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Evening Standard
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Giuseppe Muro

Family matters as ‘born rivals’ Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr set to fight it out in huge boxing grudge match

Chris Eubank (left) and Chris Eubank Jr will continue their rivalry with the Benn clan

(Picture: Getty Images)

Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn will settle “unfinished business between our families” when they renew one of the greatest rivalries in British boxing in London this autumn.

The two will meet in a catchweight blockbuster at the O2 Arena on October 8, three decades after their fathers, Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn, fought in two iconic grudge matches in the Nineties. Eubank won the first fight in 1990, while the second ended in a draw in 1993.

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