CHRIS EUBANK SR is dreading the long-term damage his son suffered from his first Conor Benn battle hitting home before he turns 40.
– live on DAZN PPV – six months after the original epic clash that left both men in hospital.
Chris Eubank Sr is dreading the long-term damage his son suffered from his first Conor Benn battleCredit: The Sun
Eubank beat Benn in 12 epic roundsCredit: Getty
Eubank Jr spent two nights in hospital due to severe dehydration
At 36, Junior is once again boiling his 5ft 11in frame down to 11st 6lb for the mega-money clash and facing financial penalties if he weighs in over that limit on Friday.
And he will be restricted to what he can rehydrate to on Saturday morning, to help recover the crucial fluid that protects the brain.
Eubank Sr, 59, knows first hand how brutal the sport is – after tragically inflicting – and fears for his boy’s future ahead of the rematch.
Watching the middleweight clash back on SunSport’s No Glove Lost YouTube show which airs tomorrow, British ring legend Sr said: “I look back and calculate. The damage Jr suffered will show up in three to four years.
“My question is, what’s the cost? What is the cost to the individuals doing it? That’s what we are dealing with, this is no game.
“Jr coming down to 160lb, at 36, is madness. But we have said this, to lose weight, that’s where the damage happens. When you get dehydrated.
“For three years I was saying that this fight shouldn’t be happening because the weights are wrong.
“I’m not going to go bleating on the same subject – you will see, there will be consequences. Dehydration is dangerous.”
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and go punch-for-punch once again as both rivals look to make their fathers proud.
The blockbuster rematch takes place at the 62,000-seater Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, November 15.
Eubank Jr narrowly outpointed his bitter foe after 12 brutal rounds in April to secure the bragging rights in what was certainly a
And the two British superstars will dance once more as Eubank Jr aims to do the double while after suffering a first career loss.
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NGL panel stars and former super-middleweight world champions and pushed back at Sr’s emotional stance.
But the veteran of 52 professional fights – – stood firm after watching his son’s dash to hospital.
“You were not in the ambulance with my son,” he clapped back at our expert panel. “He was touch-and-go in the ambulance.
“He was touch and go and, I’m saying to you, the public don’t see that. I’m always behind my son.
“What I’m not behind is the stupidity and the incompetence of these promoters, who are flouting the rules in terms of weights – and this is how fighters end up disabled.”
In 2016, Groves also inflicted devastating and permanent injuries on a sporting rival, .
It almost destroyed the Hammersmith man and he constantly carries the burden of the tragedy.
But he pushed back at Senior’s criticisms of the bout, because Junior – who he beat in 2018 up at super-middle – is an experienced and wealthy veteran who knows exactly what he is signing up for.
George Groves beat Eduard Gutknecht in 2016Credit: –
Gutknecht was left with permanent injuries after the boutCredit: –
Speaking directly to Eubank Sr, he said: “I’ve made weight and, like you, I’ve hurt someone, permanently, badly, and it affected me.
“It put an end, a timeline, on the end of my career. I had an exit strategy after that fight – before I’d even won the world title.
“Chris, I know the dangers of boxing, just as well as you do. But, at this point, he’s a grown man, he wants to do this weight, if it was a problem he would move up.”
Froch, 48, supported his two-fight rival, saying: “The cost is, obviously, we can get injured. We don’t call it a game, it’s a fight.
“And you can go in there and you can get injured and you can get an injury that you might not walk away from. But that’s what we sign up for.”
Senior stole the show when he rolled into the Saudi-funded Tottenham classic last Spring.
And, when the three scorecards were read out – and gave him the unanimous decision – Junior dropped to his knees and sobbed in relief.
Eubank Sr and his son on the night of the fightCredit: Getty
He broke down to his knees after winningCredit: Reuters
Sr stood proudly by his side and then held his hand when he was whisked away in an ambulance and needed two nights to recover.
So he is not interested in Froch and Groves celebrating the idea of prize fighters risking their lives for our entertainment.
“This is not a game,” he said from heart-breaking personal experience. “Suffering is glory.
“That’s why we are looked up to by all members of the community we are loved in.
“I’ve gone over it before now, there are people watching, there are children watching, there are communities watching.
“What are we teaching? What about the standard bearing that we – as fathers – as kings within the community, what is our responsibility?
“Isn’t it to show them and to direct them? We have to keep to our word, we are custodians of this great game if you will, we’re custodians.
“Normal people can’t do this. They say we’re crazy. They say I’m crazy – or boxers are crazy. They’re right – normal people can’t do what we do.”
SunSport’s No Glove Lost panel of Carl Froch, George Groves, Chris Sr and Harlem EubankCredit: sunsport 
