Chris Eubank Jr. will be £525,000 down before a single punch has even been thrown on Saturday.
Eubank missed weight by .05 pounds at Friday’s official weigh-in for his blockbuster all-British fight with Conor Benn, which is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England.
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While Eubank tipped the scales at 160.05 pounds on his second attempt, Benn — a natural welterweight — weighed 3.6 pounds under the 160-pound middleweight limit at 156.4 pounds.
For the infraction, Eubank will have to pay Benn £375,000 ($500,000) out of his purse because of the weight stipulations in the pair’s fight contracts.
Furthermore, Eubank and Benn have a 10-pound rehydration clause in the agreement, which means that neither boxer can weigh more than 170 pounds when they weigh in on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. BST (3 a.m. ET). Should Eubank weigh heavier than 170 pounds on Saturday morning, he will be subjected to more financial penalties.
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In what has become an expensive buildup, Eubank is also being fined £100,000 by the British Boxing Board of Control for breaking an egg across Benn’s face with a powerful left-hand slap at the face-off for their first press conference in Manchester in February. Eubank has yet to pay the fine and is currently in the process of appealing it.
The IBO middleweight champion, Eubank also agreed to pay the boxers on the original undercard for his fight with Benn a combined £50,000 for his rescheduled fight with Benn. Benn’s failed test, revealed in October 2022, forced the cancellation of the show on fight week, meaning that none of the boxers on that card were paid for their fights, despite them completing a full training camp — which Eubank says was unfair.
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Eubank and Benn will reportedly pocket around £7.5 million each for their second-generation clash on Saturday.
All other boxers on the Eubank vs. Benn undercard made weight at Friday’s official weigh-in.
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