LONDON: IBO middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr has been fined 100,000 pounds ($129,210) by the British Boxing Board of Control for slapping upcoming opponent Conor Benn with an egg at a press conference last month, British media reported on Tuesday.

A fight between Britons Eubank Jr and Benn, sons of former two-division world champions who were arch-rivals, was called off in 2022 when Benn tested positive for trace amounts of fertility drug clomifene.

The World Boxing Council cleared Benn of intentional doping in 2023, saying a `highly elevated consumption of eggs` was a reasonable explanationfor thefailed tests.

Eubank Jr cited that explanation as the reason why he slapped Benn with an egg ahead of their April 26 bout.

`Live by the egg, die by the egg,` he wrote on Instagram after the incident.-Reuters