ON THE back of the Conor Benn failed drugs tests, given that we now know he failed not one but two Vada tests for the same banned substance — the woman’s fertility drug clomifene — boxing has come under the kind of scrutiny that the sport’s movers and shakers most definitely will not have welcomed.

Regardless, it has been a long time coming and who knows at this juncture where it will end? This particular question carries even more significance because of the claims made by Benn’s sports doctor, one Dr Usman Sajjad, in podcast interview last year.

He claimed that you would have to be an idiot to fail a test for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in England, before going on to state that he believes between 80 and 90 per cent of professional boxers are regularly taking them.