Chris Eubank Sr - Todays fighters can't compare

Some good points overall. Of course, in his time, the previous era of boxers said the same thing about his era.

I guess it's always going to happen.

 

Carl Froch does compare with Eubanks & Collins . All 3 and maybe Calzaghe as well were better than Benn who lost by stoppage almost every time he faced a name opponent , and was even given fits by Eubanks in their rematch and by old man Malinga . And how many times did i already mention that McClellan was just going 2 stop him but d ref robbed it from him ?
They (Froch , Collins , Eubanks and maybe Calzaghe) were also better than Watson whom was about Benn's level , maybe slightly better than him .
Eubanks would have probably "lost" by d same way 2 d men who "beat" Collins . Both of them rank very closely and r interchangeable .

 

BS. Froch has fought the best of his division something Eubank never did. Nunn, McCallum, Kalambay and Toney were all better than anyone he fought at MW IMO. As were of course RJJ at SMW.

Where as Froch has met everyone of note in his division. He's the example to follow rather than Eubank.

 

But then Collins gave Kalambay , McCallum , Reggie Johnson tough fights and Eubanks might have n argument 2 beating him at least 1ce . I do agree Froch's opposition was better than Eubanks' but was it better than Collins' ? and if Collins compares 2 him then so does Eubanks , and i don't mean Eubanks was better than Collins nor d opposite . Just that i think that they rank close . There may b merit in ranking Froch higher than both of them but does he deserve much higher ?

 

I concur. Eubank was very careful in who he fought overall.

 

I don't think Eubank can take credit for that Collins faced the guys he wouldn't face.

And even though Collins was extremly game against McCallum the fight wasn't by any means close. The only thing that kept it from being an outright schooling was that Collins pressed on despite the heavy punishment he got. Haven't seen his fight against Kalambay, but got the impression that Kalambay also won comfortably, despite his age at the time.

 

It was close , i watched it twice and Collins did not get heavy Punishment . 4 comparison and a measure , d younger (than Collins) Michael Watson got heavy punishment from McCallum , Julian Jackson got heavy punishment (not very) from McCallum , but not Collins who initially retreated and hence avoided most of d punishment and then pressed after weathering d not so heavy onslaught .

 

In my day...

 

Eubank's thinks he the Best, and he does'nt like that others are edging him now or then!

He knows he can "claim" dominance with respect to having fought and beat his great British foes, even though he wasn't the best among them. So he doesn't worry so much about the critics.

But the Best he was NOT!!!

He never talks about the past greats, NEVER!
and though I do understand that he's right about fighters NOT fighting or defending as often, he wins ZERO credibilty because he can't bring himself to honour others!

Every Boxing Historian & Serious Boxing Fan recognizes Better Era's one over another, but Eubank KNOWS that the average person doesn't know this, nor even care abouit it, so he goes on for himself, and because of this "only recent & present memory," he wins some supporters!

IF the man would acknowledge Past Greats, from the BEST Era's and then admit that his own was a Very Good third place Era for middleweights, I believe he would command more credibility.

He doesn't, He NEVER will, he's still easy to dislike...

Very good fighter, but thats the Best he gets!

 

I always love hearing Chris talk about the game even if I don't always agree with him, for all his swagger he's also very self deprecating.

 

Eubank is a joke, and not a funny one.

 

lol^