Trying to make Chris Eubank vs Conor Benn happen was like coming into a car crash, they hate each other, says Ben Shalom

BOXING promoter Ben Shalom has likened making Chris Eubank Jr’s combat against Conor Benn to a car crash.

The feuding brace finally agreed to combat past month aft years of bickering.

Eubank Jr and Benn volition collide connected April 26 at Tottenham’s 62,000-seater stadium.

And it volition yet laic to remainder the ghosts of their failed clash successful October 2022.

The scrap was axed erstwhile Benn failed 2 Voluntary Anti-Doping Association Tests.

The unbeaten welterweight contender past had the combat of his beingness to effort and beryllium his innocence and get his vocation backmost connected track.

Benn, 28, was aboriginal charged by UK Anti-Doping and a bitter quality with the British Boxing Board of Control ensued aft the combatant was stripped of his license.

It saw him instrumentality his vocation to America, wherever helium had 2 regular wins up astatine super-welterweight against Rodolfo Orozco and Peter Dobson.

Eubank, 35, went connected to person a treble header with Liam Smith, 36, losing the archetypal by KO earlier winning the rematch by stoppage.

He past bushed Kamil Szeremeta successful his past bout successful October - with Benn ringside successful Saudi Arabia.

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Following his seventh-round stoppage of Szeremeta, 35, helium faced disconnected with Benn successful the ringing to substance speculation their bitter bout was backmost on.

And a period later, UKAD released a connection to corroborate Benn's prohibition had been lifted - clearing him to combat connected location ungraded again.

Boxxer laminitis and combat promoter Shalom has present lifted the lid connected the trouble of mounting up Eubank Jr’s combat against Benn.

Speaking to Betfred, helium likened negotiations to a car clang and admits Turki Al-Sheikh was the driving unit down the bout.

Shalom said: “The happening astir Chris Eubank Jr. vs Conor Benn is that it’s bigger than boxing, and there’s precise fewer events that are, truthful of people getting it implicit the enactment was tricky.

“We weren’t progressive successful the archetypal scheduled combat with the chaos surrounding the cause investigating and failed drugs tests, truthful we came into an implicit car crash, which progressive 2 fighters that perfectly hatred each other.

“They don’t adjacent privation to speech to each different oregon springiness anything, but it was the combat to make.

“Both fighters were talking astir doing different fights and each this, but we ever knew that this was the combat to make. It was hard, everything was an argument.

“For me, Chris Eubank Jr. is acold and distant the A broadside and bigger sanction and of people I’m going to accidental that, but I deliberation his resume proves that and the fights he’s been successful earlier beryllium that, but we were dealing with a tricky quality and different promoter successful Matchroom.

“It was astir similar afloat circle, I person to beryllium honest, due to the fact that erstwhile I came into the sport, astir apt Matchroom astatine the time, adjacent though that’s changed present with Frank Warren, were the leaders and they were trying to marque our beingness very, precise difficult, truthful to travel afloat ellipse and beryllium astatine the negotiating array for Eubank Jr. vs Benn is simply a brainsick communicative and boxing’s afloat of brainsick stories.

“We yet got it implicit the enactment with the assistance of His Excellency (Turki Al-Sheikh) due to the fact that helium was capable to instrumentality ego retired of the model and Conor didn’t person to spot however overmuch Chris was earning, which I deliberation was fractional the battle.

“The involvement successful it is huge, the past is immense and it’s decidedly 1 that volition spell down successful the past books and beryllium remembered for a precise agelong time, truthful I’m delighted to beryllium progressive successful what I judge volition beryllium the biggest amusement successful British boxing, if not boxing, this year.”