Chris Eubank Jr says he’s “far too elite” to be overwhelmed by Conor Benn as he appears ahead to a possible “one of a kind” showdown along with his British rival.
Eubank and Benn had been as a result of battle in October 2022, just for the bout to be cancelled after Benn examined constructive for banned substance clomifene.
Benn, at present underneath a provisional suspension, has insisted he’ll finally be cleared to return to the ring.
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Benn says he’s going through the ‘hardest battle’ of his profession to defend his integrity as he returns to the ring whereas awaiting a British Boxing Board of Management listening to into his medicine ban subsequent month
Eubank Jr, whose father Chris beat after which drew with Benn’s dad Nigel throughout two blockbuster fights within the Nineteen Nineties, expects Conor Benn to have his licence to field reinstated earlier than they battle themselves.
After the fallout from their cancelled bout, he’s now desperate to “punish” his fellow Brit in the event that they lastly meet, though he’s adamant Benn will elevate his sport for a contest he says can be top-of-the-line the game has seen, as a result of opponents’ private historical past and their fathers’ in-ring classics over 30 years in the past.
Eubank, who returned from 13 months of inactivity with a seventh-round knockout of Kamil Szeremeta on October 12, stated of Benn that he desires to “punish him so badly that he doesn’t want to box again after he gets in the ring with me”.
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Benn invaded the ring after Eubank Jr’s spectacular victory over Kamil Szeremeta and vowed to cease him inside three rounds!
“The child is stuffed with confidence however he has by no means been in there with an elite-level fighter, a technician, any person who is aware of easy methods to harm him.
“It’s all well and good him saying what he can do but we are not going to know how tough, how great Conor Benn is until he is in there with somebody like me who can really test him.
“I believe what I convey to the desk is way too elite, far too superior when it comes to my expertise, ability, energy, velocity. I simply assume every little thing goes to be an excessive amount of for him. He’ll inform you totally different however I believe it will be a severe wake-up name for him.”
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Eubank Jr returned to the ring in model as he dropped Szeremeta 4 occasions on the way in which to a seventh-round stoppage
Eubank says a long-awaited showdown with Benn – which he insists Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi’s Normal Entertainment Authority, is intent on making in early 2025 – is even larger now and that he’s in full management, vowing to not meet his nemesis at catchweight.
He added: “[When the fight was postponed] I was devastated, p****d off, so angry but looking back it was one of the best things that could have happened in my career.
“Now the battle is thrice larger, the pay is quadruple, the phrases are all on my facet. I haven’t got promotors taking a chunk of the pie, individuals underpaying me.
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Eubank Jr strode to the ring to his normal Dr Dre theme tune and vaulted the ropes in Riyadh
“He has no leeway, no power. He forfeited all of that.
“There isn’t any compromise. The battle is at middleweight and it is take it or go away it – and he cannot go away it.”
Eubank Jr continued: “The battle can be one in every of a form. It has by no means occurred in boxing.
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“No two fighters have had fathers who were world champions and fought in massive fights 30-odd years ago with the entire country watching.
“Now the 2 sons have grown as much as turn out to be elite-level fighters and are going to battle. It has by no means occurred and can by no means occur once more. It’s a large deal.
“Fighting me, a sworn enemy in a fight broadcast around the world that could be at Wembley in front of 90,000 people or in an arena in Saudi is a whole different animal.
“It is going to convey out a beast in him that I can’t take calmly. I believe it will be savage, top-of-the-line fights British boxing, world boxing has seen for fairly a while as a result of it is actual. This is not faux.
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“Our fathers have the history, we now have the history. There is so much on the line: money, pride, legacy, upholding our fathers’ names, our families’ names. So much goes into this fight.”
“There were conversations about it [with Turki Alalshikh] in my changing room before I walked out to fight Kamil. He couldn’t even wait for the fight to be over to tell me this is what he wants.
“He desires Conor Benn in February or Might and that is all he cares about. He’s very enthusiastic about that battle which places me in a tremendous place.”
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