Hearn’s experience in these situations – a sad indictment in itself – that allows the promoter to sit here today and call his experience with Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jnr only the
