I saw this guys career like it was my own, and many other boxing experts did also, and we agree he began to hold back the bullets when he had guys hurt. The killer went. That cost him.
He had Joe Calzaghe dazed and almost out in the last round of there fight.. He could of just stepped back, and smacked Calzaghe with a uppercut. Joe Calzaghe was just leaning against Eubank, not even clinching..just leaning because he was ****ed. But he just stood there, it was almost as if... He knew it was Calzaghe's time...!
He had Carl Thompson out on his feet in their first fight. He visibly stopped punching him and Thompson recovered and got back into the fight. Why he did this only Eubank will know.
The John Jarvis knockout is one I still remembered all these years later, in exact detail. Great to see it again. But I do still feel despite Chris's words that he did seem to fight a bit within himself after Watson II. Even if it's not something he consciously felt, some times it did seem that way. Although this is a quote that deserves to be framed on a wall somewhere: