What was the most he earned for a fight? His contract with sky might have made him more money than all the money he got for fights on ITV.
Eubank said recently that the Schommer fight proved he was right in calling boxing a mugs game. ‘He outboxed me for 12 rounds in South Africa, where I had a gigantic following, and punched my teeth down my throat. They gave me the decision because I pulled in the crowds and he didn’t. That’s why boxing’s a mugs game.’
We’ll never know. I’d like to of seen him fight 2-3x a year as a light heavy in his prime though, without the Watson tragedy having ever happened. But the only thing with that is he was more shorter and less rangy than light heavies back then. He was pretty much punch-perfect when he did his weight right v Rocchigiani and Wharton. And we know he could produce a perfect punch (that uppercut) even if down late and behind.
He was a nut job. That aside, a very good fighter with skill and a chin but didn't fight the best American fighters .. he would not have beaten Toney, Jones, Hopkins or Nunn ..