It’s safe to say that Errol Spence Jr is skeptical of the latest development in Conor Benn’s doping case.
The Brit was revealed to have failed two drugs test last year for banned substance, Clomiphene, and has been protesting his innocence ever since.
Following months of relative silence on the matter, Benn recently cooperated with the UK Anti-Doping Agency in the hope of clearing his name in his home country.
He was said to have provided 270 pages of evidence to the organisation in preparation for a trial – a dossier that was previously described as focused on laboratory errors rather anything found in his body.
Dr Mohammed Enayat, who has been drafted in to assist Benn with the UKAD case, told The Times that he believed it was contamination in Benn’s system after all.
“Without a question of doubt we’ve proved it’s contamination, 100 per cent.”
The conclusion – reached by Benn’s team, not yet UKAD – contradicts what the fighter previously believed.
The 26-year-old called the WBC’s claim that a highly-elevated consumption of eggs was a reasonable explanation a ‘disservice’, instead believing that ‘testing errors’ was the explanation.
Spence, the unified champion of the division in which Benn competes, mocked the idea that he would pursue a case of food contamination after so staunchly claiming that he believed the substance had never been in his system in the first place.
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— Errol Spence (@ErrolSpenceJr) June 26, 2023
The UKAD verdict is expected imminently, and Boxing Social understands that Benn’s team are positive of a good result.
Should that be the case, he’s set to head straight into training camp for a September fight against Chris Eubank Jr that, according to promoter Eddie Hearn, could land at either Wembley or The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.