A POTENTIAL fight between Canelo Alvarez and Chris Eubank Jr is back on the table.
Eubank had been in the running to face the Mexican superstar in September but turned down the deal offered to him.
“For a guy who’s making 35 to 50 million a fight, don’t offer me the numbers you were offering me,” Eubank said earlier this month. “To a normal guy in the street, that’s life changing. It’s not life changing to me, and I know what’s being made everywhere else, so don’t give me those numbers.”
Eubank shook off some ring rust with a seventh-round knockout win against Kamil Szeremeta on October 12. Afterwards Eubank’s biggest rival Conor Benn entered the ring prompting some verbal exchanges between the two.
Eubank’s promoter Ben Shalom has today told Sky Sports that “small conversations” have begun for a fight against Canelo. Last month he unified super-middleweight champion won his fifth consecutive fight, since losing to Dmitry Bivol, beating Edgar Berlanga by unanimous decision.
Next year Eubank hopes to fight Canelo and Conor Benn despite the latter still currently without a British boxing licence after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in October 2022. And the 35-year-old believes he has what it takes to make him the face of British boxing but needs legacy defining wins to do so.
“It is hard to compete with heavyweights, they have famously been the pinnacle and in [Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury] you have two successful guys and huge characters. But they have kind of had their time,” he told Sky Sports.
“So if I do what I am supposed to do and what I am capable of in these next few fights, I absolutely believe there is a strong chance I could become the face of boxing, British boxing especially.”