Chris Eubank Jr’s promoter, Ben Shalom, states that September isn’t a superb month for a stadium struggle in opposition to famous person Canelo Alvarez within the UK.
Shalom feels staging the Canelo vs. Eubank Jr. struggle in September would battle with the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois conflict, which is scheduled for the twenty first of that month at Wembley Stadium.
Shalom stated the provide was for Eubank Jr (33-3, 24 KOs) to face Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) in Las Vegas. If Canelo had his eyes on preventing within the UK, he won’t have been enthusiastic about bringing Eubank Jr. to the States as a result of it’s not a matchup that American followers would need to watch reside.
Canelo can struggle many alternative fighters and generate extra ticket gross sales within the U.S. than a struggle with the 34-year-old Eubank Jr. The one curiosity in a struggle with Eubank Jr. is whether it is staged within the UK. Apart from that, Eubank Jr. is a waste of time.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if Shalom will dig his heels into the sand and refuse to budge on his resistance to staging the Canelo-Eubank Jr. struggle within the UK in September. They might speak themselves out of the struggle with Canelo and be left with simply the Conor Benn and Kell Brook matchups, which don’t examine.
“The issue we’ve had with that one is that with the ‘AJ’ card on September 21, it’s onerous to examine one other stadium card every week both aspect of that,” stated promoter Shalom to Boxingscene about it being a good suggestion to stage a struggle between Canelo and Eubank Jr. within the UK in a stadium struggle as a result of Joshua vs. Dubois conflict on September twenty first, which might be too shut and damage ticket gross sales.
This could be Eubank Jr’s final likelihood to struggle for a world title and it undoubtedly could be the one alternative he’ll get to struggle Canelo. Eubank Jr. already misplaced out on an opportunity to face a major Gennadiy Golovkin in 2016 when the talks slowed. Promoter Eddie Hearn swooped in and matched Kell Brook in opposition to Golovkin.
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