Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn could lose £1million from fight purses

has revealed he will forfeit a whopping £1 million should he fail to adhere to the rehydration clause ahead of his fight with .

The British boxing stars are in London. Saturday night's fight will have a limit of 160lbs, with neither man allowed to add more than 10lb before the morning of the fight, a rule which favours Benn given Eubank Jr's size advantage.

The pair were due to go head-to-head back in October 2022, but the fight was scrapped just a few days before fight night . 'The Destroyer,' a natural welterweight, is stepping up two weight classes for the fight. And Eubank Jr revealed the penalty in place should either man be too heavy. In an interview with the , the 35-year-old said: “I can change my mind at any time but it will cost me a substantial amount of money. I don’t want to lose $1m so I’m pretty sure I’m going to stick to it.”

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He added: “They are paying me a separate fee to restrict my weight gain and rehydration. I was never going to do it for free.” Over the last few months, Benn has claimed that Eubank Jr's team first brought forward the idea of a rehydration clause - a claim in which the latter dismisses: “Why would I think: ‘Let me make this harder on myself and restrict my weight gain after a weigh-in for no reason?’”

He continued: “Another thing happened between me and Conor. We hadn’t been face to face for a long time. He chose to grow some balls and push me on the day that I was cutting weight for my previous fight [last October in Saudi Arabia]. He knew I was very weak and, because I’m boxing the next day, I’m not about to get in a fight with him. That shows you the character of Benn and Hearn, who was right next to him.”

Eubank Jr's dad has and has a real issues with Benn coming up two weight classes for the middleweight dust-up. The icon believes 'The Destroyer' by fighting above his preferred weight and is doing everything he can to persuade his son not to compete in the clash, insisting he's having to 'boil himself down' in order to make the 160lb limit.

However, Eubank Jr himself has rejected concerns about the weight cut. “I’ve been doing this for so many years and know my body. It can be horrific but it’s part of what fighters sign up for," he said. "If we’re going to make all this money, you have to make sacrifices. One of those sacrifices is starving yourself, dehydrating yourself, pulling yourself down to an extremely uncomfortable weight.”