{"id":142175,"date":"2025-11-16T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:19:08","slug":"eubank-vs-benn-2-tony-bellew-carl-frampton-50-cent-oscar-de-la-hoya-react-to-conor-benns-win-over-chris-eubank-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142175\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank vs Benn 2: Tony Bellew, Carl Frampton, 50 Cent & Oscar De La Hoya react to Conor Benn’s win over Chris Eubank Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank Jr’s rematch defeat to Conor Benn may be the time to retire, according to former boxers Carl Frampton and Barry Jones.<\/p>\n

Eubank, 36, was beaten unanimously by Benn<\/a> at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, seven months on from Eubank’s victory in the first meeting between the two.<\/p>\n

All three judges scored the fight convincingly in favour of Benn with Eubank struggling to even challenge his rival, months after beating him.<\/p>\n

“It was a great performance from Conor, but this might be the time to call it a day for Chris,” retired world champion Frampton told DAZN.<\/p>\n

“I’m not trying to be harsh, I’m just being honest.”<\/p>\n

Former WBO super-featherweight champion Jones echoed Frampton’s sentiment, pointing to Eubank’s struggles throughout fight.<\/p>\n

“I do think it should be the end for Chris,” said Jones on DAZN.<\/p>\n

“It was evidence from round one that he was flat. It could be weight or it could be wear and tear, I think it’s the latter.<\/p>\n

“We should give all the credit to Conor Benn, but there were opportunities for Chris to pull the trigger. <\/p>\n

“He didn’t throw his punches from round one. He was quite lethargic.”<\/p>\n

Lightweight world champion Shakur Stevenson, who has won belts in multiple weights, said Eubank was clearly “weight drained”.<\/p>\n

Eubank has fought most of his recent career at middleweight but was restricted by a rehydration clause on fight day<\/a> that prevented him from putting more than 10lbs.<\/p>\n

Boxing legend turned promoter Oscar De La Hoya also defended Eubank’s performance.<\/p>\n

“Let me give you a little tutorial on boxing,” he said on X. <\/p>\n

“Eubank never had a chance due weight drain.”<\/p>\n

Coach and former boxer Paul Smith said before the fight he felt it was a step too far for Eubank but praised the Briton for a “great career”.<\/p>\n

“People who always seemed to dislike or hate him ended up growing to love him in the end. Like his dad,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr’s rematch defeat to Conor Benn may be the time to retire, according to former boxers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-142175","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\/142175","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=142175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}