Chris Eubank Jr tells Liam Smith he will be easier to fight than Conor Benn

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Chris Eubank Jr says helium volition lone request to amusement "50% of what I tin do" to bushed Liam Smith successful their middleweight combat successful Manchester connected 21 January.

Speaking astatine a quality conference, helium taunted chap Briton Smith, saying helium was an easier hostile than Benn.

"Conor was an unknown, unpredictable, young and undefeated," helium said. "I cognize what Liam is."

Eubank was wearing a overgarment emblazoned with the logos of a fast-food concatenation helium said had promised to supply him arsenic overmuch fried chickenhearted arsenic helium could devour portion successful grooming camp.

And the erstwhile IBO super-middleweight champion wasted nary clip successful trying to agitate 34-year-old Smith.

"I deliberation 50% of what I tin bash volition beryllium capable to bushed Liam," helium said.

"The atrocious feline is back. He ne'er cheats, helium ne'er lies, helium ne'er cuts immoderate corners but he's inactive the atrocious guy."

Smith - a erstwhile satellite champion astatine light-middleweight - responded: "If helium turns up astatine 50%, I'll hitch the level with him."

Benn casts shadiness implicit intriguing brushwood - investigation

For a quality league astir Eubank v Smith, Benn's sanction was ne'er acold from anyone's lips.

It has been astir 2 months since it emerged Benn had failed two voluntary cause tests and his combat with Eubank was postponed 2 days earlier it was owed to instrumentality place. He has since fixed up his boxing licence and present faces a ineligible conflict to wide his name.

Eubank has moved connected rapidly to different home rival, but the Benn saga predictably formed a large shadiness implicit his instrumentality to the nationalist eye.

He opened the quality league with a thinly veiled excavation astatine Benn - who insists helium is simply a "clean" combatant - by saying helium "never cheats" and "never cuts corners".

Smith, too, was anxious to bring up Benn - asking wherefore determination was a rematch clause for this fight, but hadn't been erstwhile Eubank fought Benn.

And, of course, determination is the information Eubank's "50%" and KFC taunts were ideas calved arsenic helium verbally sparred with Benn.

While Smith v Eubank whitethorn not bid the aforesaid fanfare arsenic Eubank v Benn, the combat is an intriguing encounter.

Both men person 32 wins, are separated successful property by conscionable a year, and cognize however to enactment connected a thrilling fight. Both are successful fantabulous signifier - Smith with 3 stoppage wins successful a enactment and Eubank connected a six-fight winning streak.

The combat has each the hallmarks of an all-British classic, adjacent if the shade of Eubank v Benn continues to linger.

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