Pocket Full of Trouble: Eubank Jr.’s Egg Smuggling Stunt at Benn Press Conference

Chris Eubank Jr. posted a picture of his jacket, which he’d smuggled in a pocket full of raw eggs to smash Conor Benn with during their face-off today at the Manchester Central.

The Egging

It’s unclear why he needed a whole pocket full of eggs, but he could have wanted extra ammo in case one of them broke. He was carrying it around today’s press conference to promote their April 26th fight at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium in London, England. Eubank Jr. (34-3, 25 KOs) was pretty devisious with his planning. Benn didn’t have clue one that he was going to get nailed by the egg.

Promoter Eddie Hearn says he wished he’d picked a bigger venue becaue he expected the 62,850-seat Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium to be sold out by Friday.

Eubank Jr-Benn are expected to have two fights, and whoever emerges victorious in the second fight will face Canelo Alvarez for his unified super middleweight titles in 2026. It’s going to a problem for Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) size-wise if he’s the one that wins. Hes a welterweight and has never fought anyone remotely as talented as Canelo.

“The only thing I’m upset about now, and I live Tottenham Stadium, but we really needed a much bigger stadium, because these presale tickets have moved like I’ve never seen before. We know on Friday, it’s an instant sellout anyway, but we could have done with 100,000 easy on this fight,” Eddie Hearn told the media today about the April 26th fight between Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn.

“I don’t believe he didn’t know about it,” said Hearn about Eubank Jr’s promoter Ben Shalom, suspecting him of being aware that Chris Jr. had stashed eggs on him to smash Benn in the face.

“Eddie, we’ve been trying to get out of Chris Jr. what he’s going to say. He wouldn’t tell me. He wouldn’t tell his girlfriend, and he wouldn’t tell his best friend,” said Shalom. “We know why now.”

“I think Conor’s future is back down at 147,” said Hearn. “If he deals with a middleweight in style, who knows? But it’s a big jump to 168 and a big jump size-wise to Canelo Alvarez. Conor is a similar size as Crawford, but doesn’t have his credentials. Quite frankly, doesn’t have his ability yet. I think Crawford will probably get beat [by Canelo].”

Hearn was making a big production about the whole episode today, just going on and on about it, rather than accepting that Benn had been asking for this. He’s the one that ruined plans for them to fight three years ago by testing positive for a PED. If they had fought back then in 2022, the fight would have been much bigger than it is now.

“But if he [Benn] steps up to middleweight and destroys Eubank in three rounds, which is very possible, who knows?” said Hearn.