You wonder whether, as children, Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn were more afraid of the dark than the other kids. Because even in daylight – even once the creeping tendrils of the night had lurched back under the bed – the darkness persisted, lingering in the form of the longest shadows.
Those shadows were cast by Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn, and they have endured across decades, colouring the careers of the fighters’ sons. Eubank Jr and Benn have tried to outrun those shadows, even outbox them, but the boxing ring is the last place to find refuge from needling comparisons to the icons who raised these younger combatants.
