{"id":780024,"date":"2026-09-23T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780024\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:54:08","slug":"tony-bellew-can-only-see-one-winner-in-conor-benn-vs-chris-eubank-jr-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew can only see one winner in Conor Benn vs Chris Eubank Jr trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on their first two encounters, Tony Bellew<\/a> finds it impossible to go against one man in a potential trilogy showdown between Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> and Conor Benn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two British rivals collided in April 2025, around two-and-a-half years after their match was cancelled due to Benn testing positive for banned substance clomifene.<\/p>\n

Back then, the pair had agreed to a catchweight of 157lbs whereas, this time around, Eubank was afforded the chance to compete at middleweight.<\/p>\n

There were, however, increasing doubts that he still belonged at 160lbs and, on top of that, Eubank was financially incentivised to keep below 170lbs on the morning of fight night.<\/p>\n

Yet despite the rehydration clause, the former world title challenger unanimously outpointed Benn<\/a> in one of the best fights of 2025.<\/p>\n

With the same weight stipulations in place, Benn then ended up winning their rematch by a much wider margin in November, with Eubank even suffering two 12th-round knockdowns.<\/p>\n

As a result, former world champion Bellew cannot see past a repeat of proceedings the third time around, telling Fight Your Corner<\/a> that he would heavily favour Benn in a rubber match.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rematch was so one-sided \u2013 you can\u2019t not say Conor [wins the trilogy]. How can you predict [in favour of] Eubank after that fight?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was at his best in the first fight, Conor still took him to the absolute well.\u201d<\/p>\n

While nothing is set in stone, there has, indeed, been talk of a third Eubank fight following Benn\u2019s second-round stoppage defeat to Ryan Garcia<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

In any case, the 29-year-old is likely to move up in weight after being somewhat exposed at the upper echelon of 147lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on their first two encounters, Tony Bellew finds it impossible to go against one man in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780024","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\/780024","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=780024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}