Groves Eubank post fight thoughts

so basically he almost won if everything was completely different!!
also i doubt anyone will ever stop eubank

 

No one will ever stop Eubank, I've been saying this for ages, I identified immediately after the O'Sullivan fight that he had a cast iron chin. He did suffer one legitimate KD yesterday largely due to his lack of balance but he was clearly hit on his way down so it was a KD missed by the ref.

 

I agree. Tactically it was the right thing to do but the ref should have stopped the excessive wrestling to stop Eubank's inside fighting.

 

What did you want Groves to do?

If you were his trainer what tactics would you have asked him to carry out?


Surely you'd ask Groves in a fight like that to just Box, embarrass Jr, make it an easy night, take away the opponents best assets and show his skills?

Or would you have asked Groves to go out, load up, fight and brawl, take unnecessary risks?

 

Groves fought the perfect fight to get the win
Why would you do anything else?
He has the better ring smarts to be able to execute the game plan
Jr looked lost and never once troubled groves

 

And he won, comfortably. Not everyone will just stand with a high guard in the pocket like Yildrim. Boring or not, that was Eubank's job to use his 'superior' fitness & intensity, he just wasn't good enough.

And it was hardly jab & grab, he landed the cleaner counters & shots generally.

What do you want, fighters to fight to opponents strengths ?

 

Groves bossed the fight off the ropes and had the cleaner work on the inside also.

Eubank and his team literally had no idea what to do

 

groves hurt jnr on multiple occasions so it definitely wasn't a jab and grab show. I reckon there was a good chance jnr could have been knocked out in the 12th if the shoulder didn't go.

what impressed me most about groves performance was how he weathered the storm (though most punches were missing) in the 12th with one arm and then finished the last exchange on top by hurting jnr with I think a right uppercut.

 

Sorry but ... no.

Despite all his flaws and failings Junior's crudeness is dangerous especially when he becomes reckless.

Rooting for Groves yesterday but I am not a Groves fan. George did the right thing, it was a good and watchable fight with a dramatic ending. If anybody is to blame it's junior, senior and their whole corner.

 

Absolutely spot on, a great post.

 

It was the little subtleties in Groves’s approach that i enjoyed last night. He was throwing feints all night long, setting traps for Eubank to fall in so he could land that right hand. To Eubank’s credit, he didn’t fall for it much but the feints did make him reluctant to lunge forwards. Groves circled him really well too, Eubank’s feet are poor and he couldn’t set himself. BJS did exactly the same. He tied Eubank up really well, and actually landed some nice shots himself on the inside.

This wasn’t close at all, Len. They are levels apart. I agree with @N17 , imo Eubank went down twice.

I can now actually enjoy watching Junior now that the hype as been blown away. Much the same way I really enjoy watching Spike. If he’s matched well, he is an absolute joy to watch. With a stylistically suited opponent, he is entertainment personified. I want to see him in with the likes of Ryder, Cox, Lemieux, Spike (again) etc. He can have a great career & maybe pick up a title somewhere. He would slaughter Truax but he doesn’t deserve that shot, not yet anyway. Fight in the summer & again in November and finish the year on a positive.