Chris Eubank JR vs. Conor Benn: ‘This is the first mega match in boxing history where you have two bad guys’ | Boxing news

Neither Chris Eubank Jr nor Conor Benn know how they will be received by the crowd when fighting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night.

Tens of thousands of people who lived your name would be hard enough to take anyway, so much less when you carry one of the most famous surnames in British boxing.

The sons of great rivals Chris Eubank SR and Nigel Benn are fighting in a ring magazine event, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

They have their own demons to meet in the fight, they have their own points to prove against each other and to themselves.

They will also wonder how they will be convicted.

“This is the first mega match in the boxing story where you have two bad guys,” EUBANK told Sky Sports.

“You have the potential of both fighters in a super -match being booed in the ring. It has never happened before. It will probably happen on April 26

“It doesn’t bother me. I enjoy it and enjoy it,” he added. “It used to confuse and upset me. Now I dream of it. Now I live by the energy I have learned to use it to my advantage. I have accepted my fate.”

Still, even hardened pricing people have it difficult to resist a basic human mood. They will also be loved.

“There have been so many times in my career where I thought I would be the good guy; the one who got the support and was cheered. It never happened,” Eubank said.

“Every time I had a big victory or overcame adversity, or put on a good show, came back from defeat, all the next time I was back in that ring I was booed again. So I gave up that dream for many, many, many years ago.

“My fight with Liam Smith, where I beat him in the fight, was my kind of last hope of being accepted as someone that everyone could get behind. The first match I got booed into the arena lost the first match booed on the way out.

“Six months on got booed back at the same arena, came in the ring against a guy who everyone said I couldn’t beat because I was ‘done’, ‘didn’t have a chin’ and ‘I didn’t want it anymore’. Dominated the match, had a career best performance. Beat him, stopped him in 10 rounds, shook all hands, it was respectful, no trash.

“I thought ‘Now I can definitely get a little slack’ and the next time I went out in public, Anthony Joshua versus Dubois, I go into Wembley Stadium, 80,000 people, the cameras are on me while I go in. I look up at the screen and all slices had my face on them while I walk in. And all stage -boos me.

“So when I go to my seat, I really understood. I’m not the guy.

Conor Benn doesn’t look like a ‘bad guy’. He insists that he is not an angry man.

“I’m not angry. I think that’s what people have confused. I’m not angry. I’m intense and I’m passionate. You might say I’m a little angry. Not with him, I’m just an intense person coming fight week. I think it’s always personal when someone tries to take something away from you,” Benn told Sky Sports.

“Have I ever lost my tranquility? Maybe early doors, not now.”

Benn’s public view is shaped by notoriousness. He was originally due to Box Eubank in 2022, a match that was interrupted after his drug test results emerged.

He protested on his suspension, and after two bouts in the United States in the intervening two years, in November his preliminary suspension was lifted and the British Boxing Board of Control and UKAD did not appeal, which released him to a Box in Britain.

“I felt I had confirmation when I won the first case, the first hearing,” Benn said. “There’s nothing more I can do. There’s nothing more I can say. In the end, it’s a great story and people just want a story people want something to gossip by talking about, but in the end it’s done.”

“I was definitely destroyed,” Benn said. “It’s still healing.

“I’ve gone through the toughest fight anyone can ever go through and it’s just life in my own head.”

By even giving him this fight, EUBANK was wondering, “Have I done him a favor? I assume you could say that. Without me in terms of business he has nothing.

“Everything was taken from him: His credibility, his respect, his name, everyone thrown away. I am the only guy he can earn these crazy amounts of money he will make a fight.”

However, it is a competition that Eubank JR did not oppose to take.

“This is a struggle that has too much public interest. People who have no interest in boxing want this match to happen. It has become bigger than Conor Benn, and me. History, the story, the legacy of our fathers made this match massive, and now everything has played between me, and Conor has made the fight to explode even more,” he said.

“Now it’s really mainstream, which is great for boxing. I understand that this is the biggest match of my career with certainty and I treat it as such.”

Chris Eubank vs. Conor Benn will be Live Saturday 26 April the Sky Sports Box Office. Book now!