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Conor Benn has admitted he thinks he will never fight Chris Eubank Jr, after a fight between the pair collapsed again.<\/p>\n
Benn was due to fight Eubank Jr in October 2022, but the bout was cancelled on short notice after it was revealed that Benn had failed two drug tests. The 27-year-old was subsequently stripped of his British boxing licence and suspended by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)<\/p>\n
The World Boxing Council later cleared the unbeaten welterweight of any intentional wrongdoing, before the National Anti-Doping Panel lifted a provisional suspension on Benn, but the British Boxing Board of Control and Ukad have appealed that move. At the time of writing, Benn is still unable to fight in Britain.<\/p>\n
He returned to the ring in Florida in September, however, beating Rodolfo Orozco in Florida after obtaining a Texas boxing licence. Benn\u2019s attention then turned to reorganising his clash with Eubank Jr for 3 February at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.<\/p>\n
However, contract negotiations have reportedly stalled. \u201cI can\u2019t see the fight with me and Chris happening in general,\u201d Benn told Boxing Social on Thursday (14 December). <\/p>\n
\u201cThe money he wants is silly money, bearing in mind he\u2019s [already] getting paid silly money \u2013 career-highest payday to fight a welterweight. He\u2019s lost his pen. Would I wanna fight me if I was him? Probably not, he\u2019s at the end of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna move forward with my career, there\u2019s plenty of big fights that are being circulated for me. 3 February, the show still goes on, we have four opponents already lined up. We\u2019ve agreed to all of them, so hopefully we\u2019ll have an announcement this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, I\u2019m not gonna wait around for this guy who wants to mess around. I\u2019m 27, I feel like I\u2019m just getting started, with a good five or six years left in the game. My name\u2019s in talks with every big fight, whether it\u2019s 140[lbs], 147, 154 \u2013 people wanna see me in these fights. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna get paid regardless, it was just a matter of me wanting to give this guy a beating. You\u2019ve got to say he\u2019s scared. You have to say he\u2019s scared […] Career-highest payday to fight someone who\u2019s coming up two weights to fight you.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a fight that I wanted to give the British public, they deserve it, they wanna see the fight. Will the fight happen in the future? Definitely not, I won\u2019t wait around for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eubank Jr, 34, last fought in September, stopping Liam Smith to avenge a TKO loss from January. <\/p>\n
Prior to Benn\u2019s comeback win over Orozco, the 27-year-old had last fought in April 2022.<\/p>\n