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 supplied 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 mentioned 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 in every single 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 greatest rival Conor Benn entered the ring prompting some verbal exchanges between the 2.
Eubank’s promoter Ben Shalom has in the present day informed Sky Sports activities that “small conversations” have begun for a battle in opposition to Canelo. Final month he unified super-middleweight champion gained his fifth consecutive battle, since shedding to Dmitry Bivol, beating Edgar Berlanga by unanimous choice.
Subsequent 12 months 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 medication 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 arduous to compete with heavyweights, they’ve famously been the head and in [Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury] you’ve gotten two profitable guys and large characters. However they’ve sort of had their time,” he informed Sky Sports activities.
“So if I do what I’m presupposed to do and what I’m able to in these subsequent few fights, I completely consider there’s a sturdy likelihood I may develop into the face of boxing, British boxing particularly.”
