IT MAY seem unfair that both Conor Benn and Eddie Hearn are the focal points of Thomas Hauser’s latest study into PEDs in boxing [pages 24-29]. Benn and Hearn, after all, are far from the only ones involved in a problem that’s just as prevalent today as it was several years ago when champions like Tyson Fury and Canelo Alvarez were caught out.
Prior to those two high-profile stars flunking tests, that came after several years of other multiple test failures, it seemed that boxing needed a fighter of significant magnitude to pop dirty so an example could be made of them. But Canelo’s six-month suspension was deemed lenient and Fury’s backdated two-year ban, that came after a period of time in which Tyson was not in any fit state to fight, did not convey the
