Conor Benn put on a dominant performance to earn revenge over bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr and seal a unanimous decision victory in their rematch at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n
Eubank, who won on points when they first fought in April, looked shot-shy throughout and had no answer to a heavy-handed Benn.<\/p>\n
Benn held a wide lead going into the final round when he put Eubank down twice before triumphantly stepping up on to the ropes to celebrate when the final bell rang.<\/p>\n
The judges scored it 119-107, 116-110 and 118-108 in Benn’s favour.<\/p>\n
“This is the end of the Benn-Eubank saga, over. Chris has twins coming and I have my boy, but this ends here,” Benn said.<\/p>\n
“Everyone says I can’t box, put that in your pipe and smoke it.<\/p>\n
“This wouldn’t have been what it was without Chris. Our dads most of all, this is generational, never been done before in history. Credit to Chris, thank you for sharing the ring with me.”<\/p>\n
He has been labelled as a brawler throughout his career but proved he has a lot more to offer in sealing this win.<\/p>\n
After moving up two divisions to make this fight happen, achieved something his father Nigel was unable to do in the 1990s – earning victory against a Eubank.<\/p>\n
“Not bad for two silver spoon kids!,” Benn said, in a reference to both fighters growing up with famous dads.<\/p>\n
“I fancy [Mario] Barrios for the WBC world title, Ryan Garcia, [Rolly] Romero, Devin Haney, all of them can get it. Any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.”<\/p>\n
Benn, 29, said he carried too much emotion into April’s fight following a prolonged two-and-a-half-year build-up after serving a ban for failing a voluntary doping test.<\/p>\n
But he looked much more composed this time, returning with a smarter plan, mixing raw aggression with carefully selected shots to systematically break 36-year-old Eubank down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Benn put on a dominant performance to earn revenge over bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr and seal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-265129","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\/265129","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=265129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}