Conor Benn 's trainer Tony Sims has admitted he is "devastated" after a failed drug test led to Benn's fight with Chris Eubank Jr being cancelled.
Benn and Eubank Jr were scheduled to meet in a 157lb catchweight fight this Saturday, 30 years on from their fathers' legendary rematch which ended in a draw. But the fight was called off after Benn returned a positive result for the banned substance clomifene stemming back from a VADA test taken in August. Sims, who has been working with Benn since he was a teenager, said the boxer is determined to get to the bottom of his adverse finding after maintaining he did not knowingly take the substance.
"After 26 years in boxing, a sport I love and have dedicated my life to, I can say hand on heart that I have never experienced or witnessed any athlete in my camp fail an anti-doping test, voluntary or mandatory and I stand proud by that fact," Sims wrote. "Today leaves me truly devastated as we call a postponement to such an amazing event that I was honoured to say I was a part of.
