A furious Conor Benn had to be held back by security after his opponent Chris Eubank Jr. smashed an egg across his face during their extraordinary boxing match face-off on Tuesday.

Conor Benn has arrived at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in an impressive suit ahead of his second press conference with Chris Eubank Jr . Benn and Eubank Jr are set to meet at the Premier League ground on April 26 in a fight which has thrusted itself into the British public psyche following an eventful press conference in Manchester on Tuesday.

At a boxing face-off with his 26th of April opponent Conor Benn, whom he fights at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, the boxers could be seen exchanging heated words on stage. Eubank then strikes Benn across the face and the slow-motion replay shows that the egg in his hand exploded onto Benn's cheek.