Gareth A Davies explains Conor Benn incident from ringside at Anthony Joshua fight and reveals what

Gareth A Davies has now revealed what happened off camera after Conor Benn slapped the microphone out of his hand. The incident occurred at ringside ahead of the Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin fight on Saturday night, which the Brit went on to win by unanimous decision.

Gareth A Davies has now revealed what happened off camera after Conor Benn slapped the microphone out of his hand.

The incident occurred at ringside ahead of the Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin fight on Saturday night, which the Brit went on to win by unanimous decision.

Davies attempted to interview Benn who was in the crowd, but the boxer refused to talk and even slapped the microphone.

This comes as Benn has been embroiled in controversy since last year after he failed two drugs tests in the build-up to his fight with Chris Eubank Jr that was cancelled.

At the time of the incident, Davies explained: “I don’t take it as a slight on me at all, it’s the talkSPORT microphone.

“He doesn’t wanna talk to talkSPORT, that’s what he’s clearly saying. He wasn’t aggressive towards me at all…

“We know that privately he’s been a bit disappointed by a lot of the criticism he’s had on talkSPORT and I think that’s all that’s happened tonight."

Davies has since appeared on talkSPORT Breakfast to provide further insight into the incident and reveal what happened off camera afterwards.

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"I've known Conor a long time, but I haven't seen him at all for the last six months and I've said a lot of things, but I've never once said that I believe he's a drugs cheat," Davies said.

"But, he has had clomiphene in his system twice and I've spoken about that until I'm blue in the face, in fact I'm fed up of talking about it, but it's part of the narrative of being a boxing correspondent/commentator.

"I didn't feel it was act of aggression towards me, I think he just clipped the microphone and as I said at the time, it's a kind of arrogance of youth at the moment and I feel that's the case with Conor not going in front of the British Boxing Board of Control to do his case.

"We spoke off camera later as well and he said he wasn't happy with me and he thought we were friends, but all I'm doing is my job and I hope the kid clears his name and comes back and is fully exonerated.

"What did I make of it? A lot has been said on talkSPORT over the last six months, we are the home of boxing and we go into every detail on the channel and it was an emotional reaction from him and maybe one he shouldn't have done at the time."

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