Chris Eubank Sr - Todays fighters can't compare

He has fought them, though. And that makes Eubank, who didn't fight the best of his day, sound quite silly when he talks about how tough things were "back in the day".

If there had been a super six in the late 80's early 90's I feel pretty certain that Eubank would have stayed the hell away from it, hanging on to his WBO belt, or what the hell it was.

 

Not as long as he was making big money fighting lesser fighters. If entering a super six was his only way to make big money he would of, of course.

But I think he would play it like Bute did, though. Sit it out and then make the seemingly lowest risk/biggest reward fight.

 

atberry your a good poster, but your blinded by your eubank bias, he was a great fighter but not nearly as great as youd have us believe!

 

Someone who really should get props here is Graham. Taking on Kalambay, McCallum and Jackson is not something most would do. A bit like the muderers' row of the 80's.

And Collins certainly learned his trade the hard way, fighting both McCallum and Kalambay on his way up. He probably figured Kalambay was past it and there for the taking, though.

 

Hmm wasn't Eubank making a shedload more per fight than Nunn and Toney? I thought he openly said he didn't want to face them and his promoter alluded to the fact that Chris never called himself the best in the world. Then there's the famous Toney trashtalking of Eubank and Benn and after the draw Eubank decided against facing the best Americans to focus on his bum of the month tour, which was admittedly lucrative

 

I don’t care how good a fighter is if any champion was offered the same ''£10 million for 10 fights in ten months'' deal (knowing he could select the lower echelons of a four fold diluted top ten) they would take it!

under that schedule Eubank lost ground as a fighter but he earned well. As historians we all want the best to fight the best but the truth is its a business. All fighters will take 2 easy fights over one hard one for the same money. Its a no brainer. name one manager or self managed champion who seeks harder fights for less money?

mega fights take a lot of organising and come with huge compromise. should we blame fighters for taking short money low risk more often or big money and bigger risks less often? eubank was offered big bucks for low risk. who can blame him?

 

Calling people out doesn't mean allot when you don't try to make the fights and Eubank and his promoter never really reached out to do any deals. The fact is when the fights were available they were rejected in favour of the Sky bum of the month tour

Post retirement Benn said he'd have nightmares hitting Graham. Watch the 2 Malinga fights to get an idea of how badly bomber would have embarassed Benn