Inside 934 days of Eubank-Benn bitterness and chaos

Reporters gathered in a London hotel on 6 October 2022 for a pre-fight news conference, only to be told the contest between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr – which was scheduled to take place two days later – had been cancelled.

That was the moment 934 days of chaos began, and transformed what was an intense rivalry between two families into a bitter feud.

The fight had been cancelled because Benn had failed a drugs test, which sent shockwaves through the sport.

It meant a delay to the start of the second generation of Benn-Eubank rivalry, following their fathers’ iconic fights in the early 1990s.

More than two years on, the pair will finally face off in the ring at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.

Eubank has told BBC Sport he wants “revenge” and to “make Benn pay”.

Benn, who has always protested his innocence, predicts “a one-sided beat-down”.

From Benn’s two-year doping battle to the infamous Eubank slap with an egg that left every tabloid headline writer scrambling for the best pun, it is hard to recall a fight already steeped in so much history, hatred and hostility before the chime of the first bell.