Boxers Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn went head to head in the Piers Morgan Uncensored studio in the lead up to their April fight. But, despite the interview becoming so heated they had to be pulled apart by security, Benn revealed he would like to see Eubank Jr’s estranged dad in his rival’s corner.
Watch the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored’s YouTube channel on Friday 14 March from 7pm.
Asked what message Eubank Jr had for his boxing legend father, who is estranged from his son, he said: “I’m here. I’m getting ready for the biggest fight of my life. If you want to be next to me like his father’s next to him, we can do it together. If not, no hard feelings, I’ll get the job done for you, don’t worry about it… He’s my old man. It doesn’t matter if I don’t talk to him until the day I die. I’m always gonna love him. He taught me everything… As far as I know, he doesn’t want this fight to go ahead.”
Telling Piers he had been estranged from his father for a “couple of years”, he went on to explain about how the rift started. He told the special edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored: “It got to a stage where I needed to step out of the shadow completely. It’s a big shadow… I realised I have to separate myself from this huge character that’s always next to me. He’s different, his father kind of let him do his own thing and kind of, you know, jump in and sink or swim. My old man was always, always next to me. I got to a stage where I decided that I needed to walk my own path. He was not happy with that decision. That’s the start of it. Then you have a situation with my brother passing away, that affected him in a deep way, affected all of us… Mental health is a real thing. That incident, coupled with the fact that we were already not seeing eye to eye, destroyed a large part of the relationship, and it still hasn’t seemed to have recovered, unfortunately.”
Despite dubbing him an “idiot” during their fractious studio clash, Benn, who has a close relationship with his own father, fighter Nigel Benn, conceded he would like to see Eubank Sr at the fight.
He said: “My dad loves me regardless. My dad’s proud of me regardless, the relationship I have with my dad is beyond boxing. It’s funny because my dad doesn’t really, my dad doesn’t really care about what I do in my career. My dad cares more about me as a man and about my happiness… My dad is my hero.”
Benn added: “It’s a matter of fact your dad doesn’t like you, otherwise he would be here…But what I’m trying to say to you is, it would be nice to see your dad there in your corner. I’m fine, because at the present moment, he thinks I’ll knock you out. Again, a matter of fact. I’m not saying that being funny, that’s what your dad believes, it’s out there.
“But I genuinely, again, you may think I’m being sarcastic. We are where we are because of our dads. They’ve laid the foundation. We are like our dads. We are the double and carbon copy of our dads. It’d be great to see your dad in your corner, and you mend that relationship, and whatever has come in between you guys, it’d be great to see and I mean that that’s coming from my heart, not being sarcastic. I mean what I say.
Eubank Jr said: “It’s hard to believe…I’ve got to be careful, I don’t want you drawing me into something here.”
For the full interview watch Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube
Last Updated on 03/12/2025
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