Via Jim Calfa: Chris Eubank Jr promoter Kalle Sauerland has confirmed that the battle with Conor Benn is still going on on October 8 at the O2 Arena in London.
Sauerland said he doesn’t want to talk to Chris Eubank, who on Monday talked about wanting to pull his son Eubank Jr out of the fight due to the 157 lb weight class.
Kalle points out that Eubank Jr is under contract to take on Benn (21-0, 14 KOs), and the fight will continue. Chris Jr is getting ready to take on the young upstart Benn in their fight on DAZN pay-per-view.
Sauerland added that this is not a move by them to increase the weight from 157 to 160, nor is it a ploy to remove the rehydration clause.
“My son’s life cannot be threatened. I already lost one. It can’t happen again,” Chris Eubank told Daily mail.
‘I showed him my direction. If he doesn’t want to follow it, he’ll be dragged along. But he will do what is right for him.”
“I won’t comment on seniors’ comments. That’s for seniors to do. I’ll just talk about the boxing event, and that event is contracted and will take place on October 8 at O2, ” promoter Kalle Sauerland told iFL TV about the fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn.
“Junior is kicking and kicked yesterday. We are very excited about a big event on October 8th.
“His comment was made to a journalist yesterday. I wasn’t there. I don’t know how they are made. My phone blew up yesterday, but still works fine. We have a contract, and the juniors are excited for the fight.
“No, since it was contracted,Sauerland said when asked if this was a strategy to lift the match weight to 160 or remove the rehydration clause, which negatively affected Eubank Jr.
“Once the contracts are done, it’s done, and I haven’t been asked to do that, and I’ve never seen that before. In fact, if 157 is not done, there will be penalties. So it turned into a financial discussion afterwards.
“It was a relatively long period of negotiation, and the weight was settled very early in that negotiation. It is not the weight that is kept. Those are other things,” Sauerland said.
