{"id":54412,"date":"2025-04-27T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54412\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:32:09","slug":"hes-a-brave-man-declan-rice-leaves-sky-sports-commentator-shocked-at-chris-eubank-jr-vs-conor-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54412\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He’s a brave man’ – Declan Rice leaves Sky Sports commentator shocked at Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"

DECLAN RICE was lauded for his bravery for going behind enemy lines to watch Chris Eubank Jr’s epic clash with Conor Benn.<\/p>\n

The Arsenal<\/a> and England midfielder was just one of several stars in attendance for the Brit classic on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn went to war for 12 rounds at the Tottenham Hotspur StadiumCredit: REUTERS\"Declan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Declan Rice had one of the best seats in the house, along with England team-mate Ollie WatkinsCredit: GETTY\"Marcus<\/a><\/p>\n

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Marcus Rashford was also in attendance and sat next to RiceCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

The middleweight match-up was staged in front of a packed crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> Stadium – the home of the Gunners’ sworn enemies.<\/p>\n

And his entering of enemy territory for non-footballing reasons was pointed out by one of the commentators, who said: “He’ a brave man, Declan Rice<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Rice was joined at the fight by England<\/a> team-mates Marcus Rashford<\/a>, who had missed Aston Villa’s FA Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace earlier in the day through injury, and Ollie Watkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the Gunners midfielder revealed he was on Team Benn before the domestic dust-up got underway, telling talkSPORT<\/a>: “I want Conor Benn<\/a> to win.<\/p>\n

“I like Eubank, but I know Tony Sims, I know Conor, so I’m here supporting them to that.”<\/p>\n

Rice then ruled out ever setting foot inside the ring, saying: “No chance.<\/p>\n

“It takes a serious man to be on their own getting in that ring under 60,000 fans or so.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I’ll be able to do that, but I’m sticking to football<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Rice had one of the best seats in the house as Eubank Jr and Benn went toe-to-toe for 12 rounds in their Spurs slugfest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eubank Jr<\/a> edged the contest via decision, with all three judges turning in 116-112 scorecards.<\/p>\n

Conor Benn reveals what Chris Eubank Sr said to him in ring after Chris Eubank Jr fight<\/p>\n

Before being transported to the hospital, Eubank Jr, 35, said of his epic win: “I knew I was capable of that. I just needed someone to bring that out of me.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not going to lie, I did not expect that he\u2019d be the guy to do that.<\/p>\n

“But the fact that our fathers did what they did all those years ago, it brings out a different soul, a different spirit.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s what we both showed here tonight. I pushed through.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a lot of things that have been going on in my life that I\u2019m not going to get into right now.<\/p>\n

“But I\u2019m happy to have (my father) back with me.<\/p>\n

“We upheld the family name like we said we were going to do. Onwards and upwards from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DECLAN RICE was lauded for his bravery for going behind enemy lines to watch Chris Eubank Jr’s epic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[161,1935,21609,21610,2920,8310,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-54412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-chris-eubank-jr","11":"tag-conor-benn","12":"tag-declan-rice","13":"tag-section-sportboxing","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409239069002219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54412","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=54412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}