Young CHRIS has improved massively since his first twelve round fight. I don’t think anyone with an ounce of objectivity would attempt to claim otherwise. Saunders on the other hand looked in far worse form and shape in his last fight than when he split the decision with Eubank No ones schooling anyone here let’s be real
Both Eubank and Saunders have improved as fighters since their fight. However if Saunders comes into the fight in shape as he did under Ingle in the Monroe and Lemieux fights then I would expect it to be a much more comfortable win for him in the rematch. I would favour Plant to be to slick for Eubank JR too. Eubank's best chance to become Champion is to fight a past it Dirrell, which is a fight I would heavily favour Eubank to win.
Honestly I have no.idea how people can say Eubank has improved from the Saunders fight. He is pretty much exactly the same fighter he was then.
How has he improved then? I'm happy to be shown I'm wrong as I actually like him and been to a fair few of his fights.
Good win for Eubank last night and I think it's fair to say he showed some slight improvements. It's also fair to say Degale is now shot to bits, and even more than I thought he was before the fight, so I'm not getting too carried away with Eubank either. If his goal is a world title then he should go after Anthony Dirrell. That would be his best chance of winning one out of all the current title holders at SMW and MW. He'd get schooled and/or beat up against: Smith, Canelo, Jacobs, Andrade. Plant would beat him, and that could even be a schooling as well maybe. He'd be more competitive against Ramirez but still probably lose to him as well. I think Zurdo is too big for him. I want him to fight Billy Joe Saunders next. A fully fit and focused Billy Joe Saunders takes him to school as well.
I’d confidently pick him against Saunders. Saunders rightfully gets credit for schooling Lemieux, this version of young CHRIS would walk through that guy in short order. Bjs has spoken of retiring, blows up horrendously and “failed a drug test” is now up at 168 through sheer laziness by the looks of things, a recipe for disaster against a relentless young war machine who lives in the gym. Saunders doesn’t have the huge size advantage over junior that groves did ... some twenty plus pounds on the night? And junior still basically retired George - he was a shell of a man against Callum smith. Saunders doesn’t have the engine to keep away for twelve, as he’s already shown in their first bout, except -luckily for Saunders -that was juniors first outing over championship distance
Aye Nicky from hemland good fighter Gave Smith hell was look to get that win imo I have friends who go out there meet up with the hemland foot ball fans Nicky is held in high regard by the lads over there
Drop down to MW. I'd even look at dragging Brook up for a payday if he fails in getting the Khan fight. Nothing against him but Eubank is a flawed fighter. I get the impression Senior has known this for some time and will continue to match him with caution.
Get him a tick over fight against someone to make him look good, get it on it free on a Saturday night to snare more casuals then get the Dirrell belt then rematch saunders
He has to move down to middleweight. If you couple his technical deficiencies and lack of footwork with the fact he is a small SM and not a huge banger, doesn't bode well. Look at the George Groves fight. He is a different animal at middleweight, he is huge at 160. I don't understand why he moved up in the first place and now it might be difficult for him to get back down, but if can he should. He was on a good run following the BJS fight and I think he would be a tough fight for anyone at middle.