{"id":13646,"date":"2025-04-25T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/chris-eubank-jr-misses-weight-for-conor-been-fight-and-fined-375000\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:35:34","slug":"chris-eubank-jr-misses-weight-for-conor-been-fight-and-fined-375000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/chris-eubank-jr-misses-weight-for-conor-been-fight-and-fined-375000\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr misses weight for Conor Been fight and fined \u00a3375,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Chris Eubank Jr will be fined \u00a3375,000 after missing the weight by just 0.05lb for Saturday&#8217;s grudge match with Conor Benn.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old weighed 0.2lb over the 11st 6lb limit on the first attempt and was still too heavy the second time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A trimmed and toned Benn \u2013 who has operated at welterweight for most of his career \u2013 came in lighter than expected at 11st 2lb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eubank and Benn are both bound by a rehydration clause that prohibits them from weighing more than 12st 1lb on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Show me the money&#8221;, Benn, 28, posted in a video on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weigh-in took place behind closed doors at a London hotel on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be a ceremonial weigh-in, which will be open to the public, in Islington on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight is due to take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cm259y9l29no\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Eubank Jr will be fined \u00a3375,000 after missing the weight by just 0.05lb for Saturday&#8217;s grudge match with Conor Benn. The 35-year-old weighed 0.2lb over the 11st 6lb limit on the first attempt and was still too heavy the second time. A trimmed and toned Benn \u2013 who has operated at welterweight for most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13648,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions\/13648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}