{"id":2962,"date":"2025-07-17T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2962\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:15:09","slug":"chris-eubank-jr-v-conor-benn-eddie-hearn-says-september-rematch-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2962\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn: Eddie Hearn says September rematch unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearn told IFL TV: “We’ve said to Eubank that is the date. And if you don’t take the fight on that date, the fight doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

“There are no stadiums available. Commercially you guys are on a fortune. So if Eubank is not prepared to take the fight on September 20, I don’t think there will be a fight. That’s not my decision, that’s a decision of [Alalshikh].<\/p>\n

“Eubank probably can’t be bothered to go back into camp. I’m not sure if he’ll ever fight again.<\/p>\n

“I just got the feeling he just don’t want it.”<\/p>\n

The April fight took place 35 years after their legendary fathers – Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn – first fought, and garnered huge attention despite no title being on the line.<\/p>\n

The build-up to the bout, which took place at the middleweight limit of 160lb, was dominated by weight cut and rehydration clauses.<\/p>\n

Hearn previously told BBC Sport that Benn would not entertain<\/a> new weight terms for a rematch.<\/p>\n

Eubank, 35, missed weight, incurring a \u00a3375,000 fine, but was then under the 10lb rehydration limit on the day of the fight.<\/p>\n

He was hospitalised for two days after his win because of dehydration.<\/p>\n

This month Eubank was fined \u00a310,000<\/a> by the British Boxing Board of Control over “misuse of social media” in the build-up to the fight.<\/p>\n

Eubank posted several videos of his weight-cutting process, which implied the use of a sauna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearn told IFL TV: “We’ve said to Eubank that is the date. And if you don’t take the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}