Looks as if “crunch time” could have produced outcomes for as soon as, as Mike Coppinger studies that Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn are “finalizing” an April twenty sixth showdown in London.
It’s been over two years since Benn (23-0, 14 KO) infamously failed a drug take a look at within the buildup to their deliberate assembly, kicking off a prolonged battle with the BBBofC and UKAD. Talks have began and stopped greater than as soon as in that span, and whereas there’s motive to imagine this one has legs after Tris Dixon corroborated Coppinger’s story, there’s not a lot trigger for pleasure.
This reeks of cashing out on Benn, who’s regarded mediocre in his final two fights and has spent the final yr making an attempt and failing to snag a significant welterweight combat. Coppinger studies that the combat will happen at middleweight versus the initially deliberate catchweight. I don’t purchase Eubank Sr’s bloviating about “security” in any respect, particularly because the IBF’s 10-pound rehydration restrict continues to be in play; Eubank Jr (34-3, 25 KO) has publicly acknowledged that he doesn’t minimize a lot weight and proved he might make the proposed restrict simply. This can be a assertion that Benn not has any leverage.
I’d make some remark about how a minimum of this complete saga might be over and Eubank might be free to lastly attempt to make an actual run at 160, however everyone knows that’s not a precedence for him.
