CHRIS EUBANK JR vowed to inflict very real pain on Conor Benn despite looking like a ghost at his failed weigh-in and being hit with a £350,000 fine.
The 35-year-old Brighton man needed two attempts at making the middleweight limit of 11st 6lbs but he blew it.
After a long night and morning sweating in sauna suits, Eubank Jr weighed 160.2lbs and was facing a £750,000 penalty.
After, even after he went away and melted a few more beads of sweat out of his already depleted 5ft 11in frame, he only managed to dry himself down to 160.05lbs and his fine was halved.
The son of British ring legend Chris Sr looked emaciated on the scales and can only replenish by up to 10lbs on Saturday morning or be hit in the pocket again, where his £8million purse is headed.
But despite the gruelling and dangerous weight cut, he vowed to punish Benn for the two failed 2022 doping tests that kyboshed their original clash.
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He said: “If they want to take half-a-million dollars off of me for being .05lbs off the limit, then that’s the sort of people that Conor and Eddie Hearn are.
“But weights have no relevance to what happens in the ring, I am just going to stop this guy.
“The rehydration rule is still in place, so I have to watch what I eat and drink.
“It’s all designed to get me off track – but none of it will work.
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“He’s in for a helluva surprise.
“He thinks he will hop, skip and jump into landing a right hand on me but he has no idea how much pain I have in store for him tomorrow.”
Benn entered The Islington venue with a large entourage to a mixed reception, the 28-year-old got a few cheers but also some loud ‘Eubank’ chants.
One boxing fan, familiar with the contaminated-eggs excuse the WBC gave Benn for one of his failed tests, shouted out “hello mother hen”.
Benn needlessly stripped off the ceremonial photo-shoot weigh-in, with the official one taking place eight hours earlier.
And he showed off a giant diamond necklace, almost the size of his bearded head.
The final stare-down was intense but short as Benn broke away from the gaze to flex his muscles and growl again.
He said: “It’s an expensive price to pay but he is experienced and has made the weight lots of times.
“But now he’s looking for sympathy and he won’t get any here
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“I am not scared or intimidated.
“I am there to get in there and get the stoppage, I am going there to take his head clean off.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
