A POTENTIAL battle between Canelo Alvarez and Chris Eubank Jr is again on the desk.
Eubank had been within the working to face the Mexican famous person in September however turned down the deal provided to him.
“For a man who’s making 35 to 50 million a battle, don’t provide me the numbers you had been providing me,” Eubank stated earlier this month. “To a traditional man on the street, that’s life altering. It’s not life altering to me, and I do know what’s being made all over the place else, so don’t give me these numbers.”
Eubank shook off some ring rust with a seventh-round knockout win in opposition to Kamil Szeremeta on October 12. Afterwards Eubank’s largest rival Conor Benn entered the ring prompting some verbal exchanges between the 2.
Eubank’s promoter Ben Shalom has at present informed Sky Sports activities that “small conversations” have begun for a battle in opposition to Canelo. Final month he unified super-middleweight champion received his fifth consecutive battle, since dropping to Dmitry Bivol, beating Edgar Berlanga by unanimous choice.
Subsequent yr Eubank hopes to battle Canelo and Conor Benn regardless of the latter nonetheless at the moment and not using a British boxing licence after testing optimistic for efficiency enhancing medicine in October 2022. And the 35-year-old believes he has what it takes to make him the face of British boxing however wants legacy defining wins to take action.
“It’s onerous to compete with heavyweights, they’ve famously been the top and in [Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury] you will have two profitable guys and big characters. However they’ve sort of had their time,” he informed Sky Sports activities.
“So if I do what I’m purported to do and what I’m able to in these subsequent few fights, I completely consider there’s a robust likelihood I may turn into the face of boxing, British boxing particularly.”
