Even if Conor Benn goes on to win a world title, it still might not be as satisfying or career-defining as his revenge over bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr in a dominant, unanimous points win on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Revenge was sweet for Benn (24-1, 14 KOs), who floored Eubank (35-4, 25 KOs) twice in the final round to seal victory by unanimous scores of 119-107, 116-110 and 118-108 in the non-title middleweight bout.<\/p>\n
Benn, 29, capitalised on a sluggish and subdued performance from Eubank to avenge a unanimous points defeat to Eubank Jr seven months ago, after their fathers twice fought each other in epic world title fights in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
Eubank, 36, from Brighton, lacked the energy, variation of punches and explosiveness of their first fight. Benn’s domination meant as a contest it lacked the drama when they last fought, until a brilliant finish.<\/p>\n
Benn floored Eubank first with a straight left, then followed up with a barrage of blows before a right sent a rocky Eubank down again. Eubank beat the count but he knew the fight was lost.<\/p>\n
Take a look at how the whole card unfolded here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even if Conor Benn goes on to win a world title, it still might not be as satisfying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-287463","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\/287463","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=287463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}