Chris Eubank Jr says he is “too elite” to be beaten by Conor Benn as he looks forward to a potentially “special” showdown with his British rival.
Eubank and Benn were scheduled to fight in October 2022. only for the fight to be called off after Ben tested positive for the banned drug clomiphene.
Benn, who is currently under suspension, has insisted that he will eventually be cleared to return to the ring.
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Benn says he faces the “toughest fight” of his career to defend his integrity as he returns to the ring awaiting a British Boxing Board of Control hearing into his doping ban next month.
Eubank Jr, whose father Chris beat and then drew Ben’s father Nigel in two blockbuster fights in the 1990s, expects Conor Ben to have his boxing license reinstated before they fight.
In the aftermath of their canceled fight, he is now keen to “punish” his fellow Brit if they do finally meet, although he is adamant Ben will raise his game for a contest he believes will be one of the best the sport has seen as to the personal history of the competitors and the classics of their fathers more than 30 years ago.
Eubank, who returned from a 13-month layoff on Oct. 12 with a seventh-round knockout of Camille Seremeta, said of Benn that he wants: “Punish him so badly that he won’t want to box again after he gets in the ring with me.”
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Ben stormed into the ring after Eubank Jr’s impressive win over Camille Seremeta and vowed to stop her within three rounds.
“The kid is full of confidence, but he’s never been there with an elite-level fighter, a technician, someone who knows how to hurt him.
“It’s all well and good that he says what he can do, but we won’t know how tough, how great Conor Benn is until he’s out there with someone like me who can really test. to him
“I think what I bring to the table is extremely elite, far superior in terms of my experience, my skill, my strength, my speed. I just think it will all be too much for him. He will tell you differently, but I think. it will be a serious alarm for him.”
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Eubank Jr. returned to the ring in style as he dropped Seremeta four times en route to a seventh-round stoppage.
Eubank says the long-awaited clash with Benn, which he claims Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Chairman Turki Alalsheikh intends to carry out in early 2025, is now even bigger and that he is in full control, vowing not to meet his with the enemy. catch on weight.
He added: “(When the fight was postponed) I was devastated, I left, so angry, but looking back it was one of the best things that could have happened in my career.
“Now the fight is three times bigger, the salary is four times, all the conditions are on my side, I have no promoters to take a piece of the pie, people are paying me less.
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Eubank Jr. walked to the ring to his usual Dr Dre theme tune and roped Riyad.
“He has no freedom, no power, he has been deprived of all that.
“There is no compromise. The fight is in the middleweight division and it’s take it or leave it and he can’t leave it.”
Eubank Jr. continued.
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“No two fighters had fathers who were world champions and fought in massive fights 30 years ago with the whole country watching.
“Now the two sons have grown up to be elite-level fighters and are preparing to fight. It’s never happened and it won’t happen again, it’s a huge deal.
“Fighting my sworn enemy in a world-wide fight, which could be at Wembley in front of 90,000 people or at the Arena in Saudi Arabia, is a whole different animal.
“It will bring out a beast in him that I cannot take lightly. I think it’s going to be wild, one of the best British boxing fights that world boxing has seen for quite some time because it’s real. This is not a formality.
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“Our fathers have the history, we now have the history. There is much in the chain: money, pride, heritage, protecting the names of our fathers, the names of our families. So much goes into this fight.”
“It was talked about (with Turki Alalshikh) in my dressing room before I went out to fight Kamil. He couldn’t even wait until the fight was over to tell me this was what he wanted.
“He wants Conor Benn in February or May and that’s all he cares about. He’s very interested in that fight, which puts me in an amazing position.”
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