Chris Eubank Jnr vs Conor Benn fight: When is it and what time does it start?

Chris Eubank Jr and Connor Benn will be fined $100,000 (£83,000) for every pound they weigh in over the 157lb catchweight limit when they fight at the O2 Arena in October almost 30 years after the infamous rematch between their fathers.

Eubank Jr, son of Chris Eubank, made the staggering claim on Friday that given the weight cut he must make, that he will "only be at 60 per cent" but added that it will be enough to "school Benn and give him a boxing lesson, and liquidate him".

Benn, son of British boxing legend Nigel Benn, is going up in weight by 10lb from the welterweight (147lb) weight division, and the size and height difference was noticeable as the two fighters went head-to-head for the first time in London.

Eubank Jr currently fights at middleweight - 160lb - and has even campaigned as high as 168lb at world level. There is also a re-hydration clause limiting what Eubank can weigh in at on the Saturday morning of the fight, with Tony Sims, Benn's trainer,

insisting that if Eubank fails to stay under 158.5lbs on weigh-in day, the fight "will be off".

Eubank accepted the offer from promoter Eddie Hearn to fight Benn, following decades on from their fathers' iconic sequel in the 1990s. Eubank Sr won the first epic battle against Nigel Benn, in Birmingham, and they met again in  Manchester three years later - a draw - hotly disputed by Benn fans and many observers who believed 'The Dark Destroyer', his ring sobriquet, should have been adjudged the victory. There was talk of a trilogy, but it failed to come to fruition, the mantle taken up by their sons in an event labelled 'Born Rivals'.

Eubank Jr said: “It’s a fight that’s going to spark the imagination of the British public, that’s what I’m happy about. In terms of