Chris Eubank Jr.’s brother-in-law and promoter of Conor Benn, Frank Smith, has responded to Eubank’s critical comments on him.
Chris Eubank Jr. defeated Conor Benn weeks ago to secure the biggest win of his career and a second win over the Benn name in their family rivalry.
Ahead of the fight, though, Eubank made his gripes known with Benn’s promotional team, including Matchroom CEO Frank Smith, who is in a longstanding relationship with Eubank’s sister, Emily Eubank.
Chris Eubank Jr. launches damning critique of Frank Smith and Eddie Hearn
Since winning their fight, Eubank made an appearance on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, in which he called Smith and Eddie Hearn dangerous, and suggested that he would never be civil with Smith again, despite the relationship with his sister.
Eubank, who wants to fight Canelo next year, claims that the promoters’ efforts to encourage a fighter who failed a PED test to still participate in the sport against him is tantamount to attempted murder.
He said: “Frank Smith is trying to sabotage, or was trying to sabotage certain things going on in my career, being a part of Matchroom. As soon as I learnt that, it doesn’t matter that you’re in a relationship with my sister. We are never going to talk again.”
“He was sat in that arena, on Saturday night, praying that I lose.”
Eubank, who lost to Billy Joe Saunders, concluded: “These people are dangerous.”
Frank Smith responds to Eubank Jr.’s ‘personal’ attack with scathing critique of his own
In a response with The Stomping Ground, Smith responded to Eubank Jr.’s claims:
“If that’s your perception of me, and that’s your perception of the way we do business, then why did your team want you to sign with us?”
Smith suggested Eubank has never spoken to him privately or directly about any of his claims, and that Eubank’s comments were deeply personal.
He did, however, conclude: “I’m a big boy, I’ve got to get over it.”