Conor Benn will box Chris Eubank Jr. on April 26th in a continuation of their family feud.
Conor Benn will put his undefeated record on the line in a bid to even the score with the Eubank name as he faces Chris Eubank Jr. later this month.
Benn has spent much of his training camp for the fight in Mallorca, where he spent a lot of his childhood, but it is actually in Australia that he began boxing in the same gym as a world champion heavyweight.
Conor Benn trained under same coach as Australia’s first heavyweight champion
Benn trained as an amateur at Vinegar Hill Boxing Club, home to coach Rod Williams. He held an amateur record of 20-2 before going pro.
Williams famously guided Australian heavyweight Lucas Browne to stardom, as he captured the WBA Regular world title in 2016 as he beat Ruslan Chagaev.
Chagaev had beaten Nikolai Valuev, the giant who defeated Evander Holyfield, and had shared the ring with Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin.
Browne now holds a record of 31-6, having lost brutally to Dillian Whyte, as well as being stopped by Jarrell Miller and Dave Allen.
Browne holds a first-round KO win over Joseph Parker‘s former foe Junior Fa.
Dillian Whyte laid out Lucas Browne with punch-perfect shot
In 2018, an undefeated Browne faced 22-1 Whyte in London’s O2 Arena.
After six rounds, Whyte, whose losses have all come by uppercuts, landed a punch-perfect combination that ended in a left hook, rendering Browne completely unconscious and out of the fight.
Some say this was the best performance of Whyte’s career. Whyte, who became a father at 13, is currently rebuilding his career after a loss to Tyson Fury and period of inactivity.