The hostility between Eubank and Benn is not manufactured. Benn is like me – he is emotionally charged and driven. For Eubank, it is business. He does not care.<\/p>\n
These two will have become fond of each other now. When you share a fight like they did, you get respect for each other.<\/p>\n
But that respect will go out the window this week. A line will be crossed because they need to do that to get in the right mindset.<\/p>\n
Certain things will get said this week to wind each other up. They have family names and their own personal ambitions at stake.<\/p>\n
The first fight was unbelievable to watch. It was non-stop from start to finish. These two could have 10 fights and all 10 would be belters.<\/p>\n
I am not saying that Benn or Eubank are Micky Ward or Arturo Gatti, but the recipe they bring when they are put together is fantastic.<\/p>\n
Eubank thinks he is a better boxer than he is and Benn only knows how to fight one way – trying to take his opponent’s head off for every second of every round. <\/p>\n
I had Eubank losing after nine rounds in the first fight. It was tight and he was being outpunched before turning it around in the championship rounds.<\/p>\n
All three judges only gave Benn four rounds, but I think he won at least five. I had Eubank winning by one and some rounds were so close.<\/p>\n
I told Benn he needed to be careful about getting fatigued. I knew he would tire but it was a shock to him.<\/p>\n
Benn could have won if he maintained his output for the full 12 rounds, and he needs to learn from that experience.<\/p>\n
A knockout loss for Benn would be disastrous. A victory for Benn would be a disaster to Eubank – he will have lost to a welterweight.<\/p>\n
Eubank could catch Benn hard and stop him, but the quick turnaround will favour Benn.<\/p>\n
I think he will outwork Eubank and might stop him, but I am edging towards a Benn victory on points in an absolute thriller.<\/p>\n
Tony Bellew was speaking to BBC Sport’s Bobbie Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hostility between Eubank and Benn is not manufactured. Benn is like me – he is emotionally charged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279352","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\/279352","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=279352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}