When Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn nearly brawled on a TV show and had to be kept apart
Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn nearly brawled when they filmed ‘Gladiator’ TV show together and reignited their rivalry, but pair embraced by the end of the journeyThe craziest trilogy fight in the history of combat sports came when bitter rivals Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr trained as gladiators then fought one another with swords, shields and maces in front of a baying crowd.
With 18 million watching Benn-Eubank II on British TV, a third fight looked nailed-on but was never quite signed. “We spent three bloody years talking, but Chris is impossible,” Benn lamented. The opening credits saw a man in full Russell Crowe getup run his rival through with a trident – Brick Tamland style – which might have set the bar for violence a bit high even for this pair. There followed an introduction to the duo’s current lives: Eubank lord of the manor in Hove, Benn with his family in Majorca – complete with a cameo of six-year-old Conor Benn shadow boxing with his dad.Under the merciless sun in Ostia Antica Gladiator Camp in Italy, however, things got tougher.
Still, it was Benn who took to the swordplay quickest, winning the first endurance challenge. The tension erupted on day two, however, when the pair were chained together and tasked with guarding the other’s back with a shield .Eubank won and couldn’t resist rubbing it in. “He’s only interested in looking after himself, that’s my observation. No disrespect,” he said disrespectfully, before adding that they should bring in some boxing gloves tomorrow and “have a little session”.
“I’m going for the neck, the jugular, all the vital parts,” said Benn after round one. Meanwhile Eubank, cut by the eye and on the lip, assessed: “He’s not a pussycat in there playing games. Look at me, this is not fake blood.”clobbered him with a blunted mace, showing no mercy when ‘Simply the Best’ dropped to all fours. Eubank got in the final shot, bonking his nemesis on the head, but it looked like another Benn round.
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