I WOULD have been maybe 14 or 15 when I first heard the name Eubank,” says Conor Benn of the family to which he will be intrinsically linked for the rest of his life, whether he likes it or not.
Spending the first 12 years of his life in Majorca and the next few in Australia kept him thousands of miles away from the base of Chris Eubank and indeed his son, Chris Jnr. He had no idea what his dad Nigel had been through as a result of that man on the Sussex coast.
Nor was he aware that his own surname was one half of British boxing’s most famous rivalry, the one against which all others have been and are still measured. He knew his dad boxed, but he did not know about Eubank.
“I wasn’t brought up here, so it was probably a bit late,” says Benn the Younger from behind dark glasses. “There used to be a video called and it goes through all his early ones and then cuts to Benn and Eubank in their opposite corners
