One minute, Conor and Nigel Benn are baring their souls about addiction and suicidal thoughts, and the tears begin to well and their voices crack. The next, they are keeled over and crying with laughter as they trade insults and wrestle in the precarious vicinity of the swimming pool at their villa in the hills of Mallorca.
It is the fraught final days of the training camp ahead of Conor’s bout against Chris Eubank Jr on Saturday, reprising British boxing’s greatest rivalry 35 years after their fathers first spilled each other’s blood.
“I do feel the history. I want to right the wrong,” Conor says of Nigel’s ninth-round defeat by Eubank at the NEC in Birmingham in 1990, in which his left eye swelled hideously
