Chris Eubank returns to stop Kamil Szeremeta and confront Conor Benn | Jai Opetaia stops Jack Massey | Boxing News

Chris Eubank Jr. returned to action with a win over Kamil Szeremeta, before getting into another altercation with Conor Benn.

He dropped Szeremeta a total of four times before his rival Benn, under provisional suspension for failing a drug test against Eubank Jr. had to fight, dived into the ring and Eubank charged in.

With his first fight since his revenge victory over Liam Smith thirteen months ago, and his first with new trainer Jonathon Banks, Eubank Jr started the match brightly.

He tagged Szeremeta with a double jab to the body and head. Eubank put through a neat right cross and started stringing combinations of punches together.

The Pole dropped a nice one-two in the first round. Szeremta came out of it though and got behind a good combination of his own, a double punch that set up his cross.

The fight intensified and by the third round a cut had appeared on Eubank’s right eyebrow.

Eubank Jr. threw a series of punches in the next round and Szeremeta started to feel those hits.

He withstood the attack and beckoned Eubank during the fight. But he did not entice Eubank to hurry.

While he managed the cut, Eubank also began to take control of the courageous opponent. Szeremeta connected his punches and caught Eubank’s chin in the sixth round, but he shook it off.

However, Eubank’s jab paved the way for a solid cross. A brilliant single right cross shot Szeremeta off his feet for the second time.

A huge right uppercut brought the Pole’s head up, but the bell rang to end the round and call Eubank away.

A left hook early in the seventh round hit Szeremeta and a body shot sent him to a knee.

Eubank ripped a punishing, heavy left uppercut to the body, sending Szeremeta down for the fourth time. That was enough for referee John Latham.

“I had a good time there, I think I could have finished it in the first one, but it’s been a year, I wanted to get some ring rust off,” Eubank said of his fight.

When Benn appeared before him immediately afterwards, they went head to head.

“This is the fight everyone wants to see, 168, 170,” he told Benn, “there’s no need to push me anymore, son. I want you next!”

Opetaia dominates Massey

Australian Jai Opetaia impressively retained the IBF world cruiserweight title as European champion Jack Massey was knocked out in the sixth round.

Opetaia controlled the action brilliantly. The southpaw is mobile, but he focused his movement on aggression. He kept coming, stringing up hurtful left crosses and hitting them neatly into the body again and again, draining Massey’s energy reserves further and further.

He had the opportunity to confuse Massey and hit that long cross on his head too.

A cut on Massey’s left eye spread blood across his cheek and nose, a sign of the punishment he suffered.

Opetaia turned up the pressure another degree in the fifth round, with a right hook catching Massey’s jaw. That hurt the brave Briton, who had to get another shot into his body.

In the sixth round, Opetaia went up a gear. He approached Massey and knocked him around the ring. The challenger’s trainer saw something that alarmed him and he jumped onto the ring apron to throw in the towel and pull his man out.

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