Roll, roll for the biggest spectacle on earth. The former Fairground barkers had nothing on modern merchants who have repercussions on a frenzy for the confrontation on Saturday in Tottenham Hotspur.
Forget Waterloo, regardless of Agincourt, ignore Bannockburn. Eubank Jr against Benn the youngest, so tells us, is the real British battle for ages. It is only one of the many slogans sporting an event that could have been generated by artificial intelligence.
They include the family quarrel, born from Brawl, the story in the overhaul and – how much it falls at Easter – in the name of the fathers.
A more appropriate title could be a fight for nothing because there is no major championships at stake for two men who, unlike their legendary dads, have never organized an appropriate world title.
Or to be more precise, a fight for nothing other than money. This is how he is characterized by Chris Eubank Sr, who urged his son to withdraw at this late hour, even if he wants to pocket the end of 6 million pounds sterling and who threatens to boycott the event.
EUBANK SR is in no way alone by believing that it is such an ill -designed fight that it puts the two fighters at abnormal risks. His boy, Chris Jr, being contractually denied more than 10 pounds of rehydration after having narrowly failed up to 160 lb. The boy of Nigel Benn, Conor, swelling two divisions above his natural Welter weight to face a much larger man.
Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn will finally meet in the ring after years of ferocious words
Chris Eubank Jr was sentenced to a fine after failing to respect the weight limit for the fight Friday morning
Conor Benn is supported by his father Nigel, who first faced EUBANK SR for the average WBO weight title in 1990
Throughout this fiasco, the Eubank JNR claimed the moral terrain as the just and supposed protector of the integrity of the game … while taking the money.
If Benn was labeled the cheating, Eubank is the hypocrite. Even before he came in a half-noce on the weight limit to which he had contracted. By preferring to make the victory more likely by paying the fine of £ 375,000 rather than his signature – wrote in the name of the family reputation which he proclaims as protecting – he dragged this fiasco out of the farce field.
Can he be surprised that his own father calls him a shame to get involved in this poorly designed company?
Fight of the Century, when the boost broadcast? No, a farce without honor.
It is not the match made in paradise that the AD-Men would make us believe. It is by accident that the offspring of two legendary boxers, who clashed in epic fights at the golden age for British boxing, followed roughly in the shoes of their fathers.
Normally, given the size disparity, the pair would not overwhelm each other. This match was artificial to discuss their family names, manicuring an inheritance, with an exaggeration of their respective talents and some juggling the scales.
The promoters – Eddie Hearn with Benn and Ben Shalom for Eubank Jnr – produced a masterpiece of marketing.
We often speak of leaving marinated fighting in the anticipation of the public. Each last ounce of juice has been sucked up in the two and a half years since the first attempt was stuck at the last minute by revelations that Benn had failed two drug tests.
Chris Eubank SR prevailed on Nigel Benn via TKO at Birmingham NEC in November 1990
Eubank SR is no longer in the corner of his son and labeled him a shame for agreeing to participate in the confrontation
By reaching his star so firmly to the innocence protests of Benn, Hearn surely trapped in an expensive spiral of litigation. It would have been cheaper and simpler, if Benn had just made a plea and served his two -year ban.
The handbags he picked up for having fought some American sluggers in dark places while the legal arguments argued a little more than loose changes. Worse, he did a terribly difficult job to overcome them. Hearn kept the faith, crushing the organ with each suspicion of the different hearings of the court.
Shalom came on board, which made his commitment to find a big evening for Eubank by sending him back to Benn despite the reserved for the convoluted process which had found a way to bypass the alleged transgressions of improvement in Benn’s performance.
He was authorized by the national anti -doping panel and Eubank made his opinion on this clear by crunching an egg on Benn’s cheekbone at a press conference. This tacit statement of the initial excuse of his rival according to which he had failed drug tests because he had eaten too many eggs – then dropped in the midst of very amused layoffs – cost Eubank a fine of £ 100,000. And he kept the advertising mill that was transformed.
Just like the several face -to -face television confrontations where the gloves were lit with a greater frequency than the clothes on Love Island.
“It’s hatred”, Thunders Hearn. “Real hatred. Honest.’ Shalom believes it: “Chris really doesn’t like Conor.”
Snake oil sellers in the West West used to sneak their goods at the back of a wagon. Shalom and Hearn have the benefit of a much more powerful, Internet platform, on which to spread their message to the world. This high-tech carpet bombing attracts interest far beyond the boxing audiences.
Stade stadium fights in England have become the perfect excuse for guys to occur on GUNG-HO on Saturday evening, strengthening a closed window in northern London between front visits and Boozer posts. A curiosity of these opportunities is that once inside the ground, the companions tend to keep only half a eye on the action while joking and laughing at each other.
EUBANK JR received a fine of £ 100,000 for slapping Benn with an egg at the press conference to announce his fight in February
Benn has won two victories against mediocre opposition since his return from his ban for failed drug tests
The promoters – Eddie Hearn (right) with Benn and Ben Shalom (left) for Eubank JNR – produced a masterpiece of marketing
Regardless of the quality. I love craic. It does not matter that when Hearn Trost, Benn, 28, and Eubank, 35, like “two world class boxers to their peak”, he brings the media hysterical threshing closer.
Benn seems to join the narcissism of the gymnasium when he declares himself “shocked” to be informed that he is the oppressed in bets. There is nothing in his CV to suggest that he walks with the gods of the ring. His unbeaten record was built on novices, companions and veterans.
The three defeats of Eubank were inflicted by British Pedigree of the world championship. Nrès by Billy Joe Saunders, in a complete way by George Groves and on a advisable manner by Liam Smith. The latter that he avenged in a similarly direct manner. He also has a victory over James Degale.
None of which he explains the possibility of an entertainment competition. Not only did superstars made a good show. Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti also met at their level and produced one of the most exciting trilogies of all time.
The contrast in the styles between the Laconic Eubank and the fiery Benn could strike a match which is worth watching, even if they are unlikely to reach the summits of their fathers on two classics which, for the moment, have the rival dynasties on a victory with direct elimination by EUBANK and a draw.
So how will this score be after this evening? Benn can train like a maniac, which he has, and fight like a swirling dervish, that he will do, but is it enough to overcome the Eubank experience store, his superior skills and his advantages in height, in range and natural weight?
This, one of the oldest mantras in the hardest game, does not say: a good Big’un always beats a good little’un. Modify this slightly and you have your prediction: an average larger is smaller.
Whatever happens inside the ring, Hearn and Shalom pray that the guys have a good evening. The sale of 60,000 tickets in a few hours already has a quick catch -up, Eddie and Slick Benny are already talking about a revenge match, before the first punch was thrown angry. Maybe there will even be a trilogy that has never materialized for their fathers.
