Boxing fans are divided over Saturday’s boxing showpiece. Some see Conor Benn v Chris Eubank Jnr as a welcome reboot of a once-great franchise. Others consider it a tawdry cash-in. But no one has been more consistently critical than Eubank’s own father.
Only last week, Chris Eubank Snr told website Seconds Out that he would be snubbing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the 62,000 fans therein. “I will not be an accomplice to their stupidity, their circus,” he declaimed, with a passion that was not at all undermined by that oft-parodied lisping voice.