Eubank-Watson II
Can't say I recall that KD.
Eubank beat better fighters than Calzaghe, but Calzaghe was the 100% world champion after beating Lacy and Kessler. Eubank only a 25% champ....
Wooah. Wait. Possibly he could've been, if he took Nunn after either Benn fight or nicked a decision against Toney after the Rocchigiani fight...
He certainly showed signs - stamps, infact - of true greatness in Benn I, Watson II fights. His win against Rocchigiani was excellent on all...
Eubank was very different. He didn't try to be historic in a sporting sense and by his own admission didn't even see boxing as a sport. There...
For the record, I scored Eubank-Collins I for Eubank, and it was Eubank who scored the one clean knockdown of the fight - also the one clean...
Collins would have been a tough fight for anybody at any point in his career. A truly tough throwback. He performed at a high level against...
Great see-saw wars. The Eubank ones for Brits were humungous. He also knocked out Robbie Sims for the first time in his career in his most...
They surely remember the Watson, Barkley and McClellan fights, maybe the DeWitt fight and hard to forget the Gent fight if seen. And they surely...
It would probably would've been much shorter. He was constantly talking about getting out of the game throughout 1991, before the Watson tragedy!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVLV88tqXo Benn's face, 5:10-5:20 Bloke had a wild animal inside. Poor sod.
Eubank looked the better boxer-puncher in each of those fights - sharper jab, nicer combos, and sneakier counters. But he could be out-worked.
Eubank had four fights that seemed genuinely level mathematically or one way or the other in a subjective sense. Watson I, Thornton, Benn II,...
Benn's face from 5:10 to 5:20 in that vid.. That man truly has such an inner beast in him, My-****ing-God....