Chris Eubank Sr is once again unhappy about his son fighting Conor Benn.
Former world champion Eubank Sr was always uneasy with the idea of his son losing what he believed to be unhealthy amounts of weight in order to take on Benn down at 160lbs.
The pair fell out for some time ahead of the first fight but finally made up and walked into the arena together on the night of the fight.
Eubank Jr went on to win a gruelling fight despite the rehydration clause, which restricted him to add just 10lbs on the morning of the fight from the weigh-in at 160 the night before.
Both men ended up attending the hospital after the contest in order to recover – with Eubank’s stay much more substantial than Benn’s – and now they are doing it all again in September.
Speaking on his own YouTube channel, Eubank Sr express his dismay at the weight restrictions, which will reportedly be the same second time around.
“I have heard them talk about ‘Oh Conor has had to go up in weight, so really he is the one in danger because he is fighting someone who is 160 (lbs).’ The person who is 160 is really coming down from 175. He was not just weight drained, they put a rehydration clause in. They fined him $500,000 for coming in, I don’t know, two ounces over the weight … Junior wasn’t even sweating at the end of the fight, dehydration. These rules are in place to save my son. To save the lives of fighters.
“Unfortunately, the reporters, the journalists, are not doing their job. They are dangerous and they are reckless. If the Boxing Board of Control do not do what they are supposed to do, which is to block fights from happening which do not abide by the weights and the rules. You are baboons!
“What I am here to do is to protect, and they are uneducated against those, what did my son call them? Scum buckets. If that is the term he gave to promoters, he is not wrong. They are treating us like we are meat. They are butchering us. My son is not going to back down from anything. One, money. Two, the heart.”
Benn has vowed to be less emotional in the second fight, though once again he will be up against it as he continues to fight in his unnatural weight class to take on someone larger and more experienced at a higher level in Eubank Jr.
