Ricky Hatton leads calls to clean up boxing after Conor Benn scandal

Boxing legend Ricky Hatton has urged senior figures to clean up the fight game in the wake of Conor Benn‘s failed drugs test.

Benn, 26, faces a potential four-year ban after failing a drugs test ahead of his fight with Chris Eubank Jr.

The Brit, who is a rising star in the squared circle, is currently taking some time away from the public eye while the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) carries out an investigation.

It has also been reported that Benn previously tested positive for the banned substance clomifene a few weeks before he was due to fight Eubank Jr.

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Those allegations have been strenuously denied by his promoter, Eddie Hearn.

Hatton told The Independent: “You know the fighters that are doing it, and you know the gyms where it happens.

"You just know. I think there is a lot of it going on. You see when a fighter suddenly changes gyms and within a fortnight is knocking everyone out.

"If you know the body and an expert in chemistry and biology you can get away with it. This is giving boxing a bad look because it’s been going on for a while and still nothing has been done about it.”

Hatton's own charge Chloe Watson was also caught up in the recent events, where she was scheduled to compete on the undercard before the show was cancelled amid the ongoing controversy.

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The 44-year-old - who will return to the ring in an exhibition bout with Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera on November 12 - added: “I was there at the press conference because I had Chloe on the undercard and she was gutted. I was gutted for the two headliners as well.

“Conor says he is innocent