Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Nigel Benn II & Jack Catterall vs. Ekow Essuman RBR.

Rivalries aren't truly settled until the Matchroom fighter wins despite all other circumstances/results.

 

Matchroom also are propaganda tv , with all the YouTube nonsense

How the crowd was with Connor Benn last night was exactly what Hearn wanted when he brought up Hatton at the press conference.

 

I think British boxing is done. Finished.

And that’s down to one man…. The demon himself Eddie H.

 

Correct - and Turki has topped it off.

 

Benn’s dealer

 

The reality is the sports not really worthwhile financially to pander to people like us. So they end up pandering to the casuals. It is what it is.

Basically propaganda to sell to the masses.

 

As others have said, I think Eubank has been done for awhile now. He has looked weak at the weight, less sharp, and has had poor stamina for several fights now. Obviously, the first fight against Benn would have taken a lot out of him, but there wasn't a hell of a lot of difference between him in either Benn fight. In the first fight he didn't look sharp and was knackered from about round 5 onwards, throwing arm punches, and it was only grit and resolve that carried him to victory.

The biggest difference between the two fights was Benn. He thought more in the second fight. He was still aggressive, but it was controlled aggression. He feinted more, and utilise more upper body movement to keep Eubank off balance and prevent Eubank from establishing his jab. Benn also used his jab more, and threw more straight shots overall. He still leapt in with the odd winging hook, but nowhere near as much as the first fight.

Ultimately, Benn was far less predictable than he was in the first fight, so the shot Eubank (who was shot in their first fight, and was never a world class fighter even in his prime) had no idea how to handle him.

Benn is twat and a confirmed drug cheat, but he showed in the ring last night that he is not completely useless.

I do think this talk of him going down to 147 is a bad idea. He has packed on muscle to make 160 and is nearly 30. Boiling down to 147 is risky now. I get it, 147 is much weaker than 154, but he would be better of going to 154.

 

Don’t talk nonsense mate , Stevie wonder could see eubank punches last night he was that slow , it is easy to feint and look a good boxer when you’re up against a weight drained zombie.

If Crocker or any healthy fit boxer catches Benn like Eubank did in the first or second round clean , Benn goes down.

last night was a cash out and nothing can be taken from it

 

Shalom mentioned that Eubank did well to even get in the ring, so god knows what went on.

Watched it again and it was a farce, I likened it to Bellew Haye 1 where Bellew huffed and puffed to put away a one legged man, and it is like that, anyone watching and saying how great Benn was is just caught in the hype. Anyone on the card would have put Eubank away the way he was fighting, there was nothing coming back from him at all.

I do hope Benn fights for a title, and him get schooled again, although with Hearn bullshitting, and Turki seemingly happy to spunk money away I imagine buying one isn't a far fetch for him

Remember, Benn uses the word cleared and doesn't use the words not guilty.

There is a difference, NADP stated it was "not comfortably satisfied" that the case had been proven against Benn.

Special mention to Tony Bellew again tonight, his long stance about drug cheats seems to have disappeared once again last night, happy to take the money once again.

 

Someone telling it like it is, pretty rare these days to hear that.

 

The Ultimate DAZN annual subscribers and PPV purchasers could have done with this info. pre fight - they must be seething.

 

I took it to mean he struggled badly to make the weight. From before the first bell Eubank looked zombified. Not sure there's anything more to it than that, but who knows. Will all come out in the wash I'm sure.

 

Or it could all be a massive excuse to set up another farce.

 

Stevie Wonder could also see Eubank's punches coming in the first fight. Go back and rewatch the first fight. Eubank was as shite, slow, and knackered as he was last night. Eubank threw a tonne of punches that fight, but most of them were forced out arm punches. Benn fought a corpse that night just as he did last night, however, the reason why Benn got hit far less this time and performed much better was due to the changes he made between fights.

Does this mean that Benn is now a world class fighter, or even just a decent fighter? Of course not. But, he clearly changed his game plan from the first fight and that was the main difference.

 

Based on Jnr’s performance last night, I honestly think even Stevie Wonder would’ve offered more resistance – that’s how bad Eubank was. Sure, Conor was tactically much better, but Eubank, whose engine used to be his biggest asset, boxed scared because he knew how weak he was. No uppercuts, no risky shots, just doing the bare minimum to get through the rounds.

What he did last night was actually beyond dangerous. He was lucky Benn stuck to the game plan and didn’t go for it like in the first fight – one sustained attack and it would’ve been curtains for Jnr. By the end he was totally exhausted, out on his feet, just surviving.

But for what he was getting paid and how it ended, it was a calculated risk he felt was worth taking. He probably thought he might catch Conor at some point with one shot.

I don’t even think Turki would fall for a trilogy fight, although Hearn would be all for it.