media’s lowdown on the boxers, the family rivalry fuelling the bout, the controversies and fight night details for the all-British showdown in London.
A decades-old boxing rivalry between two families is set for a revival when Conor Benn takes on Chris Eubank Jr in a grudge match that has been over two years in the making.
The British fighters will finally meet in the ring after their initial bout in 2022 was cancelled amid controversial circumstances.
Here’s everything you need to know about the fight:
The fight is on Saturday, April 26.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, United Kingdom, will host the fight.
The first fight on the undercard is expected to begin at 7pm local time (18:00 GMT). The ring walk for Eubank Jr-Benn will begin at approximately 10:30pm local time (21:30 GMT) and the bout will begin shortly thereafter.
media Sport will provide live text updates and photo coverage of the undercard and main fight from 17:45 GMT.
The fight will be livestreamed pay-per-view on DAZN.
While organisers have not revealed the figures, the total purse is believed to be $23m with a 60-40 split of the main fight tilted towards Eubank Jr.
Son of British boxing great and former middleweight boxing champion Chris Eubank, Eubank Jr is a professional boxer from Hove, a southern seaside town in the UK.
Since making his professional debut in 2011, the 35-year-old is the International Boxing Organization’s (IBO) reigning middleweight champion and has also previously held the IBO’s super middleweight title and the World Boxing Organization ‘s interim middleweight title.
Fighting with an orthodox stance, Eubank Jr is the top-ranked middleweight boxer in the UK and third in the world.
Benn, too, has boxing flowing through his blood as his father Nigel Benn was a two-weight champion in the 1990s. Based in the East London suburb of Ilford, the 28-year-old turned professional in 2016.
While Benn has yet to lose a professional fight, the boxer has faced a fair share of controversy, having failed a doping test in 2022.
The then-rising star of British boxing was suspended by the UK’s anti-doping agency for using clomifene, a fertility drug deemed prohibited. His suspension was in November 2024.
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