Promoter Ben Shalom believes it may only be a matter of time before a fight with Chris Eubank Jr. and Connor Benn is finally agreed upon.
Shalom, promoter of Boxxer’s Eubank Jnr, said: “If I were a punter it would be done within the next week.”
ben promoter eddie hearn told BoxingScene earlier this week Hearn said WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios remains an option for Benn, but Shalom said if Eubank had to fight in another fight, they would fight WBA welterweight champion E. Rislandi Lara competes. direction.
Both sponsors said negotiations were difficult. But with The Ring’s glitzy boxing ceremony taking place in London on Saturday, the announcement could coincide with the event.
Eubank and Benn were scheduled to fight more than two years ago in a fight that stemmed from their famous fighting father’s rivalry. But the fight fell apart at the last minute after Benn failed a test for the drug clomefene, turning a showcase rivalry into a more personal feud that has made negotiations even more difficult this time around.
“You know what it is,” Shalom said. “I haven’t been involved with this as long as other promoters and I remember doing Amir Khan-Kel Brook and I didn’t understand why the match couldn’t happen because I was thinking, you [the fighters] Be an effective business partner. You can host an event that allows generations of you to make money together, and all you have to do is agree on something. I keep thinking, Amir and Kyle, why can’t you understand that you can make a lot of money together? But the thing is, they can’t stand being in the same room with each other and there’s a real hatred that has been building for years. Kyle’s family has a lot of resentment towards Amir and all of history, which I kind of understand. With Chris and Connor, I thought from the outside it was just going to be a pantomime fight, but it’s really hard because they’re both… Connor has more of an ego than Chris Eubank Jr., and I don’t know what to do! This makes things difficult. have. “
Shalom nodded when asked whether such events would be broadcast by Sky Sports, in partnership with Eubank and Boxxer, and DAZN, in partnership with Hearn and Benn. “I think that’s the easy part. I think the hardest part is getting the fighters to agree.”
While Eubank is often said to be the hardest person to work with in negotiations, Shalom this time claims Ben was the hardest person to work with on this deal.
When asked what the hardest part of the discussion was, Shalom said: “Getting Conor to understand that he’s not Anthony Joshua. I think it’s smart for Conor to understand that. If this was the little guy three or four years ago, Chris Eubank Jnr, maybe he was a bit hot-headed at the time, but he actually took a pretty reasonable, mature approach to the whole thing and it was just to make sure that the other side did as well. Do it. I think it will be done.”
