However you personally felt about Eubank Jnr vs. Benn going in, the feeling afterwards would have been the same. Like the aftermath of the wedding, or the funeral, or the dinner party you had been dreading,

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.