{"id":747187,"date":"2026-08-23T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747187\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:04:08","slug":"billy-joe-saunders-predicts-chris-eubank-jr-vs-kell-brook-as-comeback-confirmed-he-beats-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747187\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joe Saunders predicts Chris Eubank Jr vs Kell Brook as comeback confirmed: “He beats him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former two-weight world champion Billy Joe Saunders<\/a> has offered his thoughts on a mooted clash between Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> and Kell Brook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There has been mounting speculation since Brook, a former world champion himself, announced earlier this month that he will make a comeback to professional boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old has not fought since 2022, back when he scored a sixth-round finish over Amir Khan in their long-overdue welterweight encounter.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Brook has insisted that he will be campaigning at either middle or super-middleweight, where Eubank is expected to compete in his next outing.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old has not fought since last November, when he suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Conor Benn<\/a> after winning their first encounter by the same verdict.<\/p>\n

With both contests being fought at 160lbs, though, Eubank was clearly drained on the scales and has since been linked with super-middleweight fights against the likes of Edgar Berlanga and Michael Zerafa.<\/p>\n

Equally, the Brightonian could end up facing Brook later this year, with Saunders telling talkSPORT<\/a> that he would favour the Sheffield technician.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gotta be realistic and put myself amongst the people that you look at and think, \u2018They\u2019ve got a bit of an age\u2019. [Like] Chris Eubank. They\u2019re not any good, [or] they\u2019re not technically [good].<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Kell Brook beats him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given his rivalry with Eubank, and the fact he used to train with Brook, it is hardly surprising that Saunders has backed his former gymmate.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the 36-year-old has expressed his interest in a potential rematch with Eubank<\/a>, who he outpointed by split decision in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-weight world champion Billy Joe Saunders has offered his thoughts on a mooted clash between Chris Eubank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747187","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\/747187","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=747187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}