Boxing Dec 07, 2025

Conor Benn expects to end Chris Eubank Jr's career: 'This is my last fight at 160lbs'

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Conor Benn expects to end Chris Eubank Jr's career: 'This is my last fight at 160lbs'

What does 0.05lbs get you? If you’re Conor Benn it's a high-end Rolls-Royce, complete with champagne table, whiskey table, mink carpets, carbon fibre trimmings, shooting stars dotted into the ceiling of the interior.

It's the car he bought with the $500,000 levied on Chris Eubank Jr for missing weight ahead of their first fight in April.

Benn sits back in his seat, his own initials stitched into the headrest naturally, and wonders what he'll buy if Eubank fails to make weight ahead of their rematch.

"I've bought a Ferrari," he laughed, "but it'll contribute to it."

He may have chalked up a victory on the scales ahead of the previous fight, but it was Eubank Jr who won the decision in the ring.

Benn has material comforts, but he is driven to avenge the loss.

"If I was scared or not a proper fighting man, would I have given the public this fight? Probably not, no. I'm the one jumping up two weights at the end of the day," Benn told SportNews.

"He couldn't lose the first one, you're fighting a welterweight for God's sake. You've got to think that was the second time going 12 rounds in my whole career.

"I'm about to tuck him in on Saturday."

The two have reprised the rivalry of their famous fathers, Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr, whose saga lit up the British boxing scene in the 1990s.

Benn is adamant that he will end Eubank Jr's career after this next contest. "I think Chris will retire after this fight," Benn said.

"He's fighting a welterweight. Just look at the landscape. He isn't going to stay at 160lbs and fight a Janibek [Alimkhanuly] or a [Hamzah] Sheeraz, for half the money. It doesn't make sense.

"He's fighting a welterweight," Benn emphasised. "I'll drop back down to welterweight and carry on pursuing my goals and dreams at 147. This is my final fight at 160."

He was first meant to box Eubank Jr in 2022 at a catchweight, but that contest was nixed after Benn returned an anti-doping violation. When he was cleared to box in the UK, the fight was eventually made for April of this year, this time at 160lbs, with a fight-day weight check, and a rematch.

"It's been the bane of my life for the past three years. So I just can't wait for this to be done and over with and I can just move on with my career," Benn said.

He wants to record a victory over Eubank Jr, but he is also determined to pursue a world title.

"My goal is to win a world title at welterweight," he said. "Right now my goal is to get back down to welterweight. I have the best team, nutritionist, a chef to get back down to 147."

Mario Barrios, the WBC belt-holder, is his target: "I'm going to the WBC convention in Thailand straight after the fight to get that sorted."

But he added: "There's plenty of world title opportunities for me to get, whether it's Barrios, [Ryan] Garcia, Rolly Romero, these are the fights that are being talked about after the fight, straightaway.

"Brian Norman, any of these guys. I'll fight any of these guys."

A $500,000 car is perhaps the perfect setting to ponder what really motivates a fighter. Wealth and winning titles don't always come hand in hand in professional boxing.

Eubank Jr after all is a non-title bout. An ageing Manny Pacquiao, who came out of retirement to draw with Barrios, might be the most lucrative fight for him after Eubank Jr, but wouldn't have a world championship attached to it.

"How much money do you need? Or how much money do you make? I feel like I've put three years of my career aside for this fight. To the point now where I wouldn't be complete if I retired a multi-millionaire and didn't have the world title," Benn said.

"I'd be upset with myself… I don't know. It doesn't sit right with me. I get money is everything, you need money to live but ultimately for me, to have the money and the belt that's perfect.

"Enough of Chris, enough of the Eubank/Benn names, I just can't wait for it to be done and over with and just move on with my career."

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