Chris Eubank Jr has worn a rainbow armband to his weigh-in with Liam Smith following the latter's homophobic slurs.
Chris Eubank Jr sported a rainbow armband following his unpleasant exchange with Liam Smith as the pair came in under the middleweight limit for Saturday night’s grudge bout.
He kept the accessory on throughout a frosty and protracted staredown with Smith which passed off without incident after the pair had both scaled 11st 5lbs – one pound below the middleweight cut-off. Eubank Jr wrote on Twitter afterwards: ‘We don’t discriminate… we don’t alienate. We want boxing & sport as a whole, to be all inclusive.’supports HTML5 video
While Benn insisted he is innocent and ‘the truth will soon come out’, public perception seems to have shifted in favour of Eubank Jr, so often a pantomime villain in the build-up to and during fights.
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