CHRIS EUBANK JR insists he has no regrets about his costly slap of Conor Benn.
The two-time IBO middleweight champion slapped his bitter rival with an EGG last month during the Manchester leg of their press tour to promote their April 26 grudge match.
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The British Boxing Board of Control didn’t take kindly to the 35-year-old’s antics, hitting him with a whopping £100,000 fine.
But Eubank Jr – the son of Brit icon Chris Eubank Sr – would happily lamp his sworn enemy with another egg, writing on X: “Worth every penny.”
Boxing fans were quick to comment on Eubank Jr’s response to his punishment, with one saying: “It was eggcelent.”
Another said: “That’s got to be the most expensive omelette in history.”
And another said: “Well, that was an eggspensive.”
One remarked: “I know the price of eggs has gone up, but bloody hell, that’s an expensive egg!”
Another chimed in: “A lot of money for Chris to shell out.
Eubank Jr’s decision to slap Benn – the son of his old man’s bitter rival Nigel Benn – with an egg was a calculated one.
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Conor blamed his failed drug tests ahead of the duo’s cancelled domestic dust-up in October 2022 on his consumption of eggs.
Positive tests for the banned substance clomiphene – which was discovered in Benn’s samples – can occur if one consumes an extremely large quantity of eggs.
Benn was provisionally suspended by both UK Anti-Doping and the National Anti-Doping Panel, although the latter cleared him of intentional ingestion last November.
UKAD had the right to appeal the NAD’s lifting of Benn’s suspension but opted not to, paving the way for Benn to fight in the UK again.
And the 28-year-old is set to reapply for a license with the British Boxing Board of Control, which he ripped up during a row with the sanctioning body.
Eubank Jr has been speaking exclusively to Piers Morgan and revealed how the fight with Benn has been overshadowed by the collapse of his relationship with his dad Chris.
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