Conor Benn has unearthed some details about his encounter with a future rival.
The WBA Continental Welterweight champion will step up to the weight and class division when he returns to the ring on October 8.
Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) is set to face Chris Eubank Jr., exclusively live on DAZN worldwide, and DAZN Pay-Per-View in the UK and Ireland, in a follow-up match surplus with a weight of 157 pounds, there is a rivalry between two families.
Benn’s father Nigel was a middle and super middleweight champion when he fought Eubank’s father Chris Sr twice in the 1990s.
Eubank won the pair’s first meeting before the rematch, at 168lb, having scored a draw at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium in October 1993.
Sons of two legends will meet 29 years later, minus one dayat the O2 Arena in London.
And Benn, 25, has revealed that the pair met in Brighton and called Eubank Jr. is “his father’s carbon copy”.
Benn, whose father Nigel is likely to be in the UK during his training camp for the Eubank war, said TalkSport:
“His approach is completely different from mine.
“I won’t fake anything.
“We are complete opposites, after all. With the camera off, we were standing there in Brighton and I went to see my friends.”
Eubank Jr., who is said to have yet to hear from his eccentric father Chris Sr. since announcing his fight with Benn, because he’d rather have his dad in his corner than Roy Jones Jr., his trainer, or longtime mentor Ronnie Davies, have said. something is not going well with ‘Terminator’.
Benn continued about the chance encounter:
“He’s Gone: ‘I’m Going to Vegas’
“I said: ‘What did you come to Vegas for?’ And he replied: ‘Life, my friend, life.’
“I just looked at him and said, ‘What kind of reaction is that?'”
Eubank Jr doesn’t believe he has to be in top form to beat Benn, he claims that he will only be at 60% after having to lose weight to the agreed limit, with a rehydration clause and a whopping £100,000 per pound – or maybe more, if promoter Eddie Hearn is to be believed – good for either boxer to hit the scales over the limit.
At the war’s launch press conference in London on Friday, Eubank Jr. talk about cutting weight:
“I can’t hit 100% if I have to gain weight that I’ve never gained before and I can’t rehydrate adequately.
“If I could be 100%, it would be a public execution.”
