Chris Eubank Jr was affected with a fine of £ 500,000 after lacked weight for the fight on Saturday Conor Benn.
Friday morning, Benn tilted the balance at 156.4 lbComfortably under the limit of 160 lb, while Eubank JR was not found at the following time.
And when he finally went to the scale, he arrived at 160.2 lb, before a second effort of 160.05 lb. While it was a tiny miss, Eubank Jr will have to pay £ 500,000 by his contract.
If the 35 -year -old man exceeds the final limit on Saturday morning of 170 lb, he will be struck by a “new penalty”, according to the event organizers The ring.
In the preparation of the main event on Saturday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Eubank Jr had teased that he could intentionally lack weight and accept a fine – to put his body through less stress and to give himself an advantage over the fighting fight. However, the miss was so minor that it certainly cannot have been intentional.
With the fight from Saturday in London to the average weight, Benn ventures two divisions above his usual combat weight of 147 LB. He reacted to the weight of Eubank JR in a video on social networks, laughing and saying: “Show me the mother's money ******.”
When Eubank Jr and Benn are fighting this weekend, the fight will take place two and a half years after their first confrontation, and more than 30 years after the last time their fathers fought.
In 1990, Eubank SR stopped Nigel BennBefore the British rivals were fighting for a draw in 1993. At the end of 2022, Eubank Jr vs Benn was reserved as a unique extension of their father's rivalry, but the competition collapsed in a short notice on the revelation that the revelation that Benn had rendered two unfavorable medication test results.
He was then suspended from boxing in Great Britain until the end of 2024, although he had a competitor twice in the United States in the meantime. In 2023, WBC suggested that Benn's unwanted results could have been caused by excessive egg consumption. In reference to this suggestion, Eubank Jr slapped Benn in the face with an egg in February – and received a fine of £ 100,000 to do this.
