Im not picking on you or your post...but rather on the media thing about eubanks snr...being weird...I never got it....he was a maverick...yes he spoke like rowan atkinson and his idea of entertainment was the 2 ronnies...he wore jodhpurs and a monocle..he was educated and polite outside the ring..and extrovert in his ring entrances....but I never found him weird...I think certainly someone like Nigel Benn a more typically ccockney london type played a lot on class and accused eubanks of pretending to be upper class.....I found this accusation...cheap,crass and deeply offensive...a lot of low rent media writers of the more unsophisticated times adopted benn"s uneducated jeering and sneering attitude...Eubanks snr was as genuine a man in all of Britain.....years later in the Thompson wars theyd see the same character of the man as they saw against benn 1 and watson 2
They weren't as big a names because they didn't get the big fights with Hearns and Duran or Mugabi/Julian Jackson like the others or had Hagler as a half-brother! But Essett and Thornton both drew with DeWitt, in fact Thornton looked robbed against DeWitt (and robbed against Collins for that matter, arguably), Essett beat Sims. Thornton did far better against Toney than Barkley did. Lindell Holmes outboxed a weight-strong Frank Tate, and Mike Nunn was considered the God of boxing when he did the same to a weight-weak Tate. Holmes stopped Sanderline Williams for the only time in his career, Willams looked unlucky against Barkley, Toney and even Benn himself.
ill educated? Hamed ws putting on an act, he addmitted that in an interview years after his career ended, he was trying to sell tickets.
He was a little ****, it wasn't an act, he was an obnoxious twat that had run ins with other boxers an was detested. He ridiculed over matched opponents mercilessly.
So? He was brought up on Upstairs, Downstairs. His parents spoke Jamaican but loved those programmes and English gentistry. Eubank's idol was Terry-Thomas, that ole cad bit. He was speaking like that when he was a child, he loved it. He played chess with staff at a care home in North Wales he was in, he was unlike the others. He broke moulds.
Quite the contrary. He didn't let ego get in the way of principle. Eddie swindled them out of it by not budging on his stance that the promoter receives more than the fighter.
"First dollar should drop in to jnr's pocket" Never ever has he been bothered before or since, it's not his position, Brook had the same deal and 2 weights smaller. Everybody else is happy about the deal in Boxing as long as they get their dough, Snr didn't want jnr taking that fight quite clearly
Eubanks stance is that the first pound/dollar that drops must be for the fighter. Which meant if a PPV sold 500,000 from a projected 750,000, Sky had to pay the fighter 375,000 and leave the promoter with 125,000! Or if it sold 800,000, Sky paid 400,000 each. That's why GGG fell through. Sky wouldn't guarantee a figure so Eddie couldn't agree
It's how he was supposedly stung by Barry when the Godoy and Barratubena fights didn't make money and Eubank only received a portion of what he expected from Sky (contract broke due to losing title so they weren't obliged) and Bazza wouldn't make up the difference with gate receipts. Or something along those lines, Sky maybe not paying Eubank direct anymore and Barry splitting the gate receipts in his favour instead of Eubank being guaranteed a certain amount. Eubank had budgeted his spending or predicted his financial profit margins as if he'd receive significantly more money in that time ie signing to have 69 apartments for the homeless built with £2mill of his own cash, bulk-booking the most expensive hotel suites in London, Paris and New York for three years straight, bulk-booking his personal drivers and private jets for three years straight, bulk-booking weekly Manchester to Gatwick flights for his barber for five years straight, etc.
He also wasn't going to lower his standard of living - never wearing the same pair of socks, underpants, vest or long johns twice. Never wearing the same pair of boxing boots or same training gear twice. New shoes every seven to 10 days. Etc