Chris Eubank Jr reveals six-word message from dad on eve of Conor Benn fight

has revealed his dad texted him the night before his fight with in a bid to patch up their relationship.

Both Jr and Sr haven't been on speaking terms over the last few years. In the build-up to the blockbuster showdown last month, the and labelled him a 'disgrace' and insisted the fight wouldn't take place after stating Eubank Jr would have to 'boil himself' down to make the middleweight limit of 160lb.

On fight night, many were left in north London and support his son in the biggest fight of his life. He was shown stepping out of his car on the big screen during one of the undercard fights - to huge cheers from the crowd.

Now, in a one-on-one chat on the show, Eubank Jr revealed his father got in touch with him the night before the fight, expressing his desire to be in his son's corner. "I had bullets coming from my family, my father. A couple of days before the biggest fight of my life, he's going into the media and saying that I'm a disgrace. I'm already under a lot of stress, under a lot of pressure, and then I've got to hear this. I'm like 'Jesus, how much worse is it going to get?' It was tough. It was really tough. But, on the subject of my father, regardless of what he said about me and about the fight, he was there when it mattered the most.

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"And that means everything. I didn't know he was going to come. He called me. He texts me the day before the fight, the night before the fight. He said 'call me when you see this.' So, I saw the text and I thought you know what? We are less than a day away.... this is the night before the biggest fight of my life. The last thing I can be doing is being on the phone listening to negativity because that's all he had come with for the last six, eight weeks. 'The fight's not going to happen. The fight shouldn't be happening. Weights are not right. He egged him, he's a disgrace. It's a circus, it's a sham, I will never be in my son's corner.' This is all I'm hearing from him for two months. 'Don't do this fight, Chris.'

"This is all I'm hearing so I'm sitting there reading this message and I haven't spoken to him and I'm thinking 'I can't deal with this right now.' Call him? For what? So he can say not to take the fight. I've got to rest, I've got to focus. A couple of hours go by, maybe nine, ten o'clock, I'm like 'you know what, I've been through so much s*** these last two months, what more could possibly be thrown at me?' At the end of the day, he's my old man. He's text me, I'm going to hear him out.

"So, I call him. I was about to go to sleep and I thought 'I'll call him.' As soon as he picked the phone up, there was a tone in his voice that I hadn't heard for years. It was a tone of happiness, likeness, joy, 'hey, how you doing son? What's going on? How're you feeling?' I said 'how am I feeling? When have you worried about how I'm feeling? I'm good dad, everything is cool. Just getting ready to go to sleep. Got a big day tomorrow.' He said 'yeah, I know you've got a big day tomorrow and I want to be there for you.'"

A shocked Eubank Jr, at first, was adamant that what he was hearing was simply a dream. However, he soon realised his father well and truly wanted to be by his side. The 35-year-old revealed he bought his father a room as well as paying for an Uber to get to the hotel.

At that moment, the pair were reunited - with Eubank Sr insisting he was always going to be there on fight night. "So I heard that and I'm like 'is this a dream? This is Chris Eubank Sr I'm speaking to? Who is this?' 'Yeah, it's me son. Let's do this together. Where are you?' Said I'm at my hotel. He said 'all right, I'll come to your hotel. We'll speak and let's do it.' 'Okay, dad.' I ordered him an Uber, 20 minutes later, he was at my hotel.," Eubank Jr continued. "I got him a room. We went up to the room, we sat down and he said 'I was always going to come. I was always going to be there for you.'"

He added: "In my mind, I'm thinking 'if I had just gone to sleep, what happens? Would you still be here? We haven't had any communication. I knew how hard it was for him to send me that text of 'call me when you see this' because he doesn't do that. It's been years since he tried to have that contact with me. I think if I just ignored it, then we wouldn't be sitting here today talking about this amazing event that had unfolded. Because, make no mistake, him being there made a difference. It made it something that will now go down in history. Movies are made about this type of stuff. If I go in there alone, it's just a fight. It would've been a great fight still, but to have that fantasy of a father and son coming together after going through so much... my brother passing away, all the stuff in the media, all the friction."

In the end, Eubank Jr walked to the centre of the ring with his father by his side and put on a career defining display. 'Next Gen' would go on . However, Eubank Jr was fully prepared for a hostile environment without his father in his corner.

"To see that able to be put to one side and to unite, to come together, to walk into that ring, it's an incredible thing. I get emotional thinking about it because it was so unexpected. I had envisioned in my mind for the last two years, me walking into the ring alone. It never crossed my mind that my old man would be behind me. I envisioned walking to the ring alone, being booed and getting into that ring and fighting with anger in my heart. That's what I thought that fight was going to be.

"What it turned out to be was, I'm walking to the ring, my old man is behind me, he's with me, and for the first time in my whole career, I'm walking through a crowd and there's no boos. I'm used to walking to the ring and I'm looking up and people are going 'f*** you. You're going to get knocked out.' And I feed off of that dark energy and I use it against my opponents. That's been my life for my whole career really. In this fight, I'm walking past people and I'm seeing tears in their eyes. I'm seeing grown men with tears in their eyes and smiles."