For my major project, some really awesome stuff he said to me, the guy is a top class Gentleman when I've finished writing the article, I'll post it on here so you all can read it, in a few weeks. Just a question for you fight fans - Do you feel Eubank's career could have gone on much much longer if there wasn't the tragic consequences of the Michael Watson fight? -
i don't know wether it would have lasted longer but that era of british super middles was excellent.eubank,benn,watson,wharton were all top drawer. eubank was a british boxing legend and his rivalry with benn is as big as british sport's ever had.he had an ego to match his titanium like chin and him and benn only agreed on one thing.that they'd fight. boxing misses eubank,thats for sure
Eubank is eccentric but, despite how some make him appear, isn't an pratt. Chris Eubank's final fight, the rematch against Carl Thompson, came 7 years after the tragic events that unfolded at White Hart Lane in the Watson re-match. So although you can say, and you would be correct in my opinion, that post-Watson Eubank's ability to finish a man off was effected, the Watson situation had no bearing on the length of his career.
:deal We've got some colourful charachters in boxing at the moment (some would argue that we always have) but Eubank was something completely different: an original. I wish that he had fought James Toney as the build-up would have been amazing.
he wouldn't go in to finish his oppo's off like he use to. something that other fighters spotted as well. I can't understand will the American's took the **** out of him
It would probably would've been much shorter. He was constantly talking about getting out of the game throughout 1991, before the Watson tragedy! Benn, Mugabi and Nunn were said to be the next three fights in one Hearn interview. Duran was also mentioned. As it happens, the tragic aftermath of Eubank-Watson II put everything on hold (and McClellan blew Mugabi out anyway).