Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn are back in each other's crosshairs.

A battle of second-generation contenders is once again in play, as confirmed by all involved parties. There remain some finer details to work out, specifically the date and location, but enough progress has been made to where BOXXER (Eubank Jr's promoter) and Matchroom Boxing (Benn) are confident of a forthcoming announcement.

Both sides confirmed that Turki Alalshikh, whose Riyadh Season group will fund the event, is directly working with both fighters to get the bout over the line.

"All the contracts are being negotiated individually with the fighters," Eddie Hearn, chairman of Matchroom Boxing, confirmed to IFL TV during a joint interview with BOXXER founder/CEO Ben Shalom. "So, I'm not negotiating with [Shalom], and he's not negotiating with me. Otherwise, we wouldn't be in this position."

While a location was not yet established, both sides seemed to believe the fight is big enough to land at London's famed Wembley Stadium.

Eubank Jr. and Benn are both the offspring of famous former two-division titlists.

Chris Eubank Sr. and Nigel Benn were prominent figures in the 1990s U.K. boxing scene, complete with their contentious two fight series. Eubank Sr. won their Nov. 1990 meeting via ninth-round stoppage to claim the WBO middleweight title.

Both fighters subsequently won super middleweight titles, which were at stake in their Oct. 1993 rematch at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester. Their WBC/WBO unification bout ended in a twelve-round draw.

The Ring has learned that much of the frame work is already established for the second-generation clash, including the weight and the billing of the event.

Hearn acknowledged that both details would favor Eubank Jr. (34-3, 25 KOs), The Ring's No. 5 middleweight contender from Brighton, England. It would be advertised as Eubank-Benn and will take place at middleweight.

ESPN.com's Mike Coppinger reported that a ten-pound rehydration limit is also in place for the same-day weight-check. Neither fighter can weigh more than 170 pounds during the commission-supervised weigh-in on the morning of the fight.

Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) regularly campaigns at welterweight, though his last two fights have taken place closer to the 154-pound junior middleweight limit. The Ilford native was publicly campaigning for a shot at a welterweight title before Alalshikh—the new owner of The Ring magazine and website—became directly involved to resurrect the grudge match.

Eubank and Benn were originally due to meet In Oct. 2022 at The O2 in London. They agreed on a 157-pound catchweight for the bout.

The fight was canceled just days before amidst a wave of negative press surrounding previous positive drug tests produced by Benn for the banned substance Clomiphene. The matter became the subject of a lengthy legal battle with the United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) agency, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) and National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP).

Benn was not licensed in the UK for more than a year as a result. He fought twice in the U.S. during that period, after producing multiple clean tests to where he was able to remove a temporary suspension imposed by the Association of Boxing Champions (ABC).

Both fights took place above the welterweight limit. Benn defeated Rodolfo Orozco (33-3-3 at the time) in their Sept. 2023 meeting at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. ironically, Orozco subsequently tested positive for a banned substance surrounding the fight.

His lone fight since then was a ten-round, unanimous decision over unbeaten Peter Dobson, who was 16-0 at the time of their Feb. 3 DAZN headliner from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

Eubank moved on from the Benn drama to fight three times in that span.

His first one out the gate was a stunning fourth-round knockout defeat to former WBO 154-pound titlist Liam Smith in their Jan. 2023 meeting. Eubank was able to get it back in blood, in the form of a tenth-round knockout in their Sept. 2023 rematch. Both fights took place at AO Arena in Manchester, England.

A 13-month inactive period preceded Eubank's most recent bout, a seventh-round knockout of former middleweight title challenger Kamil Szeremeta (25-3-2, 8 KOs) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The fight took place last Oct. 12 on the Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol undercard, Eubank's first direct experience with Riyadh Season.

It opened the door to resurrect a fight that seemed dead in the water but is now—according to Hearn and Shalom—nearing an imminent announcement.