Chris Eubank Jr rejected retirement suggestions after Conor Benn's first fight: “I still have it!” | Boxing news

Chris Eubank Jr rejected the retirement recommendations, including his father, to take the match next month with Conor Benn.

Eubank Jr dominated Benn, the son of the great rival of Chris Eubank Sr, Nigel Benn, in a thriller of 12 laps in April.

They will be on November 15 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Eubank rejected the idea that he should have withdrawn after the first fight with Benn.

“I heard people suggest that, 36 years old, made so much, fight of the year, what more should he do? Maybe he should retire,” said Eubank Sky Sports.

“Why go through all this? Because the truth is that I don't need it. Because if we are talking about financial stability, I'm ready to live. So I don't need to do it.”

But he insisted: “I always feel fresh. I always feel capable. I always have this hunger and this fire and this desire to get up to train every day, to improve myself as a fighter, to play in front of fans. So retirement is simply not in my state of mind right now. You will see me for a while.”

Chris Eubank Sr, a legend of British boxing, repaired his fault with his son just before the first fight. He made an unexpected appearance at the stadium and accompanied a memorable junior on his ring.

After the fight, he also advised his son to consider retirement.

“He had the conversation with me and I said to him:” It's not the moment, old man “. He retired at 32, so in his mind, he cannot understand how I always do what I do at 36 years old. So I understand. But he is not me. He does not feel what I feel in the gymnasiums and in these rings,” said Eubank Jr.

He underlined his strong finish during the first fight, when he had Benn under pressure in the 12th round.

“He's still there. What fighters are fighting like this for 12 laps?” He said. “No one launches this amount of punches in the 12th round, they do not launch this amount of punches in the first round when they have all their energy. So I always have it. I am always capable.”

Eubank Jr was hospitalized for dehydration after the first fight. He cited the rehydration clause in this fight as the reason for this, although the revenge match will take place under the same conditions.

“When you are limited in what you can and cannot eat after a weighing, it affects you on the evening of the fight,” he said.

“After a weighing, you are supposed to be able to reconstruct yourself as much as you can. I could not do that. Because of that, I felt the effects during the fight.”

Despite the maintenance of Eubank, Benn was not the most difficult fight of his career.

“I knew exactly where I was, I knew exactly what I was doing. I controlled this fight. It was difficult for sure, but punishing, no. It was a dog fight,” he said.

“I had more difficult fights. The George Groves fight, I fight a guy who has 20 more pounds, can strike like mule, I was cut. It is for me a more difficult fight.

“I have had long, they are called Doghouse spars, you are just Spar for as long as you can until someone abandons. There is no turn, there are no breaks, you continue until someone leaves.

“I know what I am capable of, I am previously in these places. I do not know if he has ever done it. He now has it. But in terms of experience when it comes to entering these hairy situations, the experience is for sure.”

He feels that he always has a score to settle with Benn.

“The guy went to celebrate more than me. I was relaxing. This guy was partying, he went to America, he was in the front row during these events, taking photos, signaling autographs. I was not doing all of that. You would have thought he was he who had won,” said Eubank Jr about his rival.

“Delirious. But, hey, I suppose that as fighters, you sometimes have to be delusional. This is what allows you to reach these heights. You have to be a little crazy.”