Chris Eubank Jr slapped with huge £426k fine day | Boxing News

Chris Eubank Jr has been slapped with a huge £426,000 fine for weighing in fractionally above the 160 pound weight restrict for his extremely anticipated combat with Conor Benn. The boxer can pay a mega price for failing to drop under the strict restrict for the official weigh-in.

Eubank saved everybody ready for round an hour earlier than taking to the scales. Benn, who’s leaping two weight divisions to face his fierce rival, weighed in at 156.4lbs, almost 4 kilos underneath the weight restrict. However, when Eubank finally arrived for his own weigh in, he first got here in at 160.2lbs. At the second attempt, his weight was 160.05lbs. The 35-year-old can pay the £426k fine for failing to fulfill the requirement, a clause that was inserted into the combat contract.

Cameras weren’t allowed inside the official weigh-in, however a ceremonial equal will happen later this night. The boxers, who’ve needed to be separated by security on quite a few events within the build-up, will combat on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tomorrow.

Eubank Jr and Benn will step onto the scales again tomorrow at round 8am, much less than 12 hours earlier than they meet in a high-profile grudge bout. Neither fighter can are available in at over 170lbs on the morning of the combat with a rehydration clause in place, and Eubank Jr has revealed that he’ll obtain a £750k fine if he does so.

Having fought a lot of his profession on the 147lbs weight restrict, Benn has discovered the weight restrict simpler to achieve. In his final combat, a unanimous factors choice win over Peter Dobson in February 2024, the 28-year-old weighed simply over 150lbs.

The combat is happening three years after the unique date was scheduled. However, Benn examined optimistic for a banned substance and was solely cleared to combat within the UK final November. The build-up has been laced with brutal put-downs over one another’s careers in fiery press conferences, and Eubank Jr cracked an egg in his rival’s face in February.

That prompted his own dad, Chris Eubank Sr, to call for his disqualification.

Both of their fathers, Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn, have been massively profitable boxers and shared an notorious rivalry within the Nineteen Nineties. Eubank Sr gained their unique bout through TKO in 1990 earlier than they punched to a draw three years later.

Boxing icon Eubank Sr has criticised the labelling of the upcoming occasion as a ‘legacy combat’, remarkably insisting that he needs no affiliation with the actions of each fighters. Speaking to The Sun, the 58-year-old stated: “So my son, he smashes an egg on the face of Conor. You want me to be associated? That’s what you call legacy? It’s not legacy. That [action] is bringing the game of boxing into disrepute, that of which would have [had] a disqualifying effect back in my day.

“No different to the language of Conor. The man speaks like he’s a possessed drunk. From a boxing point of view, and the fighters here (Groves and Eubank) will actually back this up, if Junior has only fought three times in three years, and if Conor has only fought three times in three years, it’s hot air.”