Watch Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr.’s final press conference before their Saturday meeting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Eubank Jr.’s father called him a disgrace during the buildup to the fight, and he revealed the pain he is in.
Eubank opens up about his father’s troubled relationship.
Watch Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr.’s final press conference before their Saturday meeting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Eubank Jr.’s father called him a disgrace during the buildup to the fight, and he revealed the pain he is in.
Betfred Super League
Warrington (16) 32
Goals: Sneyd and Thewlis 2 Tries: King, Ashton 3, Tai, and Dufty
St. Helens (14) 18
Warrington defeated St. Helens for the third time in five weeks to move up to seventh in the Super League with Matty Ashton’s hat-trick.
After winning the first league game between the two last month, Wire also added this third straight win over Saints to their already-winnable Challenge Cup tie.
Before Ashton crossed twice in the left corner, Toby King and Saints responded with tries from Jon Bennison and Mark Percival, leaving the visitors with 16-14 going at the break.
Warrington won the Super League for the fifth time in five games, while a torn Saints team, which had lost its fourth straight game to 2025, are still in fifth place.
The first half of this season’s two tight matches left little space between the teams.
The hosts opened the scoring with a Saints knock-on, and King slammed off the first tackler to head over in the left corner from the scrum.
After working the play left, Marc Sneyd scored a 40-20 kick to put his side deep into Saints’ half to send Ashton over in the corner.
The visitors took full advantage of the restart with quick hands to send Bennison into the top corner before Warrington gave in to the Saints.
Before the break, Percival scored twice for the Saints to reduce the 12-point lead.
After fending off three tacklers, he first forced the defense to draw it 10 metres out and then stepped off his left boot to the line for a second try.
After the break, Warrington increased their lead as Ashton made a long pass to the left to make room for him to spectacularly tap into the corner to add to his hat-trick.
Then, as Pervical had a try ruled out, Dufty clung on to a pass between his legs before his wide pass set up Tai to slide over for his first try in a year.
Before the visitors scored a consolation try with a work from Bennison into the right corner, Dufty cut back off his right boot to scorch through a tired Saints defense beyond doubt.
Sam Burgess, the head coach of Warrington Wolves, told BBC Radio Merseyside:
The team is truly concerned for one another. A truly energetic performance was given. I’ve been here for 18 months, and I’d probably consider that to be my most gratifying accomplishment.
We had a lot to lose, but I’m proud of how they handled hardship and triumphed.
“The effort was outstanding, but there are still things we can tidy up,” said one player.
Paul Wellens, the head of St. Helens, told BBC Radio Merseyside:
“It’s obviously really disappointing,” he said. Not just the outcome, but also the performance. Because it is far beyond the required standard, some soul-searching must be conducted both individually and collectively.
I’m in charge of this team’s performance and results. I’ve never, in a second, avoided that.
“We’ve been playing a really sloppy game for the second week in a row.” We’ve spent a lot of money on cheap things, and we need to fix that.
Changes: Harrison, Crowther, Musgrove, and Philbin
St. Helens: Sailor, Bennison, Sambou, Percival, Murphy, Welsby, Whitby, Walmsley, Clark, Lees, Sironen, Whitley, Knowles
Mbye, Paasi, Delaney, and Stephens exchange
Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. will face off in a decades-old grudge fight that has been ongoing for more than two years.
After their initial fight in 2022 was postponed due to contentious circumstances, the British fighters will finally meet in the ring.
Everything you need to know about the conflict is listed here:
On April 26th, the fight will take place.
The fight will take place at the United Kingdom’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
At 18:00 GMT, the first fight is anticipated to take place.
From 17:45 GMT, Al Jazeera Sport will provide live text updates and photo coverage of the main and undercard fight.
On DAZN, the fight will be live-streamed pay-per-view.
The total purse, according to organizers, is believed to be $ 23 million, with a 60-40 split in the main fight geared toward Eubank Jr.
Eubank Jr., the son of former middleweight champion boxer Chris Eubank, is a professional boxer from Hove, a southern British seaside town.
The 35-year-old has previously held the World Boxing Organization’s interim middleweight title and the super middleweight title before making his professional debut in 2011.
Eubank Jr., a fighter who adopts an orthodox stance, is the third-ranked middleweight boxer in the world and the top-ranked boxer in the UK.
Benn’s father, Nigel Benn, was a two-weight champion in the 1990s, and he also has boxing in his blood. The 28-year-old, who was raised in Ilford, East London, became a professional in 2016.
Benn hasn’t lost a professional fight, but the boxer has had his fair share of controversy since failing a doping test in 2022.
The anti-doping body in the country imposed a ban on the then-rising boxing champion due to using clomifene, a fertility drug that was deemed prohibited. His suspension date was 20 November, 2024.
The Benn v. Eubank feud, which the rivals’ fathers engaged in in two bloody fights in the early 1990s, is revived with Saturday’s bout of second-generation rivals.
In November 1990, the pair’s first gruesome fight, which Eubank triumphed over by knockout total, took place. Three years later, a highly anticipated rematch was held, and both men were able to keep their belts.
The rivals were supposed to fight until nearly 22 years later when Benn’s doping violation prevented the fight, which was titled “Born Rivals.”
Despite the past, the fighters assert that their fathers did not encourage them to rekindle the conflict. In recent years, both senior fighters have been seen making friendly public appearances.
During a press conference in February, Eubank Jr. slammed an egg into Benn’s face.
Eddie Hearn and Benn’s father, Nigel, tried to get at Eubank and his team as the fighters battled it out on stage, but an egg from his pocket came out and struck Benn’s face.
The British Boxing Board of Control had already made reference to two drug tests Benn failed in 2022, which sparked a two-year legal battle with anti-doping authorities. Eubank Jr. was already fined $ 129, 000.
“Egg contamination is believed to have caused his two drug tests to fail. Therefore, I gave him an egg,” Eubank Jr. posted on X.
At a second media event, he defended his actions and said, “Did I cross the line?” I believe there have been many boundaries throughout this process.
On X, Benn responded, “That’s the only shot you’ll land on me… after two rounds, you’re finished.”
Eubank Sr. called his son’s pre-fight antics a “disgrace” and called him a “disgrace.”
Benn must move up from his welterweight division, which is 147 pounds (66 kg), because the fight will be fought at middleweight (160 pounds (71 kg)).
Eubank Jr will have to drop from his 180lbs (81kg) weight because the boxers can’t weigh more than 170 pounds (77 kg) on fight night.
Eubank Jr., however, has stated that he will fight with the precision of a “matador” and that he will not back down.
It’s about skill and dedication, expertise, and all of those areas of excellence that this fight is about. Conor Benn will be the deciding factor, he said on Tuesday, adding that he has many years of experience.
I can defend my position. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I’ve forgotten more details than he even realizes.
Conor Benn will serve as the bull, and the procedure will be parliamentary, everything will go as planned, and I’ll behave like a matador in the ring.
Benn will use this fight as another chance to carry on his unbeaten run.
It’s always personal, they say. It’s a business, some claim. He claimed in the press conferences leading up to the fight that this is not business and never will be.
It’s not business, and this is personal, if you try to put your hands on me and make me unconscious.
The former champion has distanced himself from the fight in response to his rivalry with Benn Senior.
Eubank believes that the fight will put his son’s life in danger, especially since he will have to lower his weight class.
He claimed in an interview with British tabloid The Sun last week that “my son probably walks around at around 180lb [81.6kg] and he has to boil himself down to 160lb [71.5 kg]”.
People don’t understand what Junior’s age-related weight loss would mean. They are unable to comprehend the drying process.
“I am aware of how that feels.” I am aware of the fighters’ injuries and dehydration.
Katherine Ryan revealed she was once ‘mugged off’ by Stephen Hawking after meeting him at one of Jimmy Carr’s party. The 41-year-old star admitted she tried to flirt with the late theoretical physicist, who died aged 76 in 2018, and ‘tried it on with him’.
She appeared on the recent episode of the Nip Tuck podcast with Ashley Stobart and Lauren Adamson and said comedian Jimmy ‘used to have the most amazing parties’ before his children were born’. Jimmy started dating Karoline Copping in 2001 and share a son together. Speaking about one of Jimmy’s parties, Katherine said: “Like Brandon Flowers would be there. Woody Harrelson would be there, Professor Stephen Hawking, Monica Lewinsky, I met Kourtney Kardashian in Jimmy Carr’s living room. He’s like the London Gatsby. It was really fun.”
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The host then posed the question, “Stephen Hawking, yes, did he try it on with you?” Because she saw the movie about him, Kathy said that she had tried it on with him.
“Yes, but then his assistant came up and said, “Oh, the professor’s tablet has run out of battery,” quite hurtfully. He is unable to communicate with you. And I am aware that I was robbed of.
What a fantastic way to s**k someone off, co-host Lauren said. I’m just saying, “My batteries are gone.”
Katherine described him as “genius” and continued, “But then I googled it and there’s a backup battery for the tablet in the chairs.” The battery is also working if the chair is moving. Before Katherine said, “He did,” Stephen “f**ked her off,” according to Laurence.
Katherine, who turns her back on filler, has already vowed to have a lip lift. The comedian has revealed that she has “got lost in the game” of enhancements and has been open about her cosmetic surgery experience.
Katherine was recently been sharing her skin cancer story with her fans. Katherine had stage two melanoma in the past, meaning she was able to recognise the signs in a mole way back in 2022.
Joanne McNally, a fellow comedian, and she and her husband, Joanne, who both spoke about ageing and cosmetic surgery, joined her on her podcast. Joanne claimed she had “dabbled” in filler but that she was still left looking like a “melted baby.”
Joanne discussed her own experiences with ageing and Botox on the podcast What’s My Age Again?
She continued, “I was on TV before I realized that you can’t have Botox on. There is nothing I can’t do, and I get everything (Botox). Before that, I definitely did a little filler, and then I shot a photo shoot for a podcast I was producing back in the day.
Bad work is similar to bad breath because you don’t notice it until you reflect it and say, “Oh, I look like a melted baby.” You tinker too much, and you’re a whoopsah.
Katherine then shared her own opinions, saying, “Yes, you can get lost in the game. I believe that physical age, like what we’re talking about, requires a lot more of the Botox and filler because it makes you look older even more.
Joanne later went over to compliment Katherine’s lip, but she quickly said, “No! They’re a fraud. It was a fraud. I need a lip lift first, she said, “after talking about her own experiences.”
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Travis Kelce gave a rare glimpse into how he envisions fatherhood during a recent episode of his New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with his brother Jason Kelce. The conversation turned to parenting advice after a listener asked how to handle “feral children” – a question that sparked some candid, if unconventional, responses from the NFL stars.
Jason and wife Kylie just welcomed their fourth child, and he once made up a joke about how sometimes you just need to let them figure it out. What else is there to do besides remove the sharp objects and keep any weapons nearby?
Travis, 35, meanwhile, defended his less-is-more philosophy, saying, “I think to safe the house and safe the objects in the house… f**king tell them to go outside.”
A little chaos, according to the brothers, might not be the worst thing: “This is just something that’s going to sort itself out,” they said. “Integrate it,” They will learn to avoid doing stupid s**t the more they f*ck themselves up.
Fans have long speculated about Travis’s future with girlfriend Taylor Swift, with talk of marriage heating up after nearly two years of dating. But the tight end has also noted his NFL commitments might delay any major personal milestones, with the 2025 season kicking off in September.
Earlier this month, Travis become an uncle again, and he and Taylor, 35, were quick to celebrate the new addition. The Super Bowl mainstay apparently has family plans of his own, but doesn’t miss out on doting on his nieces as their beloved ‘Uncle Travvy.’
Back in March, Travis’ older brother and his wife Kylie welcomed their fourth daughter, revealing that they had named her Finnley ‘Finn’ Anne Kelce after leaving the tot nameless on the birth certificate at first.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis virtually met Finn as he and Jason video called for their New Heights podcast, complaining that Jason had “only sent one picture” – but he and his girlfriend Taylor had already congratulated the new parents.
The A-list couple sent “a huge assortment of flowers and other little gifts” to the Kelces, whom Taylor has become very close to over her time dating Travis. A source shared to Life and Style: “They are so happy for them.” They then added that with Finn “Jason and Kylie both feel their family is complete,” but teasingly joked: “Never say never, though!”
While the insider suggested that Jason and Kelce might consider adding to their brood with baby number five, Taylor and Travis are rumoured to have baby fever of their own. Towards the end of 2023, a source close to the couple claimed: “They’re already making plans for the future. He and Taylor have even talked about kids.
Taylor, of course, is all in, and Travis wants them in the next year or so. She has been waiting for him for a long time. He claimed he sees himself getting married to Taylor.
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