'He's going to die...' Chris Eubank Jr opens up on experience after Conor Benn fight

Chris Eubank Jr has opened up on his stay in hospital after his brutal fight with Conor Benn.

The rivals clashed over 12 bloody rounds at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last month with Eubank Jr winning by unanimous decision. He was taken straight to hospital where he spent 48 hours as he struggled with dehydration. And he has revealed he was lying next to a patient who was in critical condition.

"I was in the hospital, lying in the bed and they had IV drops to get all the liquid into your system," . "My bladder was and I needed to pee. for about two hours I would stand over the toilet and it would not go, and I'm dying to go, that's how dehydrated I was, my body wouldn't let any liquid go, it was holding on to everything.

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"There were moments in that hospital when I was feeling... I saw myself in the mirror; my face was all puffed up, I had a massive cut across my eye, my headache is crazy. I'm feeling sorry for myself; I've got my family around me, some of them are crying and I'm thinking, 'This is so bad'.

"I'm lying there, I've got my oxygen mask on, I can hear everything that is going on. Somebody gets wheeled into the room next to me, there are no walls, it's just sheers. I'm saying, 'Get me the morphine', but they can until they sign off on some stuff. Then I hear the doctors saying, 'We have to operate on him now otherwise he's going to die'.

"I heard that from the other room and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm great, I'm blessed, I don't need to feel sorry for myself'. I know I was in pain but there's a guy next to me who's about to die, what am I doing feeling bad for myself?"

Eubank Jr admitted he didn't expect to be taken the distance by Benn and admitted the final stages of the bout forced him to dig deep. "Well, I had to come outside of myself. It became spiritual. It wasn't about the physical. I was dehydrated. I was experiencing all the things that had been restricting me leading up to the fight," he added.

"Should I give up? Should I take a knee? Should I run? No. We are going to war. We are going to leave everything we have in this ring because this fight is gonna be remembered forever. I wasn't willing to go the rest of my life knowing that I didn't give it my all."