Surreal. Adam Booth talking like he's just seen Sugar Ray Robinson against Joey Maxim. Credit to Benn for doing so well against the bigger man? How about credit to Eubank for beating a drug cheat while being dehydrated? Sonny Edwards should have been calling the fight. It was refreshing to hear an honest opinion for once.
Many of us on here have been attempting to help the less wise men on here by highlighting the difference between an elite fighter (eg Usyk and Canelo) and a Paper World Champion (eg Joshua and Bellew), a real Box Office event (eg Fury v Usyk) and a loot accumulation scam (eg Bellew v Haye twice) plus all other garbage spin and lies spouted by Hearn. At last we are de mugging the mugged.
Not denying Benn's heart or fitness, but he's so wild. He will get exposed if he comes up against a prime word class operator.
I thought my stream was dodgy last night during this! True Geordie has sold out to DAZN his commentary last night was the worst I’ve ever heard. Any time Benn landed on eubanks glove he was screaming “he’s got him, eubanks badly hurt etc”. Worse than Bellew
Good Morning All. Hope everyone is enjoying breakfast, cornflakes for me. No doubt a huge slice of humble pie with a side serving of Egg for team Benn. Beautiful
Mr Eddie Hearn has crowned Connor Benn 'The People's Champion' This statement must be right up there with Starmer's 'We Will Smash The Gangs'
Jr worked off the jab and landed clean time and again. Benn always throws wild winging shots, I think even Hearn and Benn's team and fans watching it again can really have no complaints he got outboxed and all the stats not just the eye test at the time make that clear.
Thats neither here nor there though. He wasnt friends with them to commit crimes but get the social clout.
For everything you say above, I preferred Eubank over Benn when they fought, but enjoyed both of them greatly. Competely different styles and people - I disliked Benn the person but you knew you would be entertained. Eubank was sometimes a hard watch post-Watson, grinding out 12 rounds on points, but you knew you'd be entertained by the event. There were far better boxers in their weight classes and their careers were brilliant promotion of UK fighters in the terrestrial TV heyday, where ITV would accept WBO title fights as world ranked events. But what an era it was.
You could say that but then you could also suggest that his punching was so ‘perfect’ that he was never able to be fluid IE punching on the move or following missed/blocked ‘perfect’ punches with more punches. That was his downfall, so he could be outdone with a lot of movement one way or another.