Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn: Date, time, undercard,…

Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn: Date, time, undercard, TV channel and tickets

The fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn takes place at the O2 Arena this month, with the pair taking part in a catchweight fight.

Eubank Jr has will be expected to make a career low 157lbs for the fight as he takes on Benn for the catchweight contest having never gone below 160lbs throughout his entire career. Eubank Jr (32-2, 23 KOs) will take on Benn (21-0, 14 KOs), claiming that he only needs to fight at 60% in order to beat the son of Nigel Benn, who had a famous rivalry with Eubank Jr's father, Chris.

Eubank Sr has already claimed to have withdrawn his son from the contest, expressing concern over the weight cut required. However, the fight is going ahead, with Eubank Jr appearing unconcerned about the conditions of the contest.

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The former IBO super-middleweight champion has been consistently posting videos to social media, following the '60% claim' and has thrown the fight in doubt with penalties for not making weight. At his 33rd birthday he was pictured cake as well as being pictured eating KFC chicken in an apparent message to Benn ahead of the highly anticipated fight between two sons of the 90s British boxing stars.

Benn Jr has said that the videos are all promotion, with the 26-year-old telling iFL TV : “It’s all for show, isn’t it? It’s good promotion, fair play to him. I hope he got paid from it because he needs to start counting his pennies.

“I don’t really look into stuff like that if you’re asking me. Maybe the public thinks he’s taking it easy, maybe the public don’t – they think he’s training hard. But again, it makes no difference to me because I’ll still prepare the same.

“He can do what he wants, if that’s his way of beating me or playing mental games then let him do that. To me, it screams excuses. Why would you not want to show a true dedicated athlete? Why would you not want to show elite standards, elite performance, elite behaviour? That’s down to him.”