This is the bizarre reason a former boxing world champion was pulled over by police and drug tested
A former boxing world champion has revealed the bizarre reason he was pulled over by police and drug tested.
Police decided to pull over the former super-middleweight champion after they saw him eating Hula Hoops at the wheel while driving.
However, the ex-boxer was not under the influence of drink or drugs and passed the tests with no issue as a result.
The individual in question later saw the funny side of the incident, as he took to Instagram to post a photo of him being drug tested.
He captioned the post: “Got a drugs test on the weekend because I was swerving while eating Hula Hoops.
“[The] moral of the story ‘DON’T EAT HULA HOOPS WHILE DRIVING.'”
The man in question was Nigel Benn, who was nicknamed ‘The Dark Destroyer’ and won the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and held the WBC super-middleweight title from 1992 to 1996.
His most notorious fights include the successful defence of his world middleweight title defence against Iran Barkley in 1989 and his two world title contests against Chris Eubank in 1990 and 1993.
Former boxing world champion Nigel Benn has revealed the bizarre reason he was pulled over by police and drug tested
Police decided to pull over the former super-middleweight champion after they saw him eating Hula Hoops at the wheel while driving.
Nigel later saw the funny side of the incident, as he took to Instagram to post a photo of him being drug tested
These were arguably eclipsed by the successful defence of his world super-middleweight title against Gerald McClellan in 1995.
It comes after it was revealed on Thursday that Nigel’s son Connor – who followed in his father’s footsteps by entering professional boxing – is free return to a British ring after UK Anti-Doping brought an end to a two-year fight over his failed drugs tests.
UKAD had been considering their options after the independent National Anti-Doping Panel ruled earlier this month that they were ‘not comfortably satisfied’ Benn had broken any rules, despite returning two positive samples for clomifene in 2022.
Along with the British Boxing Board of Control, UKAD have now confirmed they will not exercise their right to appeal, meaning most key obstacles to Benn fighting on home shores have been cleared. There is still an option for the World Anti-Doping Agency to appeal within the next three weeks.
The saga will raise questions about the principle of strict liability around doping matters, with prominent sources in boxing also privately questioning if UKAD had the appetite to maintain such a complicated course of action.
For Benn, who has always denied wrongdoing, the immediate intention is to fight Mario Barrios, the WBC welterweight world champion, with other bouts floated against Gervonta Davis, Devin Haney and Chris Eubank Jr.
Benn’s only outings since Mail Sport revealed his positive tests in October 2022 have come in two low-profile fights in the US on foreign licences.
