Conor Benns true colours as he explains comments | Boxing News

Conor Benn has opened up on what he mentioned to Chris Eubank Sr after the boxing icon made a shock look at his son’s bout on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday evening. Eubank Jrdefeated Benn in a 12-round middleweight basic, successful 116-112 on all three of the judges’ scorecards.

Yet, Eubank Sr’s shock exhibiting dominated the headlines on the evening. Eubank Sr was massively essential of the combat within the construct up, which got here after years of not chatting with his son. Eubank Jr additionally touched upon their fractured relationship previous to the combat. Yet they had been all smiles in London, and Benn has claimed that seeing the pair reconcile was a spotlight of the night.

“I looked at Chris [Eubank] Snr, and I grabbed him by the neck and said ‘mate, I’m so happy you’re here, I’m so happy you turned up’,” Benn mentioned after the combat. “You know because outside of everything else, outside of all the noise and promotion, and the fight, your relationship with your dad never goes.

“That’s all the time there, that is long-standing, that is actual – with out boxing. You know, what’s boxing? Because I’d choose the connection with my dad over boxing any day of the week. So if this has introduced them collectively, then that is price its weight in gold.”

Benn, the son of boxing icon Nigel, helped deliver an epic battle with Eubank Jr in front of 67,000 fans. While Benn started fast with Eubank Jr looking laboured, the tide turned in the fourth as Eubank began to land his left hook at will.

However, the pair traded blows, and even a clash of heads, as they served up a final round for the ages. Afterwards, Eubank Jr celebrated wildly, dropping to his knees in ecstasy, while Benn fell into his dad’s arms.

Previously, Eubank Sr had hit out at his son’s conduct in the build-up to the fight, labelling him a “shame”, after Eubank Jr split an egg over Benn in their pre-fight face-off.

Yet after the fight, Jr paid tribute to his great rival and his father, referencing his two legendary fights with Nigel Benn from the 1990 and 1993. “I knew I used to be succesful of that. I simply needed somebody to deliver it out of me,” he said.

“I did not anticipate Conor to be the man to do this. I did not know he had that in him, I assumed I’d break him early. I underestimated him, I did not put together for a combat like that.

“The fact our fathers fought years ago brought out a different spirit and I am happy to have my father with me. He needed to be here. All this is because of him.”