Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn OFF: Kalle Sauerland's reaction to fight postponement

Chris Eubank Jr is ‘absolutely gutted’ after his fight with Conor Benn was postponed, according to promoter Kalle Sauerland.

Saturday’s DAZN PPV main event between Eubank Jr and Benn has been called off after it emerged that the latter had failed a drugs test.

Both men were reportedly still keen to proceed with the bout despite Benn, 26, returning ‘adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug.’

But Matchroom Boxing and Wasserman Boxing were left with no choice but to cancel the show following the British Boxing Board of Control’s decision to prohibit the fight from taking place.

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And Sauerland, who promotes Eubank under the Wasserman banner, expressed his disappointment after holding a joint press conference with Benn’s promoter Eddie Hearn to confirm the news on Thursday.

“I’ve come from being with Junior this morning and this afternoon,” he told iFL TV. “He is absolutely gutted.

“He was ready to fight, he was on weight, despite all of the pre-fight banter and different posts that were put out. But he was absolutely on weight and ready to fight. Super tough camp in just the most difficult of conditions for him.

“So that’s my first and foremost thought right now, together with all of the guys and girls on the undercard, each and every single of them who had gone through a camp to be on what was supposed to be a huge night of boxing on Saturday night. Just pure disappointment.”

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Hearn had earlier stated that he would not promote the event ‘with a foreign commission or alternative governing body.’

However,