Was Chris Eubank, Michael Watson, Nigel Benn and Steve Collins the 90s version of The Four Kings?

No because they never the best in their weightclasses.

 

They are a decided step down from the originals. Still very good and very entertaining but not crossover superstars the way the 80's guys were.

 

Not even remotely but respect to them regardless.

 

I'm a massive fan of both Collins and Benn but there absolutely not close to the original group

 

Yep, agree with John here, whilst not on the same level as such but still got tons of respect for em.

 

The big thing was they fought each other. Often multiple times. The big 4 just did not ever have the rematches we the boxing fans wanted. And it always seemed to take forever to even put the big fights together, unlike their uk counterparts.

 

If we're simply talking about British fighters, then maybe. If we're talking about the Middleweight and Super-Middleweight divisions as a whole, then no.

 

In certain eras, The British Championship at middleweight and SMW has often been “world contender level”.

I regard the Benn Eubank Watson era as being for the British championship in all but name. No matter that Benn had a WBC belt and Eubank had the WBO belt…the real world champions were Micheal Nunn, James Toney and Roy Jones.

So the rivalry was only ever over who was the best in the UK.

whilst the Ring Magazine had both the middleweight and SMW titles listed vacant during the entire times either Benn and Eubank held belts, if memory serves, the Ring never rated either of them any higher than number 3 in the world. which was about right.

But the rivalry was good. High profile. Good quality. They certainly made World Championship money out of it.

 

I get what your saying. I suppose you could look at it that way yeah. Not in terms of greatness or anything but the key concept is there.

 

collins who comes out on top in the head to head bouts, wasn’t a brit was he?

 

No it was the 80s/90s version of Benn, Eubank and Watson.

 

Oh and Collins. He didn’t fight Watson though and only fought a ghost of Benn.