Chris Eubank Jr has revealed that, in a recent conversation with Chris Sr, he told his legendary father that if he was still by his side, he wouldn't have slapped Conor Benn with an egg at their Manchester press conference in February.

Eubank Jr (34-3, 25 KOs) is set to fight Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) in a huge money-spinning middleweight contest at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26, an event which will be put on by The Ring in association with SNK Games, Matchroom and Boxxer.

The pair were supposed to fight in October 2022, and back then, Eubank Sr, who fought Nigel Benn in two world title contests of his own three decades ago, was against the fight taking places over fears his son would be weight-drained down at the 157-pound catchweight which was negotiated at the time.

The fight was eventually nixed after Benn failed two drug tests conducted by Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA). Now Benn has been cleared, the fight will go ahead at the 160-pound middleweight limit.

Eubank Jr and his dad, however, haven't been on regular speaking terms over the past several years, and Eubank Sr still doesn't believe the fight will go ahead.

But father and son eventually spoke, for the first time in 'a couple of years', at the beginning of March at Eubank Jr's cousin Harlem's fight against Tyrone McKenna in Brighton.

The now infamous egg-slap was discussed, and while Eubank Sr told his son he couldn't condone his actions, Eubank Jr admits he was in agreement, but that the mistake was for him to make on his own.

Eubank Jr told The Ring: "I spoke to him briefly a few weeks ago and I said exactly that. He said 'you shouldn't have done that, I don't condone that'. And I don't condone it either.

"I don't think anyone should attack or hit or do anything to like that to an opponent but I did it for a genuine reason, a real reason, it was a statement, it wasn't an act of violence.

"My thing was, I said to him 'I'm gonna write a book one day', and if he was still by my side advising and leading everything I did like he did at the start of my career, then in the book it would say 'I thought about hitting Conor with an egg but my dad told me no so I didn't do it'.

"That's what I would've written, and nobody gives a s--t about that story. The story now, whether it was wrong or right, the story is - I did it, and it made worldwide news, so for better or for worse, it's my story, it's my path, it's what I chose to do, and as a man, that's what I want to be able to write down.

"The things I'm doing are my own choices, they're my decisions to make, they're my successes and they're my failures, and I can live with that.

"I told him all this at Harlem's fight, I popped up there and I bumped into him and we talked for a few minutes before Harlem went out."

It's still unclear whether Eubank Sr will attend his son's fight with Benn, but Eubank Jr isn't feeling too confident about it at the moment.

However, he'll try whatever he can to get him there.

"I couldn't tell you," Eubank Jr added. "I hope and I pray he's there. I'll do things to try and get him there, but I can't answer that question at the moment, I don't know."