CONOR BENN has revealed that he will fight Chris Eubank Jr in an 18-ft ring, rather than the standard 20-ft squared circle.
The bitter rivals will at Stadium this Saturday night.
and have agreed to fight at the 160lbs middleweight limit, following the controversy over their scrapped 157lbs catchweight scrap in 2022.
Ahead of their much-anticipated dust up, Benn has revealed the contractual demand that he made when agreeing to the fight.
The 28-year-old told Sky Sports: “The only thing I asked for in my contract was an 18-foot ring.
“Coming in there to steamroll him? Of course I am. You think I'm coming in there to muck about?
“If you think you're faster than me, prove it. You think you're stronger than me, prove it.
“You think you're smarter than me, prove it. Come and meet me in the middle.”
Promoter added: “It'll be a nice small ring to have a tear-up in.
“It might suit Eubank. He may decide to stand and have a shootout.
“Conor can box, by the way, he's got great legs and his movement's very good. It's not like he just comes forward.
“There are very few fighters that are as sharp as Conor Benn early in a fight like that.
“Conor tries to end the fight in the first round, that's why he's so exciting.
“Eubank is not one of those fighters that starts fast out of the gate. Look at the fight, it's a cracking example.
“If he decides to stand and trade, it's all over in three rounds, one way or the other. It will be the British Hagler-Hearns. That's what it'll be.”
The rivalry between Eubank Jr and Benn stems from the bouts shared by their fathers during the 1990s.
Despite this, Sr will not be in his son's corner and has been extremely vocal in his opposition to the match-up due to their weight difference.
Speaking to SunSport alongside his nephew Harlem this week, the British boxing icon , citing his late brother Simon.
‘WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM'
The 58-year-old said: “My son probably walks around at around 180lb and he has to boil himself down to 160lb.
“People don’t understand what it means for Junior to get down to 160lb, at his age. They don’t understand the drying out.
“Junior is now 35 and trying to get down to 160lb and I know what that feels like. I know about the dehydration and the damage it does to fighters.
“I am more concerned about that than anything else. I don’t want my son getting down to 160lb. And that is why I have spoken about people trying to murder my boy by boiling him down to 157lb.
“Trying to boil my son down to 157lb a few years ago, would have killed him.
“You might think the word ‘killed’ is a bit strong but my brother is dead from .
“He lost his life from boxing, with frontal lobe dementia.
“In the end, Harlem was feeding him with a baby bottle, he had to feed his own father.”;
