It looks like Nigel Benn (aged 54), and Chris Eubank (aged 52) are heading for a rubber match!

Does this mean Eubank has finally given up on Junior?

 

It’d depend on the press conferences, build up etc.

 

Stupendous fight.

 

I was joking but there’s also truth in jest. My take on it is that all of the pearl-clutching done by fans about Benn and Eubank’s ages and concern for their health is hypocritical bull****. You can in no way be a fan of boxing and care about a fighter’s health. Ben and Eubank are down to the bone warriors (as are Holmes and Foreman) and if these men choose to fight - whether it be for money or glory that might only exist in their heads - they’ve earned the right. Look at Mosley, Toney, Taylor (and only God knows how many others) who aren’t even 50 and slurring their speech. We were all more than happy to cheer them on when they were accruing the damage but now that they’re shells of themselves boxing fans want to claim some moral high ground and say, “Oh no! It’s wrong for you to fight. You might get hurt!”
What else are these guys, who are probably barely literate, supposed to do? Go get their forklift operator’s license? All their lives all they’ve known is fighting. If they’re both willing then I say let them do it. I personally believe it’s far more immoral to sanction women’s boxing. And I think it’s heinous to sanction a fight between some young Olympic stud with a cab driver who’s 3-14-4 with the sole purpose of the stud scoring a violent KO in the 2nd round in order to build him into an attraction with a 20-0, 19 KO record.
YMMV.

 

I bet snr was living a lifestyle which only could have been funded by Jnr being as good as they thought he was.