The Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn fight garnered a lot of debate over how it was scored.
Both men gave it their all at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on April 26, but in the end it was Eubank Jr that got his hand raised after a back and forth 12-round battle.
All three judges scored the fight 116-112 to Eubank Jr to hand him the unanimous decision victory, but some boxing figures have weighed in to claim they felt the scorecards should have been closer.
One man that surprised the world by attending the fight was Eubank Jr’s father Chris Sr, who reconciled with his son in the hours leading up to the bout to stand alongside him against Conor and his legendary rival from the 1990s, Nigel Benn.
Eubank Sr has now revealed how he felt the fight should have been scored, telling his Call Chris Eubank YouTube Channel that he feels it was closer than 116-112 and he’d have even had no complaints with a draw.
“It was closer in my view.
I always go with the judges, you don’t complain, you just go with it like a gentleman.
It looked so much closer than the score that the judges gave, if that was a draw I had nothing to complain about. That’s how close it was in my view.
I’ve seen clips but I haven’t watched the fight from start to finish. I’m going to leave that for maybe two, three, four years. Yeah, years. I don’t want to watch it. It’s fights like that that raise the bar where people have to fight with their hearts. Not about skill, not about talent, but about grit and perseverance.”
Attention has now turned to whether a rematch between the two men will take place later this year, with Eubank Jr admitting that demand for it is an all-time high.
