Unlike most professional boxers, Conor Benn grew up rich. The bulk of his childhood was spent in Mallorca, where he lived with his family in a gated, eight-bedroom mansion. “It was at the top of a hill overlooking the beach,” he says. “We had a massive pool. I had a Jacuzzi in my room and my own balcony with a view of the sea.” It was a gilded existence: wardrobes full of designer clothes, Porsches and Cadillacs on the driveway, blossom and eucalyptus on the breeze. “I lived a very blessed life but a very sheltered life. I thought living in a mansion was normal.”
The reason for all this was simple. His father was Nigel Benn, one of the most aggressive and, pound for
