What Next For Chris Eubank Jr And Conor Benn?
After having engaged in their heavily hyped fight that delivered and then some, what next for (still?) bitter British rivals Chris Eubank Junior and Conor Benn?
After having engaged in their heavily hyped fight that delivered and then some, what next for (still?) bitter British rivals Chris Eubank Junior and Conor Benn?
Tonight on the big Eubank Jr. vs. Benn fight card in London, fans witnessed a great, hugely impressive breakout performance from a young fighter.
After all the drama in the lead-up to tonight’s big “Next Gen” grudge-match between Chris Eubank Junior and Conor Benn, Chris Eubank Senior has just surprised absolutely everyone by arriving at the sold-out Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Tonight, in what proved to be a good start to the heavily hyped Chris Eubank Junior-Conor Benn card at Tottenham, cruiserweights Chris Billam-Smith and Brandon Glanton gave us a gruelling, thoroughly engrossing 12-round battle.
It seems there is a good chance that living legend and all-time great Manny Pacquiao could fight again. A few months back, there was talk of Pac-Man returning to the ring for the first time since losing a decision against Yordenis Ugas, this loss occurring in August of 2021.
The hits by way of fines keep on coming for Chris Eubank Jr. Today, as he attempted to make the contractually agreed weight of 160 pounds for tomorrow night’s big grudge match with fellow British fighter Conor Benn, Eubank Jr.
This one, if it actually happens, will be a genuine shocker – as well as a very, very dangerous fight for one of the two men in the ring.
Forget, if you can, the bad blood that exists between Saturday night’s headliners – Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. The opening bout on Saturday’s card at an expected sold-out Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has gone into full nasty mode.
If ever a rivalry that was 1-1, crammed full of two-way violence, absolutely screamed for a part three, it is the super-middleweight rivalry that went down between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler.
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, in speaking with Sky Sports, said that the winner of this Saturday night’s heavily hyped British grudge-match between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Junior “is going to be a major player in boxing worldwide.”