Chris Eubank Jr may yet have his £100,000 fine for slapping Conor Benn with an egg increased after launching an appeal against the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) to have the punishment revoked.

Eubank Jr (34-3. 25 KOs) made headlines back in February when he pulled an egg from his pocket at the Manchester press conference for his fight with Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) and slapped it into his opponent's face, causing an on-stage melee which had to be dispersed by security.

The pair will clash at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next week on April 26 in what will be Ring Magazine's first ever boxing event in association with SNK Games, creators of FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves - live on DAZN PPV.

After Eubank Jr's egg stunt, he was fined £100k by the BBBofC after breaching regulation 25 (misconduct) of the board's rules.

The 35-year-old said, in an interview with The Ring, that he was baffled at the sum he was asked to shell out, suggesting that other fighters had done worse and been fined less.

Eubank Jr has moved forward with an appeal process, but the BBBofC's General Secretary Robert Smith says if he loses, the fine could be increased.

“There will be an appeal taking place,” Smith told talkSPORT. “So that fine could be reduced, or it could be increased.

“It goes in front of a completely independent [panel of] appeal stewards. Although they’re the BBBofC appeal stewards, they’re not the Board.

“[The hearing is in] June. [The appeal stewards] will make a decision there, [based] on Mr. Eubank’s argument that the fine was too heavy.

“I believe that the fine was about right.”

Eubank Jr and Benn were originally supposed to fight in October 2022 but the clash was cancelled after the latter failed two drug tests, conducted by Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA), for the banned substance Clomifene, a fertility drug.

The use of an egg from Eubank Jr was a nod to the suggestion from the WBC that Benn's failed tests, which he has now been cleared of, was as a result of an over-consumption of eggs.