Dubai: Family mourns boxer found dead on beach

Dubai - He was due to turn 30 years old next week.

The family of former British boxing champion Christopher Eubank has expressed shock and grief at the passing of his boxer son, Sebastian, in Dubai.

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Sebastian Eubank was reportedly found dead on a Dubai beach, just days before he was to turn 30 years old. He had also recently become a father for the first time.

Known to his circle as 'Seb', the 29-year-old had followed his father Chris Eubank, a former world super middleweight champion, as well as his elder brother Chris Eubank Jr, into the world of boxing.

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Sebastian had also dabbled in mixed martial arts (MMA) and had won a debut at the UAE Warriors event held in Abu Dhabi last year.

His brother Chris Eubank Jr took to Twitter to mourn his loss in a series of tweets.

“Rest easy little brother. I love you & you will be missed always @SebEubank,” he tweeted.

“My brother Sebastian Eubank was a special man… a righteous man… who always put others before himself. A man of many talents, boxing, MMA, poetry, music, coaching, cooking the list goes on but the most important thing to him was helping others less fortunate than himself (sic),” he wrote in another tweet.