A year on from Chris Eubank Sr threatening to pull his son out of the ill-fated fight with Conor Benn over weight concerns, Frank Warren has agreed with the comments and called the idea of the fight now ‘a nonsense.’
The topic has arisen again following Eubank Jr’s impressive knockout victory over Liam Smith in Manchester.
Jr boxed well behind his jab and won every round against Smith, which is all the more impressive given that back in January the Liverpudlian was the first man to stop him. Many believed that Eubank’s weight cut for the cancelled Benn fight played a part in that initial loss.
Despite the October 2022 event being pulled due to Benn’s adverse doping findings, Eubank made a point of getting close to the 157lbs catchweight.
Speaking to Seconds Out, Warren believes that affected him in the first fight with Smith.
“The Connor Benn situation comes up again but I think this adds a lot of stock to what his father was saying about if you look at the last fight [with Smith] his excuse was he cut weight and it was difficult for him and so forth.”
Warren then questioned what impact fighting at an ever lower weight against Benn would have had on Eubank. At the time, Eubank Sr the cut would put his son’s ‘life in danger.’
“How would he have been in a fight where he had to make that weight coming down two weights?
How would he have been on the night? What state would he have been? That was a dangerous match when it was made as far as the weight was concerned. So I hope they do away with all that.”
Warren then laid out what he thinks both men should do instead.
“Conor needs to do one thing and that’s appear in front of the Board of Control and UKAD and get that out the way so he can move on with his career and Eubank, I’d like to see him in with Zach Parker, they’re both the same weights, that’s a great fight.”
Despite his suggestion of Zach Parker, talks have already started to make the Eubank-Benn fight at 160lbs for the end of thie year. First, Benn will have to a license from the British Boxing Board of Control.