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Promoter Eddie Hearn says there is “a huge desire from both camps” to make a Conor Benn-Chris Eubank fight happen.<\/span><\/p>\n He has targeted 23 December and wants it to be in Cardiff – despite Benn not having a licence to fight in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The pair were set to meet 12 months ago – 30 years after their fathers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr fought – but the bout was cancelled after Benn failed two voluntary doping tests.<\/span><\/p>\n “We have every intention to make it happen,” Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live.<\/span><\/p>\n Hearn said Anthony Joshua, whom he also promotes, could feature on the bill too, with a proposed fight against American heavyweight Deontay Wilder not yet confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n Benn, 27, has always insisted he is innocent of intentionally doping. <\/span><\/p>\n A provisional suspension by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) <\/span>was lifted<\/span><\/a> by the independent National Anti-Doping Panel in July, but Ukad and the British Boxing Board of Control <\/span>are appealing against that decision.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n While that process continues, Benn does not hold a licence to fight in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Hearn said plans were being put together with Kalle Sauerland, Eubank’s promoter, for a “big show” on 23 December.<\/span><\/p>\n “Our side with Conor Benn and the side of Kalle Sauerland and Chris Eubank want to move forward and make that fight,” Hearn said.<\/span><\/p>\n “We feel that because of the situation with Conor Benn’s suspension being lifted and winning that case that he should be allowed and able to fight in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n “We’re speaking to the British Boxing Board of Control. We think legally there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be allowed to fight in the UK but obviously it’s their decision.”<\/span><\/p>\n He added the aim was to stage the fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n “If we are not allowed to do that, we will hold the fight internationally but our preference of course is to bring that big fight to Britain,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n “We also have a rather large heavyweight called Anthony Joshua who’s saying: ‘Look, if I’m not fighting Deontay Wilder in January, I would quite like to fight in December as well.’ So we’re trying to work it all out but quite frankly I think it’s very unlikely that we don’t have a show on 23 December.<\/span><\/p>\n “Is it going to feature all of them, is it going to feature one of them? I don’t know, but there’s a huge desire from both camps of Benn\/Eubank to make that fight for 23 December.”<\/span><\/p>\n Last month, Benn won his first fight since the lifting of his provisional doping suspension, a unanimous points victory <\/span>against Rodolfo Orozco in Florida.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Earlier the same month Eubank, 34, <\/span>defeated middleweight rival Liam Smith.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n