{"id":53422,"date":"2025-04-27T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53422\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T00:27:07","slug":"conor-benn-rematch-with-eubank-jr-or-title-fight-vs-barrios-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53422\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn: Rematch with Eubank Jr or title fight vs Barrios next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"40odyZ\">Conor Benn may have gained more respect and popularity in defeat against Chris Eubank Jr than he has for any of his 23 wins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2025\/4\/26\/24417809\/chris-eubank-jr-outlasts-conor-benn-in-thrilling-grudge-match-war-boxing-news-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coming up short with a tremendously brave and hard-fought effort<\/a> against a naturally bigger man, in what turned out to be a fight even greater than its promoters likely figured.<\/p>\n<p id=\"vz8JDV\">Benn didn\u2019t complain of a robbery or anything, sounding disappointed, which you would expect of someone who came up short giving that sort of effort.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lxEAat\">\u201cI felt like it was a close fight. I\u2019ve got to watch it back, I know it was close. I stayed on the ropes maybe a bit too long, and he worked harder towards the end. I\u2019m gonna have to watch it back, but I enjoyed it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7y8CsJ\">Benn (23-1, 14 KO) said that the pre-fight talk didn\u2019t mean anything once the bell sounded, and that he knew Eubank (35-3, 25 KO) was a good fighter and a tough challenge going in.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ulSFOw\">He also said that he\u2019d love to do the rematch immediately at 160, but if it\u2019s not there, he\u2019ll go back to 147 and target Mario Barrios and the WBC title.<\/p>\n<p id=\"q26DNs\">\u201cWe always knew Chris is a good fighter. I mean all the fighting talk is fighting talk. He\u2019s a good fighter,\u201d Benn said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"exc90f\">\u201cI believe I can fight at 160. If we don\u2019t do the rematch \u2014 which I\u2019d love to avenge that loss \u2014 then we\u2019ll go back down to welterweight and win the WBC world title. It\u2019s either Mario Barrios or the rematch with Eubank. Whatever happens next, I\u2019ll be content with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn may have gained more respect and popularity in defeat against Chris Eubank Jr than he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[10520,28504,28501,1935,28500,28502,10175,163,10522,21368,10521,2583,6699,4494,79,28503,16,15,6691,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-53422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bad","9":"tag-barrios","10":"tag-benn","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-conor","13":"tag-eubank","14":"tag-fight","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-hook","17":"tag-jr","18":"tag-left","19":"tag-next","20":"tag-or","21":"tag-rematch","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-title","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-vs","27":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114407095889427493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422","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=53422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}