Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn 2: British Boxing Board of Management has no challenge with 160lb weight restrict for rematch | Boxing Information

The British Boxing Board of Management has no challenge with the Chris Eubank Jr versus Conor Benn rematch going down at 160lbs.

Eubank Jr appeared to battle severely making middleweight forward of the primary combat with Benn in April.

He revealed, too, that after the combat he was hospitalised as a consequence of dehydration.

Eubank Jr did are available fractionally over the burden restrict the day earlier than the primary bout with Benn after which stirred controversy when he posted footage on social media that appeared to point out him utilizing a sauna.

The British Boxing Board of Management has held a listening to on the matter and fined Eubank Jr £10,000 for “misuse of social media”.

Robert Smith, the overall secretary of the British Boxing Board of Management, advised Sky Sports activities: “Earlier than a contest you must declare whether or not you’ve got used a sauna and he stated no and that is on a doc.

“Then clearly all the things went out [on social media] however we had all of the verify weights, and so on [ahead of the fight, so] we have been very happy that he’d made the burden alright. All his verify weights have been okay.”

Smith defined: “The coach [of Eubank Jr] stated they’d no challenge with the burden, they did not use any speedy weight-making measures. So clearly what he put out on social media was not what we would been advised and subsequently that is what he was fined for.

“They’re notified that our docs are very involved about these items [use of saunas and rapid weight-making measures]. They need to be conscious of that and subsequently it is a full contradiction of what he’d already advised us and what we would put out to them. That is why the high quality happened.”

Smith added: “He solely failed the burden as a result of he was 40 minutes late for the weigh-in.

“To be honest he was a gnat’s whisker chubby. If he’d had been there 10 minutes earlier he would have made it.

“He was given a extreme reprimand with regard to turning up for the weigh-in late and being chubby.”

Eubank’s rematch with Benn has been introduced for September 20 and is anticipated to happen below the identical stipulations as the primary combat – at middleweight with a rehydration clause obliging them to be not more than 10lbs over the 160lb restrict on the morning of the combat.

The Board has no challenge with the rematch being set for 160lbs.

“No. He is a giant middleweight and a small super-middleweight. He is caught within the center, that is only a reality. The final couple of kilos is all the time the final bit to lose for any boxer at any weight. He would not have gotten it unsuitable if he’d turned up on time,” Smith stated.

Nor will the governing physique take any steps to stop the rehydration clause from being imposed. IBF world title fights, for instance, have an analogous situation for a further fight-day weigh-in.

“It falls consistent with the IBF, they have sliding scale on the weights. [In this case] it is set by the promoters, an settlement with the promoters and the events,” Smith stated.

“Each of them have been inside it no drawback in any respect [for the first fight]. So I’ve received no drawback with that. It isn’t one thing inside our guidelines, that is an settlement between the events. If that is what they need to do, high quality.

“We do not do it. The IBF do it, [this] wasn’t an IBF championship it was a part of the promotional settlement, a personal settlement. We’re very pleased with that.”

Eubank Jr would wish to pay his high quality, which matches into the Board’s charity account, to be granted a UK licence to field.

Smith famous: “They’re each medically suspended in the meanwhile as a result of it was such a tricky combat. They have to be medically cleared to field anyway. However that is regular process.

“Till we’re happy his licence is so as, then clearly he will not get a licence.”