CHRIS EUBANK JR butted heads with Spring opponent Conor Benn after body snatching Kamil Szeremeta.
The 35-year-old Brighton bruiser dropped the once-tough Pole four times inside seven rounds to get his first win back after 13 months.
Then welterweight rival Benn, 28, leaped into the ring to start promoting their overdue cash-grab clash that collapsed two years ago after a couple of failed drugs tests from the son of British ring legend Nigel.
The pair touched shiny foreheads and promised plenty before shuffling off to count their proposed cash.
The bearded victor said: “I could have finished that in the first round but I was having fun in there and I wanted to prepare for the big fight that is coming next.”
After 13 months out of the ring, Eubank Jr blew away the cobwebs and almost his Polish opponent in the first minute.
A textbook one-two right down the pipe robbed Szeremeta of his senses and he ducked down into the canvas for a count of eight.
Eubank Jr refused to rush in but his coolness almost cost him when the Brighton brawler was whacked with a right hand that sent him racing away from danger after an early scare.
Jr put on a beautiful second-round showing of uppercuts that would have dropped a lesser opponent.
The rasping blows were whipped up from his hip and slashed into Szeremeta’s tough face to earn him another round and a huge boost in confidence.
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After a sizzling six minutes, the third round turned scrappy and clumsy. Eubank Jr fell to the canvas twice, without a knockdown scored.
And then a cut emerged above the Brit’s right eye that appeared to have come from a head clash but was confirmed to have been the result of a punch by the ref at the start of round five.
There were brief flashes of the brilliant Eubank Jr who starched Liam Smith last September at the start of the fourth.
But either his ring rust or Szeremeta’s courage flattened out his performance in the final two minutes of the session.
The fifth was a dull affair after Eubank Jr’s OTT vows to shimmy, shine and shellack his way to a sensational victory faded into the empty atmosphere.
In round six Szeremeta was decked with just 15 seconds left but he spent only two on the canvas before bouncing back up from a right hook to the ribs and one to the head.
But in the seventh round he was decked two more times with booming shots to the ribs and the referee rightly waved it off to let the pantomime begin.
The infamy-loving pair met in a blatantly staged confrontation on Friday afternoon – miraculously with every click snatching boxing YouTube channel herded into the exact same space
And on Saturday night – with Brazil superstar Neymar standing between them in a denim waistcoat – they posed and preened and talked rubbish ahead of their clash in 2025.
