Chris Eubank Sr - Todays fighters can't compare

wasn’t arum thinking Eubank would be a harder sell in America - I don’t think he was talking about crossing the pond with any champion he controlled. for a WBO belt?

By 1992 Eubank had been in some lousy international fights. sherry, esset, thornton, giminez were not sensational. The Benn, Watson thing was considered strictly domestic by international standard. Money wise those watson and benn fights were big in one part of the world but to the rest of the world they were British title fights in all but name.

 

Agreed:good

Eubank set the bar for cherrypicking long before Calzaghe, in fact he was worse because there were plenty he coulda fought yet didnt. His attempt to portray himself as some kind of throwback for fighting every 2 months was nothing to do with heroic gallentry and everything to with money. Eubanks mantra, especially when he got his,i think, £10mill-10 fight deal with Sky (a cashcow, if you will), was to 'line them up and i'll fight them' regardless of their credentials. Of course 1 or 2 slipped through the net. That is not to say he wasnt talented, he was. Indeed he was arguabley the most talented outta all the Brit boxers mentioned, but he hasnt my respect the same way as Froch, who is more of a throwback nomatter what way Eubank tries to dice it


Also, i believe the 2nd Watson fight took something away from Eubank

 

Yet he fought that 'stepping stone' to a draw less than 8 months after the Holmes fight.

Christ, he was even lucky getting a draw against ray close in his fight directly after Holmes, nevermind wanting to fight Nunn and Toney

Talk is cheap mate. He coulda called out Riddick Bowe then too, cos there was as much chance of them meeting as there was of him meeting Nunn and Toney

 

I read n interview with Eubanks where he told about a sparing session with Graham in which he had a very hard time until catching him . he compared him with Nunn and said Nunn was very similar but much taller and that sparing session convinced him he wanted nothing 2do with Nunn .

 

What? I watched it last night and it was about as "close" as his loss to McCallum. Just goes to show you should never take fighters seriously about things like this.

 

Yeah, it's quite understandable. But what he shouldn't is to put himself out like some sort of Greb figure 20 years later when he clearly wasn't. If he was he would have fought the likes of McCallum and Kalambay (who of course would have loved the chance to make that kind of money), but I would be surprised if the thought even crossed his mind.

 

Lots of talk and little action for such an industrious guy. He'd probably been undisputed champ at MW, SMW and LHW if anyone had just dared to fight him.

 

Have anything to verify that with?

 

Jesus.