British boxer Conor Benn has been charged with the alleged use of a prohibited substance by UK anti-doping authorities.
UK Anti-Doping mentioned on Thursday that the 26-year-old Benn was charged on April three for utilizing clomifene, a feminine fertility drug that’s on WADA’s record of banned substances and is understood to raise testosterone ranges in males.
UKAD mentioned it notified and provisionally suspended Benn on March 15. The anti-doping authority doesn’t usually disclose that an athlete has been charged or suspended, however mentioned this was “distinctive circumstances”.
Benn’s all-British catchweight bout with Chris Eubank Jr. was canceled in October after Benn returned traces of clomifene in a random check by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Affiliation.
The World Boxing Council cleared the welterweight fighter of intentional doping in February after a “extremely elevated consumption of eggs” was thought of a “affordable rationalization” for the failed check.
That left Benn, son of the previous British boxing world champion Nigel Benn, free to renew his boxing profession outdoors the nation after he relinquished his British Boxing Board of Management license.
Benn took to Twitter on Thursday to say the UKAD announcement was an try to “create a headline with my title.”
“Being ‘charged’ is a begin of a course of by which an athlete has to defend themselves,” he wrote.
“I’ve not been sanctioned by anybody & I am not banned from boxing. I stay free to combat in occasions that aren’t sanctioned by the BBBoC. I do not also have a BBBoC license.”
The British boxing authority famous the cost and mentioned it “awaits the end result of the UKAD course of in the end.”
