Will Eubank Junior challenge himself?

[wrighty]

Eubank had that good win against Liam Williams who may or may not be on the slide, although I think he's a danger to most mws still. He's then talking about fighting Brook and Benn. Why not at least challenge Signani for the Euro belt which is very winnable. He fought in a wbc elimator against Korobov then seemed to have scraped that idea? His career has been bizarre. He did have the Degale win and the Yildrim AA wins, but it seems stop start. Why not fight for the domestic titles if he's not getting a title shot. Eubank vs Bentley, cash or Paul's would also be fun!

[Enlightened-One]

Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn is being targeted for October 8 at the O2 Arena in London.

[wrighty]

It's a pointless fight. What does it prove for Eubank? I think Benn is at a disadvantage

[KiwiRider]

I think he would like to test himself, and try for a belt.
It's been a long time since the Groves fight, where he tried for the WBA&IBO during the WBSS. He came up quite a bit short that night, unable to take advantage of a basically one armed Groves in the final stages.
And yet I personally feel that was his best performance to date, in what was the second best SMW in his own country.
Then the drop to MW, and over four years later he still hasn't gone for a proper title.
Can't really blame him though, he has been making decent money without it. The change in trainer and weight just doesn't seem to have made him any better.
His team are keeping him back for a reason, after two losses, I feel the reason is to keep on earning against second tier guys and not even need to take the risk of stepping up.
Its a bit sad really.

[gp.]

This title gave me visions of Eubank Jr making a YouTube video calling himself a pudendum and saying he'd fight himself anywhere.

[Mexi-Box]

Does he really need to constantly challenge himself? The dude fought Saunders and Korobov when he didn't have to. Just with those, he's already done more than Andrade.

I think a fight with Brook is fine, imo.

[apollo creed]

Charlo vs Eubank jr would be a good fight but I doubt it would ever happen.

Mungiua vs Eubank Jr is another good one.

[Counter-puncher]

This title gave me visions of Eubank Jr making a YouTube video calling himself a pudendum and saying he'd fight himself anywhere.

[Enlightened-One]

It's a pointless fight. What does it prove for Eubank? I think Benn is at a disadvantage

Chris Eubank Jr. will be 33 years of age by the time he enters the ring against Conor Benn, which means he hasn’t got many fights left in him.

And the Benn bout would provide him with the best payday opportunity to engage in a winnable bout.

It’s also the fight that will attract the biggest audience PPV buys for his home network than anyone else he could possibly hope to face within the next six months or so.

It’s a far bigger commercial bout for Eubank Jr. than facing the likes of Charlo, Munguia or Alimkhanuly.

The only middleweight opponent capable of providing a better payday at 160lbs is GGG, but it’s highly-likely the Kazakh may retire after facing Canelo for a third time. And even if Golovkin continues to compete, he’s mandated to face Erislandy Lara next anyway.

The British mainstream masses will tune into the Benn-Eubank Jr. fight in their droves, because they’ll be hoping to see history repeat itself, because the bouts between their famous fathers were massively entertaining historically significant affairs.