The emotional Benn took his loss with humility. Benn was overpowered by Eubank Jr., who settled his festering grudge with Conor Benn on Saturday. Benn, 28, had been inactive for three years due to a prohibition for a positive drug test,

The rivalry between Benn and Eubank dates back to a pair of fights between their fathers in the 1990s. Eubank Sr. knocked out Nigel Benn in the first meeting before the pair battled to a draw in the rematch in a rivalry that did big domestic business in the United Kingdom.

“He surprised me,” said Eubank Jnr after the fight. “I didn’t know he had what he had in him. I really didn’t. I thought I would break him early. I underestimated him. I didn’t train for a fight like that.”