Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishChris Eubank Jr. faces Conor Benn on April 26 in London, England. (Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing/Getty Images) (Mark Robinson via Getty Images)It was a two-and-a-half-year premeditated crime of passion when Chris Eubank Jr. reached into his pocket for an egg and viciously slapped it across Conor Benn’s face at their launch press conference in February.Advertisement”The day I found out that they were saying that these drug tests, these failed drug tests, were because of contaminated eggs, the day I heard that story, that fabrication, that fantasy, that they really kind of stuck with, I said there and then, ‘I’m going to hit this guy with an egg across the face as soon as I get a chance.’ And that was [two and a half] years ago,” Eubank Jr. revealed to Uncrowned’s “The Ariel Helwani Show.”In February 2023, the WBC ruled that a “highly elevated consumption of eggs” was a reasonable explanation for the presence of clomiphene in Benn’s body in a 2022 drug test and controversially reinstated him into their rankings. Some felt the sanctioning body was attempting to clear Benn of the offense when it was not in its remit to do so. Benn also disagreed with the WBC’s claim that eating too many eggs was behind the failed tests, as it was not in his 270-page defense submitted to the WBC.The Benn saga finally concluded in November 2024 with the UK’s National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) ruling that they were “not comfortably satisfied” that UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) had proven that Benn had committed an anti-doping rule violation for the use of clomifene.”I bought the cheapest, oldest, crustiest eggs I could find from the worst store I could find,” Eubank said. “That’s what this kid deserves — the worst of the worst.”Advertisement”What I was doing, it was planned, it was anticipated. It was an egg of justice, you know? It was a symbol. It wasn’t about attacking him or hurting him or slapping him; it was about making an example. I had to shine a light on the fact that he was a cheat.””Too many times, these guys, so many guys in the industry, they get popped for drugs, they pay a fine, they serve a little ban, and then they’re back in the ring. And six months later, a year later, it’s nothing and people forget. I couldn’t bear for that to happen. In this instance, I had to do something which was going to remind people for the rest of this kid’s life — you are a cheat, and there’s no hiding it. There’s no forgetting it. This will stay with you for the rest of your life.”Boxing has a long-standing drug problem. Fighters fail tests for performance-enhancing substances and are back in the ring the following year, allowed to resume their careers. Ryan Garcia’s adverse finding for the banned substance ostarine was revealed in May 2024, and by January 2025, Garcia had already announced his next fight against Rolando “Rolly” Romero. If you didn’t already know, you wouldn’t realize that he was serving — and is still serving — a one-year ban.Jarrell Miller failed drug tests on three separate occasions across two sports — and for multiple substances in a notorious 2019 scandal that ruled him out of a unified heavyweight title shot against Anthony Joshua — yet Miller was announced this past week to face Fabio Wardley for the WBA interim heavyweight title in June. Miller served a two-year backdated suspension for his third fail, which occurred in 2020.Eubank was fined £100,000 for his egg infraction by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) but was lauded by some within boxing for what they saw as retributive justice. The British public has had a love-hate relationship with the Eubank family over the years, but undeniably, Eubank’s stock in British boxing fans’ eyes has risen through the Benn saga.Advertisement”I’ve been the bad guy for many, many years,” Eubank acknowledged. “I said it in that first [Benn] press conference: I’ve been booed into every single UK fight against the UK fighter for the last 11 years. So being a good guy, having the support that a lot of fighters have or want, that dream kind of faded away for me a long time ago. I expect to be booed into Tottenham Hotspur [stadium for the Benn fight] because I’ve been booed into every arena [I’ve fought in].”Leading up to this fight [with Benn], I don’t see why it would change. I thought maybe after my fight against Liam Smith, getting booed into that arena twice, going back in there after the first fight, avenging that defeat when everybody said I was finished, everybody said I was washed up, [and I] won the fight, was respectful, shook everybody’s hands, didn’t didn’t do any of the trash talk, I thought, ‘OK, well, surely now I’m going to get some support, be the good guy [or] whatever you want to call it.”Then I go to Daniel Dubois vs. [Anthony Joshua] at Wembley Stadium, 80,000 people. I walk into that stadium, I come up on the screen, my face comes up on the screen as I’m walking in, and the entire stadium boos me. Even after after a career-best performance.”The interesting thing about this fight is that there will be two bad guys walking into that stadium on April 26,” he continued. “It could be the first mega-fight where both fighters are getting booed into the arena.”AdvertisementAlthough Benn has never been booed into an arena, the star boxer would argue that he’s had to deal with his fair share of abuse on social media since his failed test scandal in 2022. However, Benn, unlike Eubank, has never been involved in a major arena fight as a headliner. The big event experience is a completely new one for the unbeaten welterweight.How Benn deals with that pressure and his personal rivalry with Eubank could be a deciding factor on fight night. Eubank is the biggest rival Benn will ever face — in every meaning of the word.Chris Eubank Jr. strikes Conor Eubank with an egg during their press conference at Manchester Central. (Richard Sellers/PA Images via Getty Images) (Richard Sellers – PA Images via Getty Images)”It’s fun, I enjoy it,” Eubank said of the animosity he receives from boxing fans. “I love the haters. I love the doubters. I love getting booed into arenas and drinks flying and seeing that anger in people’s eyes. I kind of feed off of that energy now, as sick as that sounds. So it’s OK [for me], but Conor does not. That’s the big difference. Conor is a completely different animal to me. Conor, he used to be the golden boy. Everyone was behind him. Everyone supported him. Everyone wanted to see him become the next big thing. And now he has an army of haters, just like me.Advertisement”The first time I got booed into an arena was against Billy Joe Saunders 11 years ago, and it was a dark, harrowing experience,” Eubank added. “And it’s happened [in] every single fight ever since. It takes a lot of getting used to. Conor Benn is not there yet, he’s never had that. So it’s going to be very interesting to see how it affects who he is in that ring on the night.”Before Benn’s infamous scandal, he was considered a natural successor to Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury as the next face of British boxing. “The Destroyer” was spectacularly knocking out faded contenders like Chris Algieri and Chris Van Heerden and displaying marked improvements every time. But between the clomiphene controversy and Benn’s recent lack of knockouts — both of his fights since the failed test have gone the distance — the jury is still out on whether he has what it takes to live up to expectations.As the son of British boxing legend Nigel Benn, Conor had a stronger start than most could ever imagine. And that surname is the reason why Benn will get the chance to participate in one of the biggest fights in British boxing history.Eubank Sr. and Nigel Benn had two historic bouts in the 1990s that captivated the attention of the British public. In 1990, Eubank Sr. stopped Benn to win the WBO middleweight title in a fight still widely considered to be one of the best in British boxing history. Three years later, 16.5 million people in Britain watched the pair fight to a draw at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United.Chris Eubank Sr. (left) and Nigel Benn fought a legendary series for the WBO middleweight title in the 1990s. (Ross Kinnaird/EMPICS via Getty Images) (Ross Kinnaird – EMPICS via Getty Images)The appetite for boxers with the names Eubank and Benn to get in the ring and follow in their famous fathers’ footsteps with a rivalry to match is immense. Although Benn’s father will be in his corner on the night, Eubank Jr. told Uncrowned that he was informed by his father that Eubank Sr. will not be present at the fight because Eubank Sr. believes the second-generation clash will not happen.AdvertisementEubank Sr. has insisted that a fight between Eubank Jr. and Benn would be “breaking the rules of boxing.” When Eubank Jr. vs. Benn was originally made for October 2022, Eubank Sr. was a firm believer that the fight wouldn’t happen — and it didn’t. Now that the fight has been made again, Eubank Sr. once again doubts that the boxers will get to make their ring walks in front of more than 60,000 fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on April 26.Eubank Jr. hadn’t spoken to his father in several years until the pair were reunited in March at Harlem Eubank’s fight with Tyrone McKenna in Brighton.”It was good and bad. There [were] some good parts, and there [were] some not-so-good parts,” Eubank said of the run-in. “We haven’t spoken since, so it didn’t go that well. But I’m still hopeful that we can, at some point, figure out a way to get him to this fight. I still hope we can do that. We’ll find out in the coming weeks.”Eubank Jr. used to be trained by his father, but the pair split in 2019. Since then, Eubank Sr. has had limited input into his son’s career.Advertisement”That was the reason why I separated myself from him in the boxing world, because I had to go through it,” Eubank said. “I had to experience what it was to be my own man, walk my own path [and] not be in a shadow anymore. I couldn’t imagine retiring and [not really having] any real experiences of [my] own, outside of the bell going and you’re alone. But outside of that, not making your own decisions, not being a part of your own journey and your own career, business-wise, controlling the people around you.”I couldn’t have somebody living my life for me, which is what [Eubank Sr.] was doing for so many years, especially at the beginning of my career. So it’s good that he’s seen that, the reasons why I stepped away. And he’s seen that I have matured because of that. I think I was already very mature before, but he just couldn’t see it because he was just so controlling.”Eubank Sr. has repeatedly stated his desire to see Eubank Jr. challenge for world titles instead of a big money-spinning showdown with Benn, singling out boxing’s biggest star, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, as a challenge the British icon would like to see his son undertake.”I do think that [Alvarez] is a logical next fight,” Eubank agreed with his father. “And [with the Benn] fight, Turki is saying can put me in a position to get in the ring with ‘Canelo,’ which would be amazing, so I agree with him on that. But that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t fight Conor. He thinks that ‘Canelo’ is the only guy I should fight, and that’s not how boxing works. This is a fight that the fans are demanding. They have been demanding it for years. This fight is bigger than boxing, [it’s] mainstream in the UK.”In the UK, it’s probably bigger than the ‘Canelo’ fight because the general public don’t know who ‘Canelo’ is. The boxing fans do, but the general public [doesn’t] because the general public aren’t boxing fans. They don’t know anything about boxing. This is a fight where you got kids, you got grandmas, you got people that don’t know or care about boxing at all, and they are they’re going to be at that fight. This is a very special thing we have here. So yeah, people ask me about what I’m going to do next, I have no interest in even thinking about it because this fight is so huge for me.”
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