Chris Eubank Jr breaks silence on injuries suffered in Conor Benn fight

Chris Eubank Jr has rubbished claims he suffered a broken jaw against Conor Benn.

Eubank Jr was given the nod after 12 gruelling rounds last Saturday and was taken to hospital where he spent two nights before being released. But he denied he suffered any major injuries during the brutal bout at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

"When you get into a fight for 12 rounds, there are injuries that are sustained," he told . "I got headbutted above my eye around the middle of the fight. It opened up and I had to go and have surgery on that to sew it up.

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"Conor Benn and Eddie Hearn ran away with the story of a broken jaw. There's no broken jaw here. We are strong. Our bones are dense. When you're in a fight like that, you have to go to hospital. You have to get tested and looked after."

The Spurs stadium has already been booked for September for a potential rematch, but Eubank Jr revealed he may have other options - including Canelo Alvarez. " is a very beautiful industry where anything can happen," he added. "The possibilities are endless. If the rematch is meant to be, it will be.

"And if not, guess what? There are plenty of other amazing fights to be had. And great things for me to achieve in the sport. So I'm happy either way. [The Canelo fight] is another stadium filler, absolutely.

"Wembley, Tottenham, any one of the large football stadiums in the UK will be filled for a fight like that. He is an opponent I've been looking at for many years now. And the fans would love to see that. So 100 per cent that's a name in my line of sight. And we will be doing whatever we can to secure that fight in the future."

Eubank Jr was reunited with his dad in the hours before the fight and Chris Sr claimed he feared for his son's health after the final bell. “We were in the ambulance, the sirens, the horns are, beeping the chaos," Eubank Sr said on his show. “My son Junior is very proud. His looks like a blown up football almost twice the size and he'll never let you see that because he's proud

“People don't know but my son is touch and go and the only way we're going to know whether he's going to be okay is after the CT scans. He suffered mostly in the hospital because of dehydration even though the beating was severe and that's why he was in such discomfort for 24, 30 hours. I don't want my son to have to go through that again. He doesn't know that his life was in the balance neither does he care.”