Chris Eubank Jr has been fined £100,000 for slapping Conor Benn in the face with an egg at their press conference in Manchester last month, the British Boxing Board of Control has confirmed.

"Following a hearing before the Stewards of the British Boxing Board of Control, Chris Eubank Jnr. was found to be in breach of Regulation 25 (misconduct) for his conduct at the press conference in Manchester for the Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn contest on 26th April 2025," the Board's statement read.

"As such, the Stewards of the Board fined Chris Eubank Jr the sum of £100,000."

Eubank Jr (34-3, 25 KOs) and Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) are set to clash in a huge middleweight fight on April 26 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The event will be promoted by Ring Magazine in association with SNK Games, the creators of the video game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Their bout will come 35 years after their fathers Chris Sr and Nigel, two legends of British boxing, fought two gruelling middleweight and super-middleweight title battles in the 1990s.

Both men were originally scheduled to fight in October 2022 but Benn failed two pre-fight drug tests administered by Voluntary Anti-Doping Control (VADA) and the event was called off. Clomifene was the banned substance found in Benn's system.

But the 28-year-old's provisional suspension has since been lifted and after fighting twice in the US since then, he is now cleared to compete in the UK.

It was claimed that Benn's positive tests were as a result of an over-consumption of eggs, hence Eubank Jr's presser stunt.

After the slap, which caused an on-stage melee in which both fighters had to be separated by security, Eubank Jr further goaded his rival on social media.

"Apparently egg contamination was the reason for his two failed drugs tests. So I contaminated him with an egg," he wrote.

Benn hasn't boxed since a unanimous decision win over Peter Dobson on February 3, 2024. Eubank Jr was last in action in October, beating Kamil Szeremeta by seventh-round stoppage on the Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol I undercard.