When the digital camera panned to a grinning Chris Eubank Sr stepping out of a black automotive, you half anticipated the Eastenders duff-duffs to swiftly comply with.
His arrival for his son’s bout with Conor Benn on Saturday night time was a scene worthy of any cleaning soap opera plot twist.
In a sport of high-quality margins, the reconciliation may have given his son, Chris Eubank Jr – who stated earlier than the combat he had not spoken to his father for years – the sting over Conor Benn in a rivalry steeped in historical past and drama.
After 12 gruelling back-and-forth rounds at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the normally composed Eubank fell to his knees when his title was learn out because the winner.
Benn welled up, tears masked by a stone-faced expression as he battled the frustration.
Anybody who has even loosely adopted boxing these previous two years will probably be acutely conscious how badly each males wished the win.
All of it started with a conflict of personalities and a bloodline feud inherited from their fathers’ iconic duel within the Nineteen Nineties.
The rivalry was blasted to heights larger than Katy Perry’s current transient house jaunt after Benn failed a medicine check, which led to the cancelation of their scheduled 2022 bout.
And it ended with each males, reasonably fittingly, within the arms of their legendary fathers.
As an emotional Benn took his defeat with humility, he additionally struck at what has been on the coronary heart of a combat that captivated a nation.
“A relationship together with your father is particular, I would decide a relationship with my dad over boxing any day,” Benn stated.
“If this combat introduced Chris and his dad collectively then that is value its weight in gold.”
Within the second, it is all too simple to rave in regards to the spectacle and exceeded expectations.
However is a rematch one of the best transfer for the fighters and British boxing?
Or after a two-year doping scandal, pointless egg slap and a criticised weight settlement, ought to we transfer on from this household feud?
