Chris Eubank Jr opened up to the way in which his relationship with his father, Chris Eubank Sr, has changed since the fight last month Conor Benn.
April 26, 32 years after the fight against Eubank SR Nigel Benn For the second and last time, JR exceeded Benn Conor's son at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. The sparkling fight followed a chaotic accumulation, during which Nigel stood next to his son while Eubank Sr called his own “shame” son.
As such, it was a major surprise to see Eubank SR Arrive at the stadium with jr on the evening of the fightBefore the pair went to the ring together.
Eubank SR recently explained how he and JR, who had been separated for some time, Reconnected the day before the fightAnd JR has now deepened their last chapter.
“Since that night before the fight, every day since then, it is all the love between me and my old man, which is incredible to think,” said Eubank Jr Diary of a CEO. “I was in the hospital for two days after the fight; He did not leave the hospital.
“When I say that he did not leave the hospital, I mean he sleeps on one of these civilians outside my room, just in the corridor. It means everything for me. Whatever the differences, and the things that have been said and done, a man who will remain by his son like that … It is love.
“It's been so long since I had this kind of feeling with him, and you only get one father. So, now we are going to build and build and build, and I think our relationship will only become stronger and stronger. ”
In the months preceding the fight, in which Eubank Jr gave Benn his first professional loss, JR publicly challenged his father creating a distance between them, saying that it was not a way for the older Eubank to behave after the death of the son of Sr Sebastian and Brother Simon Eubank in recent years.
“No matter what he said about me and the fight, he was there when it mattered the most, and that means everything,” said Eubank Jr this week. “As soon as he won the phone, there was a tone in his voice that I hadn't heard for years.
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“It was a tone of happiness, lightness, joy.” Hey, how are you, son? What's going on? How do you feel? I know you have a big day tomorrow, and … I want to be there for you. I heard that, and I said to myself: “Is it a dream?
“I planned to walk alone towards the ring, to be hué, and to get into this ring and to fight with anger in my heart. This is what I thought this fight was going to be.
After defeating Benn 116-112 on the three dashboards, Eubank Jr was taken to the hospital for surgery over his eye.
“There were times in this hospital where I feel … I caught up in the mirror, I see that my face is swollen, I have this massive cut on my eye, my headache is crazy,” said the 35 -year -old man. “I feel sorry for myself.” It's a F **** d up. I have my family around me, some of them cry, (I think 🙂 “It's so bad.”
“I am lying there, I am my oxygen mask, I can hear everything that is happening. We are in a neighborhood, someone rides in a room next to me. There are no walls, these are just separating sheets. ” Take me morphine, give me morphine. They can't get morphine until they sign things, so I'm waiting there.
“Then, I hear the doctors say:” We must operate it now, otherwise he will die; I heard that from the other room, and I said to myself: “Oh, my God. I knew I was suffering, but there is a guy next to me who is about to die.
It is planned that Eubank Jr and Benn, 28, Go later this year laterMaybe return to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a revenge match in September.
Eubank Jr was also linked to a fight with the King of average Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, although the Mexican icon will face Terence Crawford in September. Likewise, Benn was linked to the Welters Mario Barrios weight champion, but the latter should fight a Manny Pacquiao back in July.
In Benn's fight with Eubank Jr, the first exceeded two weights beyond his usual Welter weight division, meeting JR in Middleweight. However, the latter was limited by a rehydration clause.
