Conor Benn left with egg on his face after Chris Eubank Jr slap on stage
The incident sparked a brawl on stage as Eddie Hearn and Benn’s father Nigel tried to get at Eubank and his team.
Chris Eubank Jr slapped rival Conor Benn with an egg as their personal enmity boiled over in a press conference ahead of their highly-anticipated middleweight clash in April.
During a heated exchange in Manchester, Eubank had already made reference to two drugs tests Benn failed in 2022 due to what the World Boxing Council called a “highly-elevated consumption of eggs” – an offence for which he has since been cleared.
And as the fighters faced off on stage, Eubank pulled an egg from his pocket and smashed it against Benn’s face, sparking a brawl as Eddie Hearn and Benn’s father Nigel tried to get at Eubank and his team.
Eubank and Benn will fight at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26, but had originally been due to face off in October 2022 before Benn’s failed tests forced the fight to be called off.
“Conor, I have been meaning to ask you how many eggs you had to eat to fail those drugs tests,” Eubank said during the press conference.
“All you and Eddie (Hearn) say is, ‘We are cleared’, but you don’t say how. I am not an academic, but I know one thing – you are a drug cheat.”
