Moving On Up: Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn ready to transcend nineties nostalgia after low-key press conference

Amid the multitude of musical interludes blasted over the PA before Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn's final pre-fight press conference, one commands more attention than most.

Moving On Up , the seminal M People hit, flickers in and out of earshot across the prolonged build-up to the pair's penultimate media event before Saturday's long-awaited bout.

There could be multiple layers to unravel within the song choice, an enduring dopamine hit that originally took the Manchester group to the upper echelons of the charts in 1993.

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For one man, who has needed to pile on the pounds, it is moving on up the divisions. For the other, estranged from familial patronage, it is moving on out of the paternal shadow.

Of course, there is no prophetic intention to be fulfilled here, no divine insight to be derived from the Heather Small-fronted nu-disco banger and its three-decade-old lyrical content.

But simultaneously, this is a moment where two men will aim to move on up in the eyes of the boxing public - and at the same time, move their rival out to the fringes of glory too.

"Unusual calm and tension"

The nineties have hung heavy over this affair for a long time. After all, it was a fight originally made as a nostalgia play, built off the family legacy of Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn.

But here, sequestered in the sheltered sepulchre of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium’s East Quarter, it is in affair poised to finally eclipse the ropes of legacy, even as it still climbs them.

Fireworks have become a formality when these two have crossed paths, with February's egg-slap flashpoint in Manchester arguably the most high-profile clash between the duo.

For once in their lives however, the stage between them held with an unusual calm amid the tension; a deceptively placid obelisk disconnected from the now-familiar cacophony.

Beyond the blinds, late-spring sunshine spilt across the stands, this proved to be an unusually tempered affair, even with the familiar choice insults and new-age mantras at hand.

Dave Thompson / Matchroom Boxing

As the echo of heavy machinery and burly footfalls outside, heralded the continued work of construction crews amid scaffolded columns, here laid a strangely muted oasis.

Anticipation has built steadily over the past two-and-a-half years, ever since the two's original date with destiny was scotched at short noticed, pulled at the final hurdle from play.

Across weeks, months, years of back-and-forth barbs, the twisted bitterness of British boxing's most compelling family psychodrama has provided no shortage of entertainment.

Now days away from the biggest fight of their lives, and despite repeated claims, their nonchalance may not fully mask the nerves, their demeanours curiously taciturn to a point.

Perhaps it was the varied contingencies to prevent further fire before Saturday night, with reams of beefy security lining every nook and cranny as a pre-emptive measure.

Yet next to the tempest that arose and almost sunk their first face-off in Manchester two months ago, this penultimate event proved more akin to a gentle riverboat cruise.

"Too close for comfort"

A hundred yards or so away from the postage-stamp canvas they will call their throne, the pair bandied words with the familiar rhythms that have marked this build-up so far.

Eddie Hearn, talked over once again, called his fellow Matchroom supremo Frank Smith into the fold in an attempt to mitigate the talkback delivery from Eubank Jr on the mic.

The latter toggled between confessional ruminations - name checking the death of his brother Sebastian and his estranged relationship with his father - and incisive taunts.

Across the podium, Benn rose in response on only a few occasions, with his own dad left to carry the big-heart boasts over reported sparring success against William Scull.

(Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing)

But by the time they met for a prolonged face-off, slowly inched apart as the dad-rock drums of Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight  crashed behind them, the wariness felt palpable.

For all the showman-strongman talk that has built towards this date, there is the lingering sense that both men are now too close for comfort to their date with destiny to relax.

They may claim the heat and pressure is off but as Hearn and Ben Shalom continue to paint this as a new chapter, it seems the stars are ready to fast-forward to the brawl.

Moving On Up  has one more wrinkle to this tale too. It sat in the top three of the UK Singles Chart on October 9, 1993 - the night of Chris Eubank Sr vs Nigel Benn II.

Come hell or high water this weekend, in front of a sold-out crowd and millions more around the globe, one will move on up for certain - and the other will move on out too.

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