SONS OF A BITCH

Eggstra spicy as pair aim to settle 35-year family feud

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IF this is a fight built on the foundations of a rivalry between their fathers then it is fair to say the doping scandal is the blocks that have made this the event that it is.

The sons of two British sporting icons are supposedly putting family legacy on the line at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tonight.

Chris Eubank Jr, the son of Chris Sr, takes on Conor Benn, one of Nigel's offspring.

The biggest fight in British boxing history, as the promoters involved have claimed? That's exaggeration.

A 65,000 sell-out is the official line from those running the event, although tickets are freely available from numerous people around boxing and on resale sites below face value.

Yet the fact that both fighters will earn in the region of £7.5m for the bout - which is more than three times their purses for their initial October 2022 date - proves that the doping controversy has made this bigger.

It also helps that Saudi Arabia, under the Ring Magazine banner, are bankrolling it with a sponsorship from a computer game that does not have a name suitable to be associated with boxing.