Boxing fans spot who Eddie Hearn immediately targets and SHOVES during Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn press conference chaos

Boxing fans spotted Eddie Hearn pushing fellow promoter Ben Shalom during the fracas which follow Chris Eubank Jr egging his opponent Conor Benn during their incendiary face-off on Tuesday evening.

Eubank Jr and Benn have been locked in a bitter conflict for nearly three years, with their planned meeting in the ring in October 2022 called off after Benn tested positive for banned substance clomifene.

The pair are now set to meet 30 months on from the cancellation at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April, but hostilities started ahead of time when Benn and Eubank Jr met at their launch press conference in Manchester.

As they came together for the head-to-head, Eubank Jr slapped Benn across his right cheek with an egg, sparking a brawl.

As members of both teams and security teams rushed to the stage in a bid to separate the two fighters, however, Eubank Jr's promoter Hearn appeared to take the opportunity to get involved.

Eagle-eyed fans on social media noted that in the melee, Hearn appeared to push Benn's promoter Ben Shalom in the back.

Hearn was later held back by a member of security but as Shalom rounded on him, strained against them in a bid to continue the confrontation.

The two promoters are no strangers to conflict between themselves, with Hearn previously claiming that Shalom has 'aspired to be (him) forever' adding that he is 'Eddie Hearn from Wish'.

Hearn also shared that he believed a joke he made threatening to knock Shalom out saw the promoter turn 'white like Caspar the Ghost'.

Explaining his reasoning for egging his rival, Eubank Jr shared on social media: 'Apparently egg contamination was the reason for his two failed drugs tests. So I contaminated him with an egg.'

The comment refers to Benn's 2022 suggestion that his positive tests could have been due to his consumption of too many eggs.

Benn later denied that was the reason for the failed tests as he fought to prove his innocence.

He was finally cleared to fight again in the UK in November by an anti-doping panel, and his fight with Eubank Jr was announced last month.

But that didn't stop Eubank Jr taunting Benn about his egg excuse at Tuesday's press conference.

Questioning his rival, Eubank Jr said: 'Conor, I've been meaning to ask you this for a long time, it's interested me. How many eggs did you have to eat to fail those two drugs tests you dirty little omelette?'

Benn shot back: 'The reality is, I've been cleared three times by the NADP, by the WBC, by UKAD, people who are a lot smarter than you. I've been cleared.

'Two, you will never be cleared of being a w*****. You have the IQ of a five-year-old child.'

Family pride is at stake when Eubank Jr and Benn finally fight, after their fathers fought each other twice in the 1990s.

Eubank Sr famously beat Benn in a classic bout in 1990, before the pair fought to a draw three years later.

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Over 30 years on, Conor Benn is now seeking revenge for his dad, and has added motivation after Tuesday's chaotic press conference.

But after the dust settled, Hearn hinted that further drama beyond the ring could see the fight called off again due to their mutual enmity.

'What's happened now is the game has changed,' Hearn said. 'And if you do that, you have to live with the consequences of that.

'We have to put provisions in place - put a lid on it - to make this doesn't get out of control.

'Because if they see each other now? The whole fight is off. Because they are scrapping to the absolute end.'