By Jim Calfa: Chris Eubank Jr.’s promoter, Kalle Sauerland, has confirmed that the fight with Conor Benn is still on for October 8 at London’s O2 Arena.
Sauerland says he doesn’t want to speak for Chris Eubank, who on Monday spoke of wanting to take his son Eubank Jr out of the fight because of the 157-pound catchweight.
Kalle notes that Eubank Jr. is under contract to fight Benn (21-0, 14 KOs), and the fight will go ahead. Chris Jr is already training to prepare to fight the young upstart Benn in his fight on DAZN pay-per-view.
Sauerland further claims that this was not a move on his part to increase the weight from 157 to 160, nor was it a ploy to remove the rehydration clause.
“My son’s life cannot be put in danger. I’ve already lost one. It can’t happen again,” Chris Eubank told the Dailymail.
I have given you my address. If you don’t want to follow him, he will be dragged. But he will do what is right for him.”
“I am not going to comment on the major’s comments. That’s for the eldest to do. I’m just going to talk about the boxing event, and that event is booked and it’s going to take place on October 8 at The O2,” promoter Kalle Sauerland told iFL TV of the Chris Eubank Jr vs. Conor Benn fight.
“Junior is training and he was training yesterday. We are very excited about a great event on October 8th.
“Your comments were made to a journalist yesterday. I wasn’t there. I don’t know how they were made. My phone blew up yesterday, but everything works as usual. We have a contract, and Junior is very excited about the fight.
“No, because he’s contracted,” Sauerland said when asked if this was a strategy to bring the fight weight to 160 or remove the rehydration clause, negatively affecting Eubank Jr.
“Once the contracts are done, it’s done, and I haven’t been asked to do that, and I’ve never seen it before. In fact, if the 157 is not made, there are penalties. Then it turns into a financial discussion.
“It was a relatively long negotiation period, and the peso was addressed very early in that negotiation. It wasn’t the weight that stopped him. It was other things,” Sauerland said.
