Chris Eubank Jr And Conor Benn Write a story built on pressure against pain.
After the February fireworks, Thursday's final press conference At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, there was a much more “parliamentary” matter. There were no eggsNo punches, nothing all. Instead, it seemed that the two murderers, locked in a hereditary rivalry, were fully committed to resolving this in the ring and only the ring.
Many have been made of the weight chosen for the fight. Benn, 28, Raise two divisions from Welter weightsomething that has more than drawn the anger of Chris Sr, who marked the fight a “shame” To fear, his son could end up making serious and permanent damage to his much smaller opponent. But faced with the prospect of a unique rehydration clause This will lead Eubank Jr, 35, in “non -narrow waters”It is the natural average weight that feels agony.
“The weight is painful, I'm suffering at the moment,” admitted Eubank Jr, faced with the prospect of having to weigh the Fight Day for the first time in his 14 -year -old professional career. “I'm going even worse tonight and tomorrow morning.” Benn who had just scored Eubank Jr “Fat Boy” and recommended him to focus on the abolition of weight, prohibited: “And the worst pain you have ever been on Saturday evening.”
Eubank Jr was not imperturbable by this jibe of his fierce rival because pain is something to which he has become much too used to. He continued: “The question I ask myself is:” What is pain? “”
“I have a 31 year old brother, he is buried in the desert in Dubai. It's pain. I have his son, Raheem, three years old, he asks: “Why can't I see my dad, why can't he take me to school? It's pain.
“These things are what the pain is for me. If I can face all these trials and tribulations, then the weight clause and the rehydration clause … These are all things that are not a problem.”
It was far too real for Benn to retaliate with a kind of thorny joke. He was sitting there in silence for a few seconds, while his legendary father Nigel – who set his own resentment in the ring with Chris Sr more than three decades ago – Head his head in a moment of respect and empathy. It was a rare overview of the humility of the Eubank Jr, which has always demonstrated, which has shown that its emotional resilience goes far beyond the world of boxing.
For the rest of the press conference, however, Eubank Jr continued to stage his attacks at the Mental War Theater. After having made his usual Spiel and refused to leave the promoter of Benn, Eddie Hearn, to make a word, the conversation is moved to the pressure that Benn will be under his return of suspension.
Of course, this fight is not only built on the quarrel of their fathers. Eubank Jr and Benn wrote their own history, which was to conclude in October 2022, only for the fight to collapse within a short time after the revelation that Benn had rendered two unfavorable drug test conclusions, which led him to be prohibited from boxing in Great Britain until recently.
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EUBANK JR claims that the embarrassment and the fear of being called “drug cheating” led Benn to flee the country, which chose to lead his training camp to Mallorca. In the intention of “getting the child out of boxing”, he said: “Conor speaks of pressure and to face it, but there is a reason for which he had his training camp in Spain. The child had to flee his own country to prepare for this fight.
“He knew that he could not manage the pressure to walk these British streets and make people scream” drug cheat “and jokes on the eggs. So, he hid. Now, he is back and thinks that he can use me to get me back in the right graces. I am not fled, I am in these streets, I was and I talked to children.”
Benn, who has an undefeated sheet of 23-0, had already cited that the release of an “wrapped O2” at the age of 19 threw him in depth with regard to the pressure. “This is what I do,” he reminded Eubank Jr. “There is no pressure. I had the fight more than 100 times in my head.
“I'm not going to bend to Chris and go back and forth. I'm delighted to go back there and get her hands on Saturday. We are not at school now, I don't need to call it names. ”
EUBANK JR then provided the SoundBite of the Night: “You will be at school on Saturday. I'm going to be the director and you will be in detention.”
Benn crossed “two years of hell” to return to the biggest scene, where he hopes to settle the scoring of his deep family quarrel. He is currently 1-0 in favor of the EuBanks, Nigel cannot guarantee a draw when he tried to avenge his sad loss of stop against Chris Sr in 1993. Now, Benn has the chance of redemption the greatest of his father by beating – and potentially retired – the son of his father's father.
The pressure is very important, and it could be felt in the gaze while the pair locked its eyes for what looked like an eternity. Nothing was done to even refer to the endangerment of the main event of this weekend – the two fighters are focused on the laser to go to the war in the ring, where there will be no reinforced security guards to retain them.
“I will not lose against a man named Eubank,” concluded Benn. With a 65,000 -year -old closed window crowds, we will see if it may be up to this wish on Saturday.
