{"id":228984,"date":"2025-10-21T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228984\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:13:09","slug":"conor-benn-i-was-one-shot-away-at-any-given-moment-from-knocking-out-chris-eubank-jr-i-just-got-greedy-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228984\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn: I was one shot away at any given moment from knocking out Chris Eubank Jr – I just got greedy | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn remains convinced he should have beaten Chris Eubank Jr in their first fight.<\/p>\n

Benn and Eubank Jr, the sons of great rivals Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr, fought through a barnstorming 12 rounds at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April.<\/p>\n

Eubank prevailed with a unanimous decision victory, but Benn was left thinking he should have won the fight.<\/p>\n

“I know I was hurting him because he looked vulnerable in there. He looked like he was one shot away at any given moment. But I never thought in my head [during the fight]: ‘Have I won that round, how many rounds have I won?’ I was so consumed by violence,” Benn told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

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\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Eubank Jr says he’s ‘fresh and hungry’ ahead of his rematch with Conor Benn and gives his opponent credit for his performance in their first fight. <\/p>\n

“I actually thought I was genuinely going to knock him out. I was so close, and I just got greedy in there. It’s the lack of discipline. I’m more disappointed in myself for the lack of discipline than anything else.<\/p>\n

“He came out strong in the last three rounds. When they announced he’d won, he’s fallen to the floor, he’s shocked. I thought I had won the fight.”<\/p>\n

Benn believes he controlled the fight overall, suggesting it was just his own recklessness that cost him the result.<\/p>\n

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\"Benn<\/p>\n

Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn shared an intense face-off ahead of their rematch in November. <\/p>\n

He explained: “I felt like I was dictating the pace, I was landing the more powerful shots, the more damaging shots, the more eye-catching shots. You’ve got to give him rounds 11 and 12 but I felt in the moment I’d won the fight.<\/p>\n

“But then again his work rate, he had good work rate. They weren’t damaging shots. They were messy shots, he made it messy. He used his weight well but – listen – I wouldn’t say it was a robbery, it was too close to call anyway.<\/p>\n

“But my lack of discipline gave it away.”<\/p>\n

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\"Eubank<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Toe-2-Toe podcast, Conor Benn says that he was ‘too emotional’ heading into the first fight with Chris Eubank Jr and explains the gameplan for the rematch. <\/p>\n

Eubank and Benn will rematch in Totteham once again on November 15.<\/p>\n

Benn is adamant that he still managed to make a statement in their first fight.<\/p>\n

“It was more a matter of just proving something to myself,” Benn said. “A lot of people talk and when it comes down to it they fold and they buckle. They can’t handle it.<\/p>\n

“For me this fight was that moment where it was – are you actually about it? Can you actually do this? Are you who you say you are? For me that’s what that fight was.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn remains convinced he should have beaten Chris Eubank Jr in their first fight. Benn and Eubank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-228984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}