Chris Eubank Jr has posted a photo of his jacket minutes before slapping Conor Benn with an egg during a dramatic face-off.
Eubank Jr slapped Benn around the face with the egg after his opponent made a remark towards him in their face-off.
The pair had been participated in a press conference to promote their re-arranged fight, which takes place on April 26 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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They were due to fight in October 2022 but the bout was postponed after Benn returned what promoters described as an 'adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug'.
He was provisionally charged and suspended by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) from fighting in the United Kingdom, but he was cleared of an intentional doping offence by the WBC.
They deemed that a 'highly-elevated consumption of eggs' was a 'reasonable explanation' for the adverse finding. UKAD subsequently lifted their ban after the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP), an independent tribunal, were not 'comfortably satisfied' that UKAD had proven its case against Benn.
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In a tweet after the slap incident, Eubank Jr confirmed that the egg saga was indeed behind his decision to launch an egg into Benn's face.
He subsequently posted a photo to his Instagram account, which showed the presence of several more eggs in his jacket pocket prior to appearing in the press conference.
Benn, unsurprisingly, didn't take the slap well, writing on Twitter: "That's the only shot you'll land on me you f***ing p***k. 2 rounds you are finished."
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Promoter Eddie Hearn, meanwhile, gave a two-word response when asked for his immediate reaction to the incident by DAZN, and later told Sky Sports: "He came on stage with an egg. I thought it was glass. The noise and the way it shattered was like a glass.
"The thing is with Eubank is that everything is pre-meditated. He's sat there at night and thought, 'I'm going to hit him round the face with an egg'.
"The game is the game, the fight is the fight. All bets are off. Anything goes. You've gone to that level. Thursday at Spurs. It's on sight."
Topics: Boxing, Boxing News, Eddie Hearn
Ryan Smart