{"id":256455,"date":"2025-11-11T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256455\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:08:09","slug":"eubank-vs-benn-2-inside-look-at-how-chris-eubank-sr-and-jr-mended-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/256455\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank vs Benn 2: Inside look at how Chris Eubank Sr and Jr mended their relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Eubank Jr has spent his entire life seeking the approval of his father and former world champion Chris Eubank Sr.<\/p>\n

But in the days before the biggest fight of his career against Conor Benn – a revival of the family feud which started with their fathers 35 years ago – Eubank Jr cut an isolated figure.<\/p>\n

At the final news conference before that grudge match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April, Eubank Jr spoke about the “pain”<\/a> of no longer having a relationship with his dad.<\/p>\n

They had, at that point, been estranged for several years with Eubank Sr criticising the match-up.<\/p>\n

Eubank Sr also publicly called his son a “disgrace” after\u202fslapping Benn with an egg<\/a>\u202fduring a face-off.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to stand in your corner? You must be mad,” Eubank Sr said.<\/p>\n

“I will never be in your corner.”<\/p>\n

A reunion between the pair looked impossible as the bout drew closer until Eubank Sr made the first move – reaching out via text message just 24 hours before the fight.<\/p>\n

“I called him and he wanted to see me, I told him ‘I can’t take any negativity’,” Eubank Jr said.<\/p>\n

“He said ‘no, I have nothing negative to say, I want to be next to you’.<\/p>\n

“Regardless of what has been said and done, I’m always going to greet him with open arms.”<\/p>\n

Eubank Sr had seen his son come under verbal attack – with his father’s absence used as a weapon – and felt he needed to act.<\/p>\n

The pair met that night and kept their reconciliation under strict wraps. <\/p>\n

The first anyone knew of it was when Eubank Sr emerged out of a taxi backstage- and elevator for those watching on TV – beside his son. The boxing world at ringside and at home witnessing a now famous sporting moment.<\/p>\n

“You didn’t have any support, that was a very dangerous fight and I’m so glad that I cut off and away from you for so long and that I said there was no way I’m coming to that fight,” Eubank Sr said.<\/p>\n

“I turned up at the last minute to give you the last piece of energy.”<\/p>\n

The presence of his father on fight night clearly had a positive impact as Eubank Jr won by unanimous decision.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eubank Sr will be back by his son’s side for the rematch on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Him in my corner gave me that boost, that extra per cent to get the job done,” Eubank Jr said.<\/p>\n

“When it truly counted, he was there for me.”<\/p>\n

In a new BBC film, both men open up about their split and very public reconciliation, and what their mended relationship looks like now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Eubank Jr has spent his entire life seeking the approval of his father and former world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-256455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}