{"id":7259,"date":"2025-07-20T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:26:08","slug":"eubank-vs-benn-eddie-hearn-claims-chris-eubank-jr-and-conor-benn-rematch-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7259\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank vs Benn: Eddie Hearn claims Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn rematch is “dead”"},"content":{"rendered":"

He told BBC Sport: “We signed a two-fight deal, we were ready to go. The date was announced straight after the first fight for September, done a lot of negotiations in terms of venues, dates. <\/p>\n

“They had all agreed September 20th, then Eubank came out and said he wasn’t ready.”<\/p>\n

Asked if Benn was prepared to wait until the end of the year, Hearn added: “So we have to give them a chance.<\/p>\n

“We just appeal to Eubank, if you’re not ready to go back to war with Benn and you’d rather sit at a poker table in Las Vegas, good luck to you. But let us move on.”<\/p>\n

“We’re ready to move on, drop down to 147 and get a world title,” said Benn.<\/p>\n

The first fight was organised by Ring Magazine, which is owned by Turki Alalshikh, and it was thought the rematch would also fall under the Riyadh Season promotion.<\/p>\n

Appearing on Saturday’s broadcast before Oleksandr Usyk’s win over Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium, Alalshikh said the Eubank-Benn bout could still happen and suggested January or February as potential alternative dates.<\/p>\n

Eubank has not commented on the situation himself, and it is unclear when an official decision will be made.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old was fined \u00a310,000<\/a> earlier this month by the British Boxing Board of Control over “misuse of social media” in the build-up to the first contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He told BBC Sport: “We signed a two-fight deal, we were ready to go. The date was announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}