‘Be the best, just not the best of the best, because that is a suicide mission. I was a world champion in my own right, just like Toney and Jones...
Eubank is referring to potential permanent damage being sustained when very physically dynamic world champions face each other (ie Benn-McClellan)...
Olajide was meant to be the next star of boxing after Leonard. Michael Jackson lookalike etc. He had talent. Barkley put the fear of god in him...
Well I don’t know, Kalambay beat him fair and square. Yes Herol adopted the wrong tactics to please Eastwood but whatever, he lost clearly (to a...
He was young and brash. Benn humbled him
At the McCallum-Collins fight in Boston, Eubank told Ron Borges he’d beat McCallum in five rounds and Collins in two! He went to Bob Arum there...
He fought who’d face him, and that wasn’t McCallum. That was Benn. And he won. Eubank thought McCallum was an easy win earlier in 1990 - in...
In London it wouldn’t of sold-out probably. Maybe Birmingham with Rob McCracken on the undercard then
He was predicted to beat McCallum, strangely, in ring magazine. Like without question. Heck he was predicted to beat Nunn. Olympic gold medalist....
He also stepped in v Calzaghe at very short notice. Nobody else would Arum didn’t have options on him following the Benn win, such was his...
Eubanks opp was quite strong really. Tony Thornton was ranked #1 in WBO/WBA and #1 in IBF right after. Lindell Holmes was one of those avoided...
Yeah Eubank certainly wasn’t in his comfort zone in the South Bronx! He faced Mark Breland at late notice when nobody else would, starving himself...
Definitely not a big puncher by any stretch, Collins. Awkward style though, he’d land in a way that was ugly but sneaky.
Eubank left to face unbeaten Rocchigiani IN GERMANY (when it was still notorious for robberies). Madness.
WBA, WBO, IBF, WBC; they’re all as bad as eachother
