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Chris Eubank Jr has opened up about being hospitalised following his fight with Conor Benn, revealing that his family were in tears at his bedside as he was left bloodied and bruised from the bout.
In a thrilling middleweight clash at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last month, Eubank Jr defeated his bitter rival on points, with all three judges scoring the fight 116-112 in his favour. The victory saw him claim bragging rights in the long-running feud between the two fighters’ families, which started when their fathers Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn first fought each other in 1990.
After celebrating his win, however, the 35-year-old was immediately taken to hospital following the fight on the recommendation of the on-site doctor.
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While he was taken there as a precautionary measure, he ended up staying in hospital for two nights, having suffered from severe dehydration after a drastic attempt to cut weight ahead of the fight.
Despite going the full 12 rounds with Benn, Eubank Jr showed no signs of sweating after the fight, having seemingly dried himself out completely in the build-up.
Confirming he was hospitalised with dehydration, he told The Diary of a CEO podcast: “I was in the hospital, lying in the bed and they had IV drops to get all the liquid into your system.
“My bladder was [full] and I needed to pee. For about two hours I would stand over the toilet and it would not go, and I’m dying to go.
“That’s how dehydrated I was, my body wouldn’t let any liquid go, it was holding on to everything.
“There were moments in that hospital when I was feeling… I saw myself in the mirror; my face was all puffed up, I had a massive cut across my eye, my headache is crazy,” he added.
“I’m feeling sorry for myself; I’ve got my family around me, some of them are crying and I’m thinking, ‘This is so bad’.”
However, Eubank Jr added that he ended up sharing the ward with someone in a critical condition, which made him thankful that he was not in a worse state.
“I’m lying there, I’ve got my oxygen mask on, I can hear everything that is going on,” he said. “Somebody gets wheeled into the room next to me, there are no walls, it’s just sheets.
“I’m saying, ‘Get me the morphine’, but they can’t until they sign off on some stuff. Then I hear the doctors saying, ‘We have to operate on him now otherwise he’s going to die’.
“I heard that from the other room and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m great, I’m blessed, I don’t need to feel sorry for myself’. I know I was in pain but there’s a guy next to me who’s about to die,” he added. “What am I doing feeling bad for myself and complaining about a headache and a cut eye? He’s about to die.
“They wheeled him off and I don’t know what happened to him. I pray that he’s okay but that put everything into perspective for me, I’m blessed, I’m going to be okay.”