After everything that’s been done and everything that’s been said - who on earth would have seen this coming?

"I thought he did really well and he learnt a lot from this,” Nigel said. “He was working too much on the ropes, but that is taking nothing away from Chris - it was his night.

"We can handle defeat gracefully and now we go back to the drawing board."

It is difficult to know where to begin, but at the end, Chris Eubank Jr sank to his knees as his father stood proudly by his side, while Conor Benn embraced his own father and closed his eyes, perhaps wishing to drift into a dreamworld away from the very real nightmare around him.

Also around him were 67,000 souls, 67,000 witnesses to his demise after so many threats, so much snarling, so much aggression – an aggression which simply could not deliver the decisive blow he had craved for years.

Make no mistake, this was not an emphatic demise; in fact, the 28-year-old had fought valiantly in a boxing match that resembled a theatrical melodrama more than a sporting contest. Instead, his downfall played out over 12 rounds, with victory so often appearing within his twitchy grasp.

That’s your lot for the post-fight press conferences!

With Eubank Jr in the hospital, it’s only Benn we’ll be hearing from tonight.

Conor is asked if he respects or likes Eubank Jr and ums and ahs before saying, “but he’s Chris, isn’t he? So I like him about as much as I can...”

Nigel jokingly pushes him for a proper answer, ha.

Some playful banter between the Benns, over the fact that neither could quite get it done against a Eubank.

Eddie Hearn says the terms for this fight were “perfect” and served up one of the greatest fights in British boxing.