‘Expensive price to pay’: Benn and Eubank Jr react to missed weight

Conor Benn has no sympathy for Chris Eubank Jr coming in just a fraction over the 160 pound weight limit.

Following today’s weigh-in for tomorrow’s main event between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn, both fighters spoke a bit about Eubank Jr missing weight which will cost him a £375,000 penalty. Benn says Eubank Jr should have made the weight spot on given that he’s long been fighting at middleweight, while Eubank Jr himself says the significant financial penalty for being just barely over the limit only shows the kind of people he’s dealing with.

Benn on Eubank Jr missing weight

“I mean, it’s an expensive price to pay, isn’t it? You know, he’s disciplined so he should’ve made the weight. He’s made this weight his whole career, he’s expecting a little bit of sympathy but he ain’t got no sympathy around here.”

Benn on coming in at only 156 pounds

“156 is a weight I feel comfortable at. I’m not a 160 fighter, I’m not a 154 fighter, I’m a 147 fighter. So for me, I’m just going to go in there and use my speed, explosiveness, my ferocity — it’s the way I fight. For me it’s not at 160.”

Eubank Jr on coming in just barely over the 160 limit

“Listen, it is what it is. If they’re going to take a half million off of me for being 0.5 pounds off of the limit that’s just what it is — that’s the people that Eddie Hearn and Matchroom and Conor Benn are. At the end of the day weight have no relevance to what happens tomorrow night. I’m going to go out there and stop this guy.

“The rehydration clause is still in place so I have to watch what I eat, I have to watch what I drink. But, again, all these things are set up to distract, to displace, to try to get me off of track. None of it will work.”