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EUBANK DREAMS OF RING RETURN

2nd June 2012, 08:16am

Eubank (l) and Benn in their hey day

Eubank (l) and Benn in their hey day

Chris Eubank has revealed he dreams of a return to boxing.

The 45-year-old, a former WBO middleweight and super-middleweight champion, says he would love to fight old rival Nigel Benn on the same bill as his son, middleweight Christopher Jr.

Eubank told The Sun: "I'm a light-heavyweight now and when I look at 47-year-old Bernard Hopkins I think, 'If he can do it, why can't I?'

"To get back into the gym? Wow. To be hit again, to be hit in the chest, to be able to withstand a shot to the face, that is a dream for me, it is my fantasy.

"I was even talking to Nigel Benn and I said: 'Come on kid, we've got to get it back on'.

"It would be a fantasy for me to actually box again, especially on the same bill as my son."

He added: "First I would needed public backing. I would never want to do anything to compromise the respect I seem to have as a boxer."

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