It is difficult to know where to start, but in the end, Chris Eubank Jr sank on his knees while his father stood proudly by his side, while Conor Benn kissed his own father and closed his eyes, perhaps wishing to drift in a dream world far from the real nightmare around him.
Also around him were 67,000 souls, 67,000 witnesses of his disappearance after so many threats, so much fat, so much aggressiveness – an assault that could not simply carry the decisive blow that he wanted for years. Don't be mistaken, it was not a categorical disappearance; In fact, the 28 -year -old had valiantly fought in a boxing Match that looked more like a theatrical melodrama than a sports competition. Instead, its fall took place on 12 roundsWith the victory so often appearing in its reckless take.
As violent as Benn was at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and as desperately as he continued Glory, Eubank Jr was a little better. Sometimes the 35 -year -old seemed left – just as he looked mentally absent on the scale on Friday, after an exhausting weight cup – but he never really left. He seemed to be stimulated by something inexplicable, something intangible, but if we had to provide a romantic response, they could come across the presence of his father.
At the eleventh hour, in a twist of the intrigue worthy of this eccentric idol, Eubank SR arrived on the site with his son, despite the public criticism of this match and the disparity of weight between JR and Benn as recently as this week, and despite his allege of his distance from his offspring.
Thirty-two years after Nigel and Sr completed their own bitter rivalry, attracting Manchester three years after SR won in Birmingham, the enemies who became friends shared a ring. This time, everyone stood behind their son, supporting.
With this last touch, the drama was ensured at the end, which was appropriate since he had accompanied JR and Conor's Feud from the start. In 2022, their fight collapsed in a few days of notice on the relevance that Benn had rendered two results of unfavorable drug test. This Friday, Eubank Jr missed weight of 0.05 lb and was forced to pay £ 375,000. A row of gloves even followed the day before this competition. And the drama was still not complete until a smiling SR came out of a car with his son. This scene sparked a noisy response from the crowd, with a chatter dispersed in the stands for minutes. When the screens showed that the Benns were looking at the arrival of the Eubanks, the value of the box office was not only made but outdated.
But there was still box office to come.
At first, Eubank JR – The natural average weight, despite its difficulties on the suggested scales – sought to exploit its size advantage over Benn, which was fighting two divisions above than usual. Benn's movements were pronounced and exaggerated, while the EuBank JR were compact and tidy. As the fight advanced, however, one could briefly have read these signs not as examples of the technique of each man, but rather his physical state, I seem somewhat exhausted.
The first examples of Benn's wickedness really appeared in the second round, while he put Eubank Jr in a straight hook and then won a perfect cross. In the third setting, a left hook had the Eubank Jr on the unstable legs, before the British hit themselves to the canvas. In the fourth, EUBANK JR started to tweak in Benn, before retreating the head of the younger fighter with an intelligent rear uppercut.
Benn speaking in the fifth, the boxers were warned by the referee of their polished conversation. Later in the context, Benn was down a shift, before Eubank Jr made the crowd to sing his name after attaching Benn to support the ropes and mark him with a hook on the rebound. The sixth brought a frantic exchange, neither the first nor the last, while the seventh saw EUBANK JR fold the head of BENN with the rights and the right left lines while the natural natural weight seemed to be fading.
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However, Benn then produced his best lap. He started well in the eighth, and after swallowing a cold air from London, he downgraded Eubank Jr with a right hook. Eubank Jr continued to throw but did not have his legs under him. He somehow survived the buzzer, throwing all along, and it was at this moment that Sr was calmly walking towards the steps and went up to the corner of his son to offer advice.
Everything he said worked. While Eubank Jr was almost in trouble after eating a pair of hooks from Benn and supported a cup in the ninth, he continued to rush like a zombie in the 10th – with spite and despite the attacks to come, ending with Dazing Benn with an uppercut and a right hook. Eubank Jr launched with an increasingly large volume, which he suffered in the 11th.
There were also intermittent fire combinations in these towers, and the final frame started with a voluntary touch of gloves, a very different image of the opening of the fight, when the rivals had to be distant from each other. The two fighters began to land with their head as much as their hands on the last round, then the crowd broke out while Benn was swaying and staggered with his mouth Agape, graceful of the violence on which Eubank Jr flocked.
After the last bell, Conor and Eubank SR shared respect in a touching moment, but soon the scores were revealed, and the only father that Conor wanted was his.
It was perhaps fate in a unique rivalry like this: ecstasy in the ring for the Eubanks and the pain for the benns.
