“That man is the most terrifying man I have ever met,” says middleweight boxer Chris Eubank of his first bout of organised unpleasantness with Nigel Benn 34 years ago. Benn, then the world middleweight champion, went by the nickname the Dark Destroyer. “I’m dark and I destroy,” he explains for the dimmer bulbs of Prime Video’s demographic.
He had one aim that night in 1990 at Birmingham’s NEC: to prove that Eubank’s ring walk song, Tina Turner’s Simply the Best, was predicated on an imposture. How? By knocking the monocle-wearing popinjay’s head off. “I hated him,” Benn says.
