{"id":189716,"date":"2025-06-16T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189716\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:12:10","slug":"eubank-jr-vs-benn-2-harlem-eubank-says-cousin-should-fight-canelo-alvarez-then-retire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189716\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank Jr vs Benn 2: Harlem Eubank says cousin should fight ‘Canelo’ Alvarez then retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harlem Eubank would prefer his cousin, Chris Eubank Jr, to chase a legacy-defining fight against Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez rather than revisit his rivalry with Conor Benn.<\/b><\/p>\n

The unbeaten welterweight says if Eubank Jr does fight Benn again, however, the weight discrepancy between the two Britons must be addressed. <\/p>\n

Eubank Jr outpointed Benn in a grudge match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April<\/a>, more than two years after their original 2022 bout was cancelled due to Benn’s failed drug tests.<\/p>\n

A two-fight deal was in place, but Harlem is unsure whether a rematch will materialise.<\/p>\n

“There’s obviously a lot of money there for it, so potentially,” he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“But Chris is 35 now and I’d like to see him take the Canelo fight and sail into the sunset.<\/p>\n

“It’s hard, because all the big opportunities come near the end of a career and there’s always a fishhook dangling to keep you there, but I’d rather see him take the biggest fight in the sport and bow out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlem Eubank would prefer his cousin, Chris Eubank Jr, to chase a legacy-defining fight against Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694635024861190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}