Conor Benn hits back at Domino’s after they jokingly named a pizza featuring eggs after him
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‘I actually prefer Pizza Hut’: Conor Benn hits back at Domino’s after his social media post mocked his failed drug tests and was blamed on him eating too many EGGS
- Conor Benn cleared to return to WBC rankings after investigation into failed drug test
- ‘Very high egg consumption’ may have been behind failed trial
- Domino’s Pizza mocked the failure to simulate a pizza with eggs on Twitter
Conor Benn has criticized Domino’s Pizza by insisting he prefers rivals Pizza Hut after a bizarre post from the take-out chain.
Domino’s initially posted an image on its Twitter page showing a regular pizza topped with lots of eggs, before jokingly calling it the ‘Conor Benn special’.
The post referred to the conclusion of the boxer’s failed drug test that preceded the cancellation in the 11th hour of his October fight with Chris Eubank Jnr and triggered allegations of a cover-up as he also failed a test in July.
Benn has since been allowed to regain his place in the World Boxing Council rankings after the sanctioning body controversially ruled on Wednesday that his positive drug tests may have been caused by eating too many eggs.
However, Benn responded to Domino’s post, simply stating that he preferred another restaurant chain over Pizza Hut.
Domino’s tweeted a photo of a pizza with eggs and called it a “Conor Benn Special.”
However, Benn responded to the bizarre post by insisting that he preferred Pizza Hut.
Benn failed a drug test in October but has been cleared to return to WBC rankings.
In a verdict that has drawn attention in the sport, the WBC accepted that the first of its failed clomiphene tests, compiled by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association in July, could have been the result of a diet Benn was apparently eating on. to 34 eggs a week.
The WBC found that “there was no conclusive evidence that Mr. Benn intentionally or knowingly ingested clomiphene,” but in a surprising development revealed that contamination had not actually been the primary goal of his defense, which favored attacking the processes. VADA test.
Indeed, having pushed back against such criticism from Benn’s VADA legal team, the WBC claimed in a statement on Wednesday that it was only earlier this month that the fighter’s lawyers provided a detailed breakdown of the fighter’s nutritional intake, i.e. , the gap between the delivery of key evidence and the verdict of a complex case was just three weeks. Leading boxing figures have privately questioned the soundness of the WBC investigation.
Benn was due to face off in a highly anticipated fight against Chris Eubank Jnr.
‘People think YouTube boxers are a joke. The WBC is the real joke,’ Carl Frampton said.
Despite the WBC using its term-limit to clear Benn to return to his welterweight ranking, the 26-year-old, who has vociferously protested his innocence, is still not free to fight on a Board show. of British Boxing Control in this country due to the ongoing UK Anti-Doping parallel investigation.
In a forceful statement on Wednesday evening, Board Secretary General Robert Smith said: ‘The BBBoC has adopted the UK’s anti-doping rules, and those were part of the rules to which Mr Benn was bound. . As such, the WBC’s decision does not affect the ongoing implementation of the BBBoC rules.
‘The UK anti-doping rules clarify what conduct constitutes an anti-doping rule violation as defined in those rules (and the World Anti-Doping Code) and specifically set out the circumstances in which such violations may be committed through strict control. responsibility.’