Conor Benn: British boxer reinstated into WBC rankings after failed drugs test ruling

Benn was scheduled to combat Eubank connected 8 October

Conor Benn has been reinstated to the World Boxing Council rankings arsenic it ruled his failed drugs trial was not intentional and could person been caused by an overconsumption of eggs.

He is inactive nether probe by UK Anti-Doping and the British Board of Boxing Control, and is incapable to combat successful the United Kingdom arsenic helium does not person a boxing licence.

Benn and Eubank were scheduled to conscionable connected 8 October astatine a catchweight of 157lb - 30 years aft their fathers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr fought.

The 26-year-old has antecedently blamed "contamination" for the findings. His defence outlined determination was a responsibility with the VADA investigating laboratory, but that was rejected by the WBC.

In a afloat statement, the governing assemblage said it recovered "there was nary conclusive grounds that Mr. Benn engaged successful intentional oregon knowing ingestion of clomifene".

It added: "There were nary failures successful the procedures related to illustration collection, illustration analysis, oregon violations of Mr. Benn's B Sample rights that would warrant questioning oregon invalidating the Adverse Finding, and Mr. Benn's documented and highly-elevated depletion of eggs during the times applicable to the illustration collection, raised a tenable mentation for the Adverse Finding."

The connection refers to a trial which took spot connected 25 July aft Benn enrolled successful the WBC's out-of-competition investigating successful July.

He tested affirmative for clomifene and its hydroxymetabolites MI and M2. The WBC says it did not person "substantive response" from Benn until December and the WBC did not marque a afloat investigation until January 2023.

The WBC intends to enactment with Benn and his squad successful the aboriginal to "avoid the hazard of a aboriginal adverse uncovering caused by nutritional factors".