Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn: boxing updates and undercard information – are living

Our guy in North London, Donald McRae, exams in from ringside:

At round 8.15 the muted hum that had settled over the stadium was once changed via an enormous cheer as the massive displays dotted round this huge area lit up with a stunning sight. Chris Eubank Sr stepped out of a suitably fancy automobile to the pleasure of a all at once animated crowd that might now not slightly imagine the previous fighter had modified his thoughts and determined to wait in fortify of his estranged son. Those cheers then was guttural roar as Eubank Jr perceived to greet his father.

They walked in combination in an impressive sight … and it made the sort of stirring distinction from the phrases Eubank Jr had stated to me remaining week after I interviewed him: “He’s obviously spoken out about how he is against this fight and wants to stop it. So it looks like I’ll be on my own on the night.”

He additionally spoke movingly at a press convention this week when he stated the ache of his weight-cut was once not anything in comparison to the seeming breakdown of his courting along with his dad: “My own father, a man I idolized for my entire life, doesn’t speak to me. We haven’t spoken for years and he thinks I’m a disgrace. These things are what pain is to me.”

Of route Eubank had already instructed me that he and his dad had talked in early March … however the dialog have been “up and down”. But all of the anguish of lacking weight the day gone by, and dealing with some other rehydration weigh-in this morning, was once forgotten because the Eubanks had been reunited. No one appeared to care if it was once a canny ploy – it seemed and felt like a real reconciliation.

Five mins later, the behind the scenes cameras lower to the sight of Benn in his lingerie. The sustained booing that erupted instructed its personal tale.