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Conor Benn has set his sights on difficult WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios, irrespective of the end result of his rematch against Chris Eubank Jr. The two British fighters will conflict for a second time on Saturday night at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London. Their initial encounter came about in April, where Benn began promisingly but finally got here up short, shedding on factors to his opponent.

The ‘Destroyer’ enters the rematch carrying more weight than his adversary and is decided to equalise the collection. However, ought to he defeat Eubank Jr, Benn has ruled out a trilogy bout. Rather, he harbours his own ambitions and is planning a return to welterweight in pursuit of world championship glory.

He has particularly named current welterweight champion Barrios as his desired opponent. ‘El Azteca’ has been inactive since his controversial draw with boxing icon Manny Pacquiao in July.

Discussing his future aspirations, Benn told Boxing Social: “I want to fight for the WBC world title next.

“For me, that’s the precedence. I do know Mauricio Sulaiman will bless that fight, given historical past and my dad with the WBC world title. See if we will make that Barrios fight next, immediately, offering Barrios desires the fight, which we have had communication from him and his workforce and that’s the fight that will extremely seemingly occur next for me at 147.”

In a separate interview with Sky Sports, he doubled down on his comments, adding: “I feel Chris will retire after this fight. He’s preventing a welterweight. Just look at the panorama. He is not going to keep at 160lbs and fight a Janibek [Alimkhanuly] or a [Hamzah] Sheeraz, for half the money. It does not make sense.

“He’s fighting a welterweight. I’ll drop back down to welterweight and carry on pursuing my goals and dreams at 147. This is my final fight at 160.

“My aim is to win a world title at welterweight. Right now my aim is to get back down to welterweight. I’ve the best workforce, nutritionist, a chef to get back down to 147. I’m going to the WBC conference in Thailand straight after the fight to get that sorted.

“There’s plenty of world title opportunities for me to get, whether it’s Barrios, [Ryan] Garcia, Rolly Romero, these are the fights that are being talked about after the fight, straightaway. Brian Norman, any of these guys. I’ll fight any of these guys.”

Benn’s most current bout at welterweight came about three years in the past against Chris van Heerden. The British fighter required just two rounds to secure a knockout victory over the South African.

Despite the prolonged absence from welterweight competitors, Benn maintains he can comfortably return to the 147lbs division. But at current, his consideration is firmly on Eubank Jr. “If I was scared or not a proper fighting man, would I have given the public this fight? Probably not, no. I’m the one jumping up two weights at the end of the day,” he said.

“He couldn’t lose the first one, you’re fighting a welterweight for God’s sake. You’ve got to think that was the second time going 12 rounds in my whole career. I’m about to tuck him in on Saturday.”

When is Conor Benn vs Chris Eubank Jr 2?

The 12-round middleweight rematch is scheduled for Saturday, November 15. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London will host the event once more.

Official timings have yet to be confirmed – but the undercard is predicted to start at around 5pm UK time. For the main event, ringwalks are seemingly to happen at roughly 9:50pm UK time.

The fight shall be shown live and completely on DAZN pay-per-view.