{"id":657331,"date":"2026-06-25T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657331\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:39:10","slug":"chris-eubank-jr-announces-ring-return-plan-its-a-beautiful-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657331\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr announces ring return plan: &#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful position&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having suffered a one-sided defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/conor-benn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor Benn<\/a> last time out, some British fight fans expected <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/chris-eubank-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> to hang up the gloves, but the 36-year-old has now revealed plans for his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>Eubank defeated Benn in a huge domestic clash in their first meeting, but the roles were reversed in their November rematch, as a weight-drained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cm2e3n57d6mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eubank scrambled to survive until the final bell<\/a> \u2013 before losing a comprehensive unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Benn has since returned to action and outpointed Regis Prograis, seemingly teeing up a shot at the WBC welterweight world title, but Eubank Jr has been relatively quiet, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/chris-eubank-jr-comeback-close\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumoured catchweight clash against Australia\u2019s Michael Zerafa<\/a> being the only murmured fight.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@boxingkingmedia\/video\/7654289047728393494?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing King Media<\/a>, Eubank Jr maintained that he will not be retiring by instead announcing his expectation to fight before the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a free agent, I am not tied down to any one promoter or any one broadcaster. I am free and its a beautiful position to be in. The industry knows this. We have a lot of exciting opportunities and offers to weigh up and pick from and decide which route we want to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in Nigeria, we are half way across the world. There are opportunities here, there are opportunities in America, in England, in Saudi, in the Middle East. It all comes down to what is best for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that I will be back in the ring maybe towards the end of the year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With less than six months left of 2026, Eubank\u2019s return opponent could be announced in the coming months. Australia\u2019s Michael Zerafa, who had said he was in talks with Eubank\u2019s team earlier in the year, still believes he is the frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having suffered a one-sided defeat to Conor Benn last time out, some British fight fans expected Chris Eubank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657331","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=657331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}