A POTENTIAL struggle between Canelo Alvarez and Chris Eubank Jr is again on the desk.
Eubank had been within the working to face the Mexican celebrity in September however turned down the deal supplied to him.
“For a man who’s making 35 to 50 million a struggle, 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 all places 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 right now advised Sky Sports activities that “small conversations” have begun for a struggle in opposition to Canelo. Final month he unified super-middleweight champion received his fifth consecutive struggle, since dropping to Dmitry Bivol, beating Edgar Berlanga by unanimous resolution.
Subsequent 12 months Eubank hopes to struggle Canelo and Conor Benn regardless of the latter nonetheless at present with out a British boxing licence after testing constructive 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 onerous to compete with heavyweights, they’ve famously been the head and in [Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury] you will have two profitable guys and big characters. However they’ve type of had their time,” he advised Sky Sports activities.
“So if I do what I’m imagined to do and what I’m able to in these subsequent few fights, I completely imagine there’s a sturdy likelihood I might turn out to be the face of boxing, British boxing particularly.”
