https://imgur.com/gallery/gWL5LMQ My breakdown on the best British brawl in history. Hope you enjoy it.
Two warriors of the kingdom of Great Britain going toe to toe with granite jaws and wills of iron. This is how it should be.
One of my favourite fights. @escudo, nice piece mate, well put together, I really enjoyed that. Err just Like to add, that little clip of them standing together getting instructions from Richard Steele, well if Benn was that close to me and looking at me like that.. I think I would have just fainted LOL
What. A. Fight. I was fully in the Eubank camp for this... I think it was the rebelliousness of youth, supporting the guy the world loved to hate. But looking back my admiration for Benn is greater than that of Eubank, mainly because I now understand how stacked the odds were against him during his career. In reality, Benn was a small middleweight with a brawling style reliant on the savage power in both hands. And yet most of his peak career was at 168 where that power was diminished and bigger, stronger men wore him down, in fights and over the years. But that division were where the money was at, so he traded his trump card - power - for pound notes. So okay, this fight was at 160 as was his loss to Watson but I do wonder what he would have achieved at middleweight had he stayed there and grown into the division with his man strength. But as I say, what a fight.... no faked hype and you can see the reality of their mutual contempt, starting at the first bell as they meant to go on, with a savage, brutal war. Thanks for the break-down... as informative as always....
I was and still am a huge Benn fan (Not Of Conor's though LOL), I actually really liked Eubanks too at the time. What is sometimes forgotten is back then it was morning/lunchtime weigh ins and Benn was reportedly 6-8lb overweight the morning of the fight. I don't know if that made a difference, we will never know but Benn shifted at least 6lbs the morning of the fight and still managed to put in that performance, incredible really. Eubanks too had a great/savage performance in the Watson 1 fight after struggling to make weight, in his autobiography he says he was so dehydrated that his eyes were red raw, it hurt to blink and after the weigh in and they went backstage he had to get Ronnie Davies to hold him upright and pick up his sports bag because he had absolutely zero energy and felt like he was going to collapse. That's why after Watson 1 Eubank stepped straight up and the second fight was at 168. Both great fighters and genuinely tough men, British boxing legends.
I wish more of these great 168'ers from that era got together from both sides of the pond. Benn-McClellan was an electric fight, terrible condition for Gerald not withstanding. Would have loved to see Eubank face Toney. What a beautiful counter right fest it could have been.
Eubank vs Toney would have a been a tense staring contest with outbursts. Toney vs Benn would have an all out war. I'd favor Toney over both TBH but what fights they could have been.
