{"id":325097,"date":"2025-08-07T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325097\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:54:09","slug":"chris-eubank-sr-names-the-one-fight-that-makes-sense-for-his-son-and-its-not-conor-benn-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325097\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Sr Names The One Fight That ‘Makes Sense’ For His Son And It’s Not Conor Benn Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank<\/a> Sr has always been a stickler for weight divisions and has again told his son to swerve a second fight with Conor Benn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eubank Sr always maintained that he did not want to see these generational rivals come to blows in the ring because of the weight situation regarding the two. It led to a feud with his son, which was apparently only resolved in the hours before the pair first fought in April and made for a dramatic moment when they arrived at the stadium together just ahead of the first bell.<\/p>\n

Eubank Jr came out on top with a points win<\/a> after a brutal 12 rounds, and now the rematch has been confirmed for later in the year, in the same weight class and with the same rehydration clause on the day of the fight.<\/p>\n

However, Eubank Sr appears to have stuck with his previous feelings that his son should pursue another fight, namely Canelo<\/a> Alvarez. In a YouTube clip uploaded this week titled \u2018The Eubank fight I would back,\u2019<\/a> Senior calls for the fight to happen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs much as we want to see a Canelo against a Crawford, the weights are wrong and so it cannot happen. The fight you should be looking for is a Chris Eubank Jr against a Canelo. That makes sense, that I would back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite the father\u2019s late involvement in the spectacle fight, he has always been against a rematch, even advising his son to retire. Though proud of the first performance, Eubank Sr has drawn on Junior\u2019s time in the hospital post-fight after a tough weight cut as a reason against the second fight on the same terms, calling on the British Boxing Board of Control to step in.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the protestations, former two-weight undisputed champion Crawford is indeed stepping up a couple of divisions to take on undisputed super-middleweight ruler Canelo in a marquee fight in September, and his son will be fighting Benn again in Novembe<\/a>r, though a fight with the Mexican great remains an option should he win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Sr has always been a stickler for weight divisions and has again told his son to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325097","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\/114987352973081025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325097","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=325097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}