The bout scheduled for Saturday was set to rekindle the rivalry begun by their fathers, Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn, who fought twice in the 1990s.
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Promoters Matchroom Boxing and Wasserman Boxing had issued a joint statement insisting the bout would go ahead despite Benn returning an"adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug".
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