Chris Eubank Jr. advised to retire by fellow British boxers
Conor and Carl command Chris to call it a day
Last November, Chris Eubank Jr. (35-4, 25 KOs) accepted his fourth career loss, losing his hotly anticipated rematch to Conor Benn (24-1, 14 KOs) at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
The result was monumental for the Benn family, finally achieving a win over their bitter rivals, the Eubanks.
Ahead of the rematch, Eubank once again struggled with the weight cut – having missed weight in their first meeting.
This time, despite a successful weigh-in, the 36-year-old veteran looked completely depleted throughout their 12-round one-sided affair.
A few weeks following the fight, Eubank Jr. posted a clip of him receiving urgent medical treatment, intensifying concern and increasing calls for the Brit to call it quits.
Recently, ring rival Conor Benn has publicly urged his adversary to retire, stating that health and family should always come first.
“Do I think he should call it a day?” Benn asked rhetorically. “Personally, I think he should sail off into the sunset. It’s always hard to do that with a loss, but I think he should call it a day.
“He’s got twin boys, two beautiful twin boys, that have come into this world and sometimes you need to prioritise your health and safety over everything else. But for some reason I’ll be expecting a phone call once he realises 168lbs is not for him. Who’s he going to fight at 168lbs?”
Speaking to Vegas Insider, Carl Frampton also urged the Brighton boxer to hang up the gloves, “I don’t think he should fight again. I think that the money he’s made throughout his career, and specifically in the last couple of fights he had with Benn, he’s made more money than fighters that are a lot better than him.”
“The Jackal” added, “You could see from the first fight with Benn to the second fight, the first fight had taken something away from Chris Eubank. And as you as you get older and as the more the harder rounds you do in the gym and the harder fights you have, it literally takes it takes something away from a fighter. I know that personally, and it happened to me. I just don’t think Chris Eubank Jr. is the same fighter as he once was. And it can happen like that. And that’s that’s what’s happened to him.
“So, I would like to see him stay retired. Go and spend your money and do whatever you want to do.”
Speaking amid the retirement rumours, BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom offered insight into Eubank Jr’s condition and reiterated that he is not finished with boxing just yet.
“He’s had a lot of stuff to do medically to flush out what he’s been dealing with.
“Once that’s done, he will be back, probably at 168lb, but there was an underlying issue he had to get rid of. We’re looking forward to him being back in the middle of the year.
“There wasn’t enough time between April and what ended up November, but initially September, to sort out the issue, it was something that required proper medical attention, and he didn’t get that. But now he’s getting that sorted. He lives the life and then he can come back in a healthy and safe safe way.
“But until that’s completely resolved then he won’t again in a ring. But from the procedures and everything that he’s had so far, it’s looking like he’ll make a full recovery.
“When you offer fighters loads of money to do stupid things, that’s what they do.
“Unfortunately it is. That’s where it takes the regulator to say it shouldn’t be allowed. I regret seeing it, but ultimately, the fighters have that choice over their own body and there’s only so much you can do. It won’t happen again. But I wouldn’t want to see it again in boxing, to be honest. I think it’s really dangerous and will lead to something pretty bad.”
Chris Eubank Jr. has won the IBO world title at middleweight and super-middleweight twice. He has also won the British belt and the WBA Interim strap twice at middleweight.
