{"id":188265,"date":"2025-10-09T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:47:07","slug":"hall-of-fame-legend-wants-to-face-conor-benn-after-chris-eubank-jr-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188265\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame Legend Wants To Face Conor Benn After Chris Eubank Jr Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Benn<\/a> could find himself in a huge fight after his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Benn is looking to avenge the points defeat he suffered in the first fight between the two generational rivals back in April.<\/p>\n

It was a hard-fought and close 12-round battle which saw more than two years of heated build-up, verbal back and forth, egg slaps, fines and failed drug tests all get settled in the ring.<\/p>\n

Eubank, as the naturally bigger man, used his size well to impose himself on Benn, who had stepped up from his usual welterweight class.<\/p>\n

They are set to do it all again at the same place, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, on Saturday 15 November<\/a>, when Benn will meet Eubank at middleweight, and again \u2018Jr\u2019 will be restricted in how much he can put on after the weight-in and before the first bell.<\/p>\n

Once the fight is out of the way, Eubank has mentioned he would be keen on a fight with three-division undisputed king Terence Crawford, and Benn has made it clear he wants a world title.<\/p>\n

However, speaking to Inside The Ring on DAZN,<\/a> boxing writer Mike Coppinger revealed that Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has mentioned Benn as a possible opponent for one of his future fights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to Pacquiao\u2019s adviser Sean Gibbons who also runs his promotional company, he says the three names they are looking at are Rolly Romero, Gervonta \u2018Tank\u2019 Davis and Conor Benn. Those are the fights for Manny right now, whether they are the first or the second fight, those are the guys he\u2019s looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, Pacquiao is believed to be close to securing a deal to fight Rolly Romero in early 2026.<\/a> He is now 46 six and a former eight-division world champion who came out of retirement back in July and fought to a draw with Mario Barrios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn could find himself in a huge fight after his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr. Benn is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-188265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}