With Chris Eubank Jr once again preparing to take on Conor Benn in a middleweight rematch he will have to contend with the physical forces going against him. That wouldn’t only be the man he’s to face in the ring, as we saw Chris Eubank Jr struggle to make the contracted weight the first time around which cost him a pretty penny.
While Eubank Jr later mentioned that he had to go to the hospital following the fight in order to deal with dehydration, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn tells Sky Sports that there
shouldn’t be any issue with Eubank making the 160 lb limit for the rematch or the fight day weigh-in where neither will be able to weigh more than 10 lbs over the 160 limit.
“At 160lbs, which is his championship weight, he was definitely tight,” Hearn told Sky Sports. “His last seven or eight fights have been at 160lbs so we weren’t asking him to do anything out of the ordinary. But he will have to make a decision within his career moving forward if he’s going to stay at middleweight or if he’s going to move to 168lbs. This fight is at middleweight, that’s the terms of the fight. Perhaps this time he’ll make the weight better.”
With the rematch on deck it would appear that Eubank Jr has at least conceded this point for the time being, and he’ll have to cope with the physical demands of the preparation for the fight as much as he’ll have to deal with the fighter opposite of him on fight night.
