Promoter Eddie Hearn says it’s going to be “totally different” for his fighter Conor Benn in his rematch with Chris Eubank Jr. this Saturday, November fifteenth, on DAZN PPV on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Tottenham in London, England.
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“It’s going to be an amazing night for Conor. I do know we’re going to be victorious on Saturday,” said Nigel Benn to DAZN Boxing, predicting victory for his son Conor Benn against Chris Eubank Jr. on Saturday.
Well, if it doesn’t work out well for Benn within the rematch with Eubank Jr. on Saturday, he all the time has the excuse to make use of again, blaming it on him fighting outside of his natural weight class of welterweight by facing a middleweight. He can then return to 147 and check out to go after certainly one of the vulnerable champions.
Going by the best way Conor looked last April, he’s not going to do well against Eubank Jr. within the rematch. Eubank Jr. found out Benn by the sixth round, realizing that he only has a protracted game. In close, Benn is as helpless as a baby, much more vulnerable than the lower-tier welterweights. He’s only capable of generate power from a protracted distance, and that’s not something that’s going to vary on Saturday.
If one looks in any respect of Conor’s 24 fights in the professional ranks, he has no power in close. He’s entirely different from his famous father, Nigel, who could punch from close, medium, and long range. But nevertheless, he has none of Nigel’s physical assets when it comes to speed, power, and skills.
Hearn Sells the Reinvention
“It’s totally different this time. Last week, we were keeping him calm. He was nervous concerning the fight,” said Hearn, putting a positive slant on what Conor Benn is up against. “We underestimated the magnitude of the event. What he learned from the fight and the way he’ll improve will come to life on Saturday night.”
That’s not why Benn lost last time. It wasn’t that he “underestimated the magnitude” of fighting Eubank Jr. He just wasn’t ok, and lacked a solid enough game to beat what, in actual terms, is a fringe-level middleweight. He might have been mentally as prepared as may be, and he still would have lost to Eubank Jr. because he doesn’t have the physical assets to do the job against him. Eubank Jr. has the ingredients that will have all the time put him above Benn:
- Cardio
- Combination punching
- Poise
Benn doesn’t have any of those things going for him. Even when he had two of them working, he’d still come up empty by missing the third.
“I feel we’ll get one other tremendous spectacle. Each of those guys are tough. What I see now from Conor is a mature fighter, someone who has the experience now. His body looks different at 160, and that was the primary tough fight he’s been in, and he wants more,” said Hearn.
Conor looks the identical this time as he did of their previous fight on April twenty sixth, 2025. The one difference is that he seems to have aged a bit bit within the last seven months, and his face appears marked up from the training camp spars.
“He has so way more within the tank. His tank is nowhere near empty. The trenches have only been visited for the primary time. He wants more trenches. He wants more pain,” said Hearn about Benn.
This fight is perhaps pretty much as good because it gets for Benn. When he moves back all the way down to 147, some sharks shall be waiting for him, and so they’re lots younger than the 36-year-old Eubank Jr. Unless Benn can get to WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios before he loses his title, there’s not much for him. He might as well stay at 160 or move all the way down to 154, because there are higher options for him.
Last Updated on 11/11/2025