By Barry Segal: Promoter Kalle Sauerland says the fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn is still “absolutely on track” for Oct. 8 even though Eubank Jr’s father, Chris Sr, has said he will kick him out of the fight. fight due to a catchweight of 157 pounds. .
Sauerland says the contract is with Eubank Jr (32-2, 23 KOs), not his father Chris Eubank, who wants his son out of the fight.
With the money the 32-year-old Eubank Jr will make for his fight against welterweight Conor Benn (21-0, 14 KOs), it’s quite understandable that he won’t walk away from this fight.
“The fight is absolutely on,” Kalle Sauerland told talkSPORT. “That’s all I can really say. I have seen that it came from a comment to a journalist, which of course, spread like wildfire. The fight is very much on.
“We do not have a contract with Chris Eubank Sr; we have a contract with Chris Eubank Jr.
The chances of Benn’s career collapsing once his promoter Eddie Hearn takes his training wheels off him and puts him on a live dog at 147 are pretty high.
That’s why it’s important that Eubank Jr. fight the 25-year-old Benn before he is exposed and his career slowly starts to sink.
If Benn is humiliated by the likes of Keith Thurman and Yordenis Ugas, two fighters he says he wants to fight, a fight between him and Eubank Jr will not make the same amount of money as it does now.
Benn is a decent prospect, but he hasn’t been in the sport long enough to compete with talented young welterweights like Jaron “Boots’ Ennis and Vergil Ortiz Jr.
“The contract is between us; that’s Wasserman Boxing and Eubank Jr,” Sauerland said. “So I don’t see what legal route there could be.
Eubank Jr. has the catchweight of 157 pounds and a rehydration clause that he will have to deal with before getting in the ring with Benn.
It’s going to be excruciatingly difficult for Eubank Jr to not only make 157 but also limit the amount of fluids he ingests after the weigh-in for the secondary weigh-in on fight morning.
“He was training yesterday; my only problem right now is finding training partners because he’s going through them like a hot knife through butter,” Sauerland said of Eubank Jr.
