{"id":682357,"date":"2026-07-09T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682357\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:27:08","slug":"former-world-champion-willing-to-end-four-years-out-the-ring-to-face-chris-eubank-jr-i-will-fight-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682357\/","title":{"rendered":"Former world champion willing to end four years out the ring to face Chris Eubank Jr: “I will fight him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> is expected to return before the end of the year as he seeks to bounce back from a one-sided defeat to Conor Benn<\/a>, and now a former world champion who has not fought in over four years has confirmed his interest in the clash.<\/p>\n

Hampered by the weight limit and rehydration clause, Eubank continued his family\u2019s success over the Benns with a decision triumph over his cross-generational rival last April, replicating the efforts of his father, Eubank Sr, who trumped Nigel Benn 35 years prior.<\/p>\n

However, in the rematch back in November, Eubank Jr looked a shadow of himself as he was comprehensively outboxed and outfought by Benn, reaching the final bell by the skin of his teeth before a lopsided verdict was formally confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then, Eubank Jr has shunned the idea of retirement and has instead been linked to a catchweight affair with Australia\u2019s Michael Zerafa, who signed with Matchroom Boxing last week and announced an August appearance on the Teremoana Teremoana vs. DeAndre Savage undercard in Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whilst that contest may be presumably planned to tee up a scrap between Eubank and Zerafa at the end of the year<\/a>, former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook told Boxing King Media<\/a> that he would be willing to come out of retirement and take on his fellow Briton, if the offer is fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely, [I am retired unless the right offer comes along]. If the right offer comes, I will fight. We have got history, me and Chris Eubank Jnr.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe offer still stands, if we can be sensible and they can give me what I am worth, then that fight can happen. If it doesn\u2019t, I am happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brook hasn\u2019t fought since his stoppage win over bitter rival Amir Khan back in February 2022, after a career which saw him also share the ring with the likes of Terence Crawford, Gennady Golovkin, Errol Spence and Shawn Porter.<\/p>\n

As for Eubank Jr, he continues to claim that he is a free agent, but Boxxer\u2019s Ben Shalom has maintained that he has a contract in place with the polarising middleweight<\/a> and that he will be promoting his next fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr is expected to return before the end of the year as he seeks to bounce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682357","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\/682357","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=682357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}