Chris Eubank Sr reveals seriousness of son Eubank Jr's condition after Conor Benn battle

Chris Eubank Sr has dramatically revealed his son was “touch and go” after his fight against Conor Benn left his life “in the balance”.

Eubank Jr narrowly beat Benn last Saturday, live on DAZN as one of Britain's most rancorous and long-running boxing rivalries lived up to the hype at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The 35-year-old was then rushed to hospital after his unanimous decision victory before eventually being released on Monday.

 

Benn sent his best wishes to his rival after learning of the hospitalisation and Eubank Sr said on his Call Chris Eubank YouTube show: “We were in the ambulance, the sirens, the horns are beeping; the chaos.

“My son Junior is very proud. His head looks like a blown-up football almost twice the size and he'll never let you see that because he's proud.

“People don't know but my son is touch and go and the only way we're going to know whether he's going to be okay is after the CT scans.

“He suffered mostly in the hospital because of dehydration even though the beating was severe and that's why he was in such discomfort for 24, 30 hours.

“I don't want my son to have to go through that again. He doesn't know that his life was in the balance neither does he care."

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Benn, who visited his opponent in hospital, had earlier praised Eubank Sr following the bout.

“I looked at Chris Sr, I grabbed him by the neck and I said, ‘Mate, I’m so happy that you’re here’,” he said.

“Because aside from everything else, all the noise, the promotion and the fight, your relationship with your dad never goes, that’s always there, it’s long-standing. If this has brought those two together, then it’s worth its weight in gold.”

Eubank Sr also revealed he went in disguise to get into the fight, which all three judges scored 116-112 in favour of his son.

“Junior called and he said, ‘I didn't want to call dad because I can't hear anything negative’,” he said.

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"I said to Junior, ‘okay alright, so where are you?’

“Okay so he explained. How am I going to get in now in my mind you know you have the world's media there everyone's hanging around so how am I going to get in?

“So I put on the disguise, the disguise when he saw me he said ‘No one's going to recognize you’.

“You couldn't see me I had coat on which is down to literally your ankles, I had a hoodie.

“The coat they wore in the 1960s on their mopeds and then I had a mask that went up and a cap.

“The shoes I wore – they were black trainers – and Junior even said, 'Wow there's no way anyone's going to recognize you looking like that.” 

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