Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn shall be dwell on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace on April 26.
The sons of Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn want to keep on their fathers’ well-known rivalry in 2025 after they struggle on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn are two of Britain’s most well-known boxers, whose fierce feud noticed them field one another for middleweight and super-middleweight world titles in Birmingham and at Previous Trafford in Manchester in 1990 and 1993.
Eubank Jr and Conor Benn, pure rivals themselves, have had quite a lot of altercations with one another since they had been first as a consequence of field in 2022.
Greater than two years in the past the pair had agreed to a bout at London’s O2 Enviornment just for it to be known as off days earlier than it was as a consequence of happen after the outcomes of Benn’s failed drug exams emerged.
Benn’s battle to clear his title has spanned the intervening years, with the lifting of his suspension coming in November after the Nationwide Anti-Doping Panel acknowledged it was “not comfortably satisfied” the 28-year-old had dedicated a doping offence.
With Benn clear to field within the UK, the struggle was rescheduled for the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26.
They’ll field at middleweight, with Benn rising up two divisions for his first struggle in Britain since he stopped Chris van Heerden three years in the past.
After avenging the primary stoppage lack of his profession, Eubank Jr beat Liam Smith in a excessive profile 2023 bout. He solely boxed as soon as final 12 months when he halted Kamil Szeremeta in Riyadh, with Benn confronting his rival earlier than and after that bout.
At their launch press convention in February, Eubank Jr slapped Conor Benn, breaking an egg on the aspect of his head. That incident noticed the British Boxing Board of Management situation Eubank with a £100,000 advantageous.
By placing him with an egg, in addition to being an assault to goad Benn, Eubank Jr was additionally referencing a declare by the WBC that Benn’s optimistic drug check might have been as a consequence of extreme consumption of eggs, a suggestion which Benn would later distance himself from.
British light-heavyweights characteristic on the undercard as Anthony Yarde and Lyndon Arthur renew their very own rivalry with a trilogy struggle. Arthur received his first bout with Yarde however the Londoner avenged that with a knockout victory of their second.
Liam Smith returns to the ring for the primary time since his knockout defeat to Eubank in September 2023, going through 19-0 undefeated Aaron McKenna in what guarantees to be an all-action conflict.
Dethroned former cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith faces Brandon Glanton in his first struggle since dropping his WBO belt to Gilberto Ramirez.
Viddal Riley, within the stadium of the soccer membership he helps, appears to be like to increase his unbeaten begin as knowledgeable to 13 fights as he challenges Cheavon Clarke for the British cruiserweight title.
Watch Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn dwell on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace on April 26.