Conor Benn said that the fear of losing leads him to fight Chris Eubank Jr. on Saturday.
Benn (23-0, 14 KO) and Eubank Jr. (34-3, 25 KO) collide at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in a very anticipated and malicious fight three years after the cancellation of the original planned fight after Benn did not pass two medication tests. Since then, he was cleaned for fighting in Great Britain.
In the time of canceling, the contempt between them increased, along with the competition between their fathers, Chris Eubank Sr. and Nigel Bennem, who fought twice in the 1990s.
Both for the first time during a week of fighting for the first time in London in London. Benn said it was a fear of losing, not the joy of winning, motivated him.
“I’m afraid they are losing all the time. This is what he pulls me out of bed at five in the morning. I’m afraid he is losing,” said Benn.
“I work in this way. Some people … love to win. That’s why I train strenuous, fear of losing. Especially for this man.
“Of course you have doubts, fears, worries. Ultimately. I had my whole career. This is a natural part of this process.
“Am I very confident? I am very confident. As always confident because I put on a job.”
The fight will be questioned at 160 pounds with a 10-pound hydration re-clause.
Benn, a welterweight, accelerates two divisions to fight, but both men repaid the weight factor.
“I still hear these two classes, he does not give two weight classes, he does not give two classes of weight,” said Eubank Jr.
“His last fight was 156 pounds; for three years he was not a welterweight. This fight is not about size or weight. It’s about skills, sacrifice, specialist knowledge.
“All these areas in which I stand out and have many more years of experience than Conor Benn. It will be a division factor.”
Benn also said that weight would not be a problem for him.
“My last two fights were 153 years elderly. I’m a welterweight weight,” he said.
“My best performances came at 147 [pounds]. I feel sturdy at the age of 147, but I feel sturdy enough in 160 [pounds] To make this man’s number and then drop back. I want this title of WBC champion. “