Rather than think of Benn, the Sunderland man now had other things on his mind. Now he had some rebuilding to do and a comeback to plan. In the meantime, Benn, still unbeaten, continued to win, invariably by knockout, and continued to grow his profile. Soon, in fact, there was a sense that Benn had overtaken Kelly, if only commercially. This thought was then solidified when Chris Eubank Jnr, a middleweight, expressed an interest in fighting Benn in 2022, after which everything changed – for a variety of reasons.
