TOTTENHAM, NORTH LONDON -- Chris Eubank Jnr started as he meant to go on during Thursday's London press conference for his April 26 grudge match against Conor Benn, insisting he didn't cross any lines before debunking Matchroom chief Eddie Hearn's claims at a 60-40 financial split, among other public declarations.

Having been escorted to his seat after a very deliberate security search, with egg detector labelled on the scanner, the 35-year-old didn't flinch when asked by DAZN's Ade Oladipo whether he crossed a line on Tuesday. The Ring reported that the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) confirmed punishments could follow after Eubank slapped Benn with an egg during their Manchester face-off.

"During this whole process many lines have been crossed, I'm sitting on a stage with two of the scummiest characters in boxing, a drug cheat and a man who did everything in his power to help him get away with it.

So me throwing an egg at somebody who absurdly claims that is the reason he failed two drug tests - contaminated eggs - that's light, he deserved the embarrassment. If I had an opportunity to do it again, I would, unfortunately today I'm unarmed and was thoroughly searched multiple times."

The two-division, three-time IBO world champion promised a "bloodbath" and likened this matchup to the first fight between their famous fathers, one Chris Eubank Sr won via ninth-round stoppage for the WBO world middleweight championship at Birmingham's Resorts World Arena in November 1990.

As was the case on Tuesday night, he again insisted he didn't want to talk nor hear from Hearn as Benn's promoter openly questioned his desire ahead of their lucrative two-fight deal brokered by Turki Alalshikh, Riyadh Season head and chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertaiment Authority.

"Uncle Turki flew in and saved the day like the superhero he is, this is a Saudi show, he called me and said 'I want it, so what do you want to make this fight?' I gave him a diabolical, inconceivable number and he said done, I'll send you a contract on Monday.

"There's no splits or percentages, no 60-40 split, you [Hearn] lied in-front of everybody. If you lie to the public, I'm going to respond, I'm not one of your puppets, I'm setting it straight. Turki owns the show, guaranteed purses and thanks to him for that."

When the topic of their rematch clause was brought up, Eubank Jnr instead pivoted to something entirely different and said it had always bothered him.

"The first fight, 20,000 people bought tickets. Hotel rooms, plane tickets, accommodation, planned their whole weekend about this fight and none were compensated by Eddie/Matchroom/Conor.

Worse than that, the undercard... there were a number of fighters who went through entire camps - they aren't cheap - thousands if not tens of thousands on trainers, gym fees, nutritionists, physiotherapy, these fighters all paid for their camps, lost all that money and were never compensated."

Eubank Jnr, who also suffered financially from their original October 2022 bout being cancelled during fight week, said he will "set it right" by giving £50,000 from his incoming purse for those affected undercard fighters to split among themselves after incurring losses that were ultimately out of their control and never repaid.

There were eight scheduled undercard bouts for that bill at The O2 in south-east London, with a series of notable names including Chris' younger cousin Harlem (20-0, 8 KOs), now-unified world super-bantamweight titleholder Ellie Scotney (10-0) and Olympic flyweight champion Galal Yafai (9-0, 7 KOs) among others.

Conor largely kept quiet throughout the back-and-forth between his promoter and long-time rival, though took umbrage when Chris warned Nigel against putting hands on him again, after the 61-year-old's emotionally-charged reaction to the egg incident saw him grab Eubank Jnr by the throat two days earlier.

"You fought for an IBO world title in a leisure centre, I got offered that and turned it down, it may be hard for you to hear, it's not a legitimate world title! He's an idiot, that's all there is to say, I can't wait for him to get sparked out, his team are pretending. You've got a dysfunctional team, your dad don't like you, shut your f-----g mouth, I can't wait, just talking s---, don't you ever threaten my dad again."

The pair were kept separate by eight security guards for a face-off on stage, before the same unfolded on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium pitch, this time with no incident besides some jawing between Benn and Eubank Jnr's promoter Ben Shalom.