{"id":9945,"date":"2025-02-26T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2025-02-26T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:57:22","slug":"british-boxing-legend-spotted-strangling-chris-eubank-jr-during-conor-benn-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/british-boxing-legend-spotted-strangling-chris-eubank-jr-during-conor-benn-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"British boxing legend spotted strangling Chris Eubank Jr during Conor Benn chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Benn Snr grabbed Eubank Jr by the throat as security hauled his son away (Picture: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

British boxing legend Nigel Benn was spotted springing to his son\u2019s defence to try and strangle Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> during Tuesday\u2019s chaotic press conference.<\/p>\n

Eubank Jr and Benn will follow in their fathers\u2019 footsteps and meet in the ring on 26 April in what has developed into one of the most vicious rivalries in the sport.<\/p>\n

The two came face-to-face at a press conference in Manchester last night with tensions inevitably boiling over as Eubank Jr slapped his rival with an egg on stage, sparking a wild brawl.<\/a><\/p>\n

Benn Snr has been in his son\u2019s corner at various stages of his career and was in attendance at Thursday\u2019s press conference. He and Eubank Snr shared one of British boxing\u2019s most enthralling rivalries over 30 years ago<\/a>, captivating the nation across two bouts in 1990 and 1993.<\/p>\n

As security waded in to separate the two boxers, footage released later in the evening showed Benn Snr making a beeline for Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n

The former super-middleweight champion is seen furiously wrapping his hands around the 35-year-old\u2019s neck before a member of security pushes him away.<\/p>\n

Benn\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn was also in the thick of it, seen arguing with Ben Shalom, Eubank Jr\u2019s promoter, before shoving him on stage.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Eubank Jr shattered an egg across Benn’s face (Picture: Sky Sport)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After some calm had been restored, Hearn urged anyone in the building to avoid crossing paths with an irate Benn Snr for the rest of the night.<\/p>\n

\u2018Everything he [Eubank Jnr] does is pre-meditated,\u2019 Hearn told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

\u2018He has sat at the press conference the whole time with an egg and he’s slapped Conor Benn in the eye. I’ve got to be honest with you, I thought it was a glass because when it smashed, bits were flying everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u2018The world we live in today, it will go viral, people will think it’s quite funny but I will tell you one thing, in the fight game, everything changes now.<\/p>\n

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Benn Snr was in attendance (Picture: Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018You don’t wanna be backstage right now. If you see Nigel Benn tonight, run. These aren’t normal people, they don’t have a cup of tea and forget about it. This had bad blood and everything has changed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don’t know if we can have Thursday’s press conference now because it will be attack on sight.\u2019<\/p>\n

Eubank Jr and Benn were originally scheduled to meet in the ring in October 2022 before the latter returned two failed drugs tests, forcing the all-British contest to be abandoned just days before the opening bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The WBC said in 2023 that a ‘highly-elevated consumption of eggs’ was a ‘reasonable explanation’ for his failed test. Benn finally saw his suspension lifted in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benn Snr grabbed Eubank Jr by the throat as security hauled his son away (Picture: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) British boxing legend Nigel Benn was spotted springing to his son\u2019s defence to try and strangle Chris Eubank Jr during Tuesday\u2019s chaotic press conference. Eubank Jr and Benn will follow in their fathers\u2019 footsteps and meet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}