OUR REASONING for breaking the story on Conor Benn’s provisional suspension with UKAD was purely from a desire to see the correct processes followed.
As the editor of Boxing News, I am conscious of the sport’s image to the outside world, a view too often ignored by those working within the industry, and I remain certain that Benn fighting in a high-profile bout on foreign territory, prior to responding to doping charges, is a woeful look that only heightens the perception that boxing is a playground upon which the richest and most influential run riot.
Eddie Hearn declined when I gave him the chance on Tuesday last week, hours before the story was published on our website. But, to his credit, a somewhat exasperated Hearn didn’t shy away from the issue when asked by numerous online video outlets in Cardiff on Thursday April 20, ahead of Joe Cordina’s wonderful victory over Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov last week.
