{"id":263702,"date":"2025-11-15T04:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263702\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:49:13","slug":"chris-eubank-jr-vs-conor-benn-rematch-could-mark-final-chapter-of-35-year-rivalry-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263702\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn rematch could mark final chapter of 35-year rivalry | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank Jr against Conor Benn for the second time this year is the next part of a family feud that’s lasted 35 years.<\/p>\n

Their fathers, Chris and Nigel, may have had a bitter rivalry back in the 90s, but they managed smiles and an awkward hug at the final news conference this week.<\/p>\n

Their two boys don’t like each other, even though they ended up metres apart in hospital beds after 12 brutal rounds in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

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\n Chris Eubank Jr says his father, ex-boxer Chris Eubank, wants him to quit<\/p>\n

\"Conor<\/p>\n

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\n Conor Benn says Eubank Jr is ‘still not my cup of tea, but there is a respect there’<\/p>\n

Speaking about the April bout, Conor Benn<\/a> said it left him nauseous – but for his dad, it was all about emotion.<\/p>\n

“I was throwing up, feeling sick in hospital. I can’t remember what my dad said, but Senior was just emotional. He was like ‘why are you putting yourself through this? Like to both [of us]: ‘Why are you guys doing this?’<\/p>\n

“He was really upset because we were both in hospital. But we love this, this is what we do, this is what we are.”<\/p>\n

For Eubank Jr<\/a>, dehydration was the biggest issue and the worst was over “after a day or so”.<\/p>\n

\"Eubank<\/p>\n

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\n Eubank Jr (right) lands a punch on Benn. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

“I was hooked up to drips and they had to just replenish my body over a day or two. But, listen, this is what we sign up for. We’re fighters.”<\/p>\n

His father was against the first fight because of the dangers to his son, the bigger man, dropping down to the 160lb weight limit and the dehydration involved.<\/p>\n

In a dramatic late U-turn, he joined in the ring walk, stealing the show.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

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\n Chris Eubank Jr (L) won by unanimous decision after going the full 12 rounds at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Pic: Sky Sports<\/p>\n

\"Pic:<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

Chris Eubank Junior said his father “still found it in himself and in his heart to come and support his son on the biggest night of his life, which meant a lot. It meant everything.<\/p>\n

“This time round, to be completely honest with you, he is still against the fight. He wants me to retire.”<\/p>\n

The contest healed a long-running rift between father and son and put another Eubank win on the board.<\/p>\n

But both men left everything in the ring that night and Conor Benn says putting the weight of the family names aside, there is respect there.<\/p>\n

“I ain’t got to like him, still not my cup of tea, but there is a respect there of course, because he brought out a fight in me. I brought out a fight in him.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

“When you’ve both shed blood, you are both in hospital together, gave people the fight of the year, how can you not respect the man?”<\/p>\n

So they go again at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with another reported \u00a318m purse on the line.<\/p>\n

There’s less emotion this time in perhaps the final chapter of a famous boxing rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr against Conor Benn for the second time this year is the next part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-263702","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263702","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=263702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}