{"id":721181,"date":"2026-07-31T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721181\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:58:08","slug":"ko-artist-who-fought-canelo-sets-his-sights-on-chris-eubank-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721181\/","title":{"rendered":"KO artist who fought Canelo sets his sights on Chris Eubank Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> has not fought since his underwhelming rematch with Conor Benn, but the 36-year-old is now being targeted by a fierce knockout artist, who is willing to travel to London for the opportunity to face him.<\/p>\n

Eubank scored an iconic win over Benn last April but when they rematched seven months later, he felt the full effects of a brutal weight cut, narrowly avoiding a stoppage defeat as he survived until the final bell on unsteady legs only to lose a wide unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Since then, the Hove-born contender has been advised to move up in weight and return to the super-middleweight scene, but he has also been linked to a catchweight clash with Michael Zerafa in Australia<\/a> \u2013 a bout which would take place at 164lbs.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s Edgar Berlanga has now thrown his hat into the ring though, after revealing on \u2018The Last Stand\u2019 podcast<\/a> about his intentions to face Eubank before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to step into the ring to end the year with Chris Eubank Jr. I feel like that fight is going to be a big fight in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told Keith [Connolly], I said that I would rather not do it out here in America. I would rather go to London, where he is from [U.K.], you know what I am saying? We can make a big, big fight happen. He is on the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berlanga\u2019s most high profile fight came back in 2024 when he challenged Canelo Alvarez for his unified super-middleweight crown, suffering a unanimous decision defeat, one of two losses in his career after also coming up short against Hamzah Sheeraz.<\/p>\n

He has since signed with Zuffa Boxing and in his debut with the company on Sunday he knocked Steven Butler out after seven rounds, recovering from a second-round knockdown to earn the 19th stoppage victory of his career.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Ring<\/a>, Berlanga has now doubled down on his call-out of Eubank, hoping he can convince the Briton to swerve the Zerafa fight in favour of a clash on home soil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting a real big fight with Chris Eubank. Let\u2019s do it in London. It\u2019s going to be big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eubank maintains that he is currently a free agent<\/a>, but it is unclear whether he is still contracted to Boxxer, with promoter Ben Shalom appearing to believe that their deal has not expired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr has not fought since his underwhelming rematch with Conor Benn, but the 36-year-old is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721181","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\/721181","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=721181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}