{"id":139530,"date":"2025-11-14T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139530\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:00:07","slug":"eubank-vs-benn-2-both-fighters-make-weight-for-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139530\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank vs Benn 2: Both fighters make weight for rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just as when Eubank and Benn fought in April, there is a rehydration clause that both must adhere to &#8211; meaning neither man can put on more than 10lb between Friday&#8217;s weigh-in and Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benn&#8217;s team feel the rehydration clause allows for a more level playing field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weight disparity, with Benn jumping up two divisions for this contest, has been a hot topic in the build-up to both fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April, Eubank missed the middleweight limit of 11st 6lb by 0.05lb at the weigh-in- but came in comfortably below the rehydration limit the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fighters usually shed fat over the course of their training camp to get close to the agreed or stipulated weight limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to the weigh-in, which takes place a day before fight night, they may dehydrate to lose the final bit of weight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Losing water weight close to the fight allows them to refuel with food and water much more easily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eubank says he usually puts on about 14lb after a weigh-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as when Eubank and Benn fought in April, there is a rehydration clause that both must adhere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-139530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}