Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn | PPV - 26 April 2025

[maverick23]

Hearn just confirmed he won’t be promoting this fight with a foreign sanctioning body.

So BIBA or an exhibition.

I am the weferee!

[1103924]

It’s mental that the BBBC don’t have the power to stop fights happening in this country.

Same situ for Haye v Chisora.

The BBBofC are at best, incompetent and worst, corrupt. None of us should be surprised by anything they do.

[tony1234]

Hearn just confirmed he won’t be promoting this fight with a foreign sanctioning body.

So BIBA or an exhibition.

I am the weferee!

How convenient that is

[maverick23]

BIBA obviously not a foreign commission , so either either them, the BBofC fold or the fight doesn't take place. I wonder what the financial considerations are on this fight for DAZN and Matchroom, whether it is shit or bust for them ?

It won’t be shit or bust but it’s a £10m fight and it’s the first fight that has crossed over to the casual market for DAZN in the U.K. so there’s an awful lot riding on it.

[stujones]

BIBA obviously not a foreign commission , so either either them, the BBofC fold or the fight doesn't take place. I wonder what the financial considerations are on this fight for DAZN and Matchroom, whether it is shit or bust for them ?

It won’t be shit or bust but it’s a £10m fight and it’s the first fight that has crossed over to the casual market for DAZN in the U.K. so there’s an awful lot riding on it.

This publicity has probably done dazn no harm.

[liamlion]

Hearn just confirmed he won’t be promoting this fight with a foreign sanctioning body.

So BIBA or an exhibition.

I am the weferee!

That's only half of the quote! The other half being "...or alternative governing body"... so that would also rule out BIBA or anyone else.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Team DAZN trying to rush to any defence!

Ebanie Bridges criticised over deleted tweet about Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn

Ebanie Bridges has been criticised by fans for stating it would be "devastating" for all parties if Conor Benn 's fight with Chris Eubank Jr was cancelled.

Fans have since slammed Bridges, who like Benn is managed by Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing, for her stance on the fight as one user wrote: "Oh dear, another Matchroom money puppet selling their morales. Boxers either want this sport clean or they don’t, lining up behind your mates when they’ve popped for a substance used as a PCT [post-cycle therapy] for steroids is not a good look for anyone in the sport."

A second user replied: "I was a huge Benn fan but now…You’re close to him though so it must be hard but, there’s a right and wrong way to deal with this now. You can’t support the fight taking place, surely?"

with a third adding: "Pretty amazing that all boxers are not coming out and deploring the idea of the fight going ahead. Why are you all in denial about a dirty fighter? These meds are used to disguise a steroid cycle and you are all immediately poo-pooing it?!"

Both Benn and Eubank Jr have insisted they want the fight to go ahead, but a final user said Benn should be handed a lifetime ban after testing positive for the banned substance. "This is just b******s talk! Benn tested positive for drugs end of story! This is a sport and the fighter should have no say on the matter or the promoters! There should be absolutely zero tolerance for this crap! It should be a life time ban and no fight should go ahead," they wrote.

[Terminator666]

What is the cut off time for the fight to go ahead?

[smiling assassin]

If this goes ahead sanctioned by the BBBOC they are losing any credibility they have left as a organisation. Boxing is a joke sport

[jimmystone]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

[Counter-puncher]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

he's said on more than one occasion that's his ambition, if only people would leave him alone....

[maverick23]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

He may well be going home safe to his wife and kids now.

[Monzon83]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

Another charlatan, who gives it the big one about steroid cheats until his paymasters at Matchroom and DAZN tell him to shut up.

Hope the cheque is worth it, Tony.

[jimmystone]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

he's said on more than one occasion that's his ambition, if only people would leave him alone....

I remember Anthony saying that money was the root of all evil.

Before he was financially secure for life he was a wonderful moral compass (seriously), he almost always had what I and most people would see as the right views about life and what is right and wrong. Yes, he could be a bit annoying, loud, and go on like a broken record but he was seldom wrong. Now that he is financially secure for life, and still earning even more, he has become more measured at times and schtum at others, when he would have not been in the past.

His charity work is great but to remain credible with the people he is helping I hope he can show consistency with his views on PEDs in sport. He might be on holiday or his phone might be broken but he's normally quick off the mark.

If he was the type of person who never commented on this type of thing I wouldn't be on his case but he is usually a tweet machine.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

He may well be going home safe to his wife and kids now.

He went to see his nan.

[fizzjambo]

Aye, beneath the plastic rivalry this is a really, really shite fight. What’s it going to prove? Who can negotiate a contract to debilitate the other better? Who really is the 5th, 6th, 7th, etc best fighter in their very shallow weight class? Who’ll talk more shite they don’t really mean?
I wouldn’t buy this if it cost a £1. Everything that is wrong with boxing encapsulate in one fight

I didn’t think this fight could become any more ghoulish than it already was but by Christ they’ve fair managed that in 48hrs!

This is a parody of a parody now. Mullin and his ilk would be calling this out for the money grab pantomime that it is

[Dioufy]

ID Boxing saying fight off.

[fizzjambo]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

Another charlatan, who gives it the big one about steroid cheats until his paymasters at Matchroom and DAZN tell him to shut up.

Hope the cheque is worth it, Tony.

Another one bought by the pound note. What’s the definition of someone who sells themselves again……?

[fizzjambo]

ID Boxing saying fight off.

Based on what is out in public that would be the right call

[jimmystone]

Does anybody know if Anthony Bellew is okay? Maybe he has finally decided to disappear from public view and enjoy the quiet life.

Another charlatan, who gives it the big one about steroid cheats until his paymasters at Matchroom and DAZN tell him to shut up.

Hope the cheque is worth it, Tony.

Another one bought by the pound note. What’s the definition of someone who sells themselves again……?

It's a shame because from him being novice amateur I have admired him. He was legit banging blokes out when he was a boy and is, because I believe he was 100% clean, up there with our very best natural fighters ever. I think a lot of our higher ranked fighters were dirty. Bellew is a legit hard man and a top level boxer. Like I said earlier, he also has a decent moral compass. He should speak out.

[maverick23]

BIBA obviously not a foreign commission , so either either them, the BBofC fold or the fight doesn't take place. I wonder what the financial considerations are on this fight for DAZN and Matchroom, whether it is shit or bust for them ?

It won’t be shit or bust but it’s a £10m fight and it’s the first fight that has crossed over to the casual market for DAZN in the U.K. so there’s an awful lot riding on it.

This publicity has probably done dazn no harm.

I think the fight was being promoted really well before the drugs stuff. It was the shot in the arm (or wherever drugs are injected) that DAZN needed to get to the next level.

The drugs stuff has taken this to the next level. I had mates message me last night asking about it. I said to one of them about it now being for the IVF belt instead and he just responded with ‘ahhh…they’ll just fight for whoever will let them do it’.

[unknownman79]

Bellew retweeted the hearn tweet so he's alive just the silence is deafening from him.

[maverick23]

Looks like the fight is off although it’s yet to be confirmed.

Eddie will be saying ‘I had the option to do it with another organisation but morally it didn’t feel right etc’. He’s probably been trying to persuade the board for the last 24 hours to let the fight happen too.

[jimmystone]

He (Bellew) has just posted this:


I guess that means the fight is off and he thinks Eddie has made a good decision and is honest. He needs to get his bullshit detector serviced IMO. If I've misinterpreted, Ant, apologies but you are too cryptic for me.

[mickey1975]

Looks like the fight is off although it’s yet to be confirmed.

Eddie will be saying ‘I had the option to do it with another organisation but morally it didn’t feel right etc’. He’s probably been trying to persuade the board for the last 24 hours to let the fight happen too.

Hasn't his lawyers been in the high court all afternoon?