Can you name 15 MW champions you would strongly favour to beat Chris Eubank?

Conn is honestly the only non champion on the list. I don't think the 'colored' belts are any less legitimate than the abc belts.

 

I don't think I can pick 15 to strongly beat him @ middleweight...I know he had some stinker performances...but the fighter that beat Benn and Watson at the weight would be a force to deal overall. Size, strength, footwork, chin, jab (when he chose to use it)
Addendum: To elaborate a little more, Eubank doesn't have the resume to back too lofty a rating...But the eye test for me... Eubank passes. Eubank has a strange style that is very difficult to read...he has no patterns. He engages, retreats, to break offensive rhythms...He ambushes, uses the jab, boxes off the front or back foot. Given this...and add some one punch power to hurt anyone at the weight...I don't think this guy is a gimme for anybody. Any middleweight would have to respect him...and if you respect him, he can then play his back and forth games. I think Eubank is a tough out, even for the elite.

 

Both Griffith and Valdez beat Eubank.

 

You're probably right. McGrain is too clever for such a ploy. Two clevver by half.

 

No I can't.

Southpaws Marvin Hagler, Herol Graham, Michael Nunn and Reggie Johnson I would strongly favour to beat him widely on points.

Carlos Monzon would have trouble with Eubank's jab slips, reaching right to the body and reflexes.

Thomas Hearns I would strongly favour to win if it went to points, due to his jab coming from the hip making it nearly unslippable.

I see McCallum really struggling with Eubank's movement, size and youth.

Kalambay led with the jab and Eubank was a freaky jab-slipper. He'd struggle.

Bennie Briscoe would be nicely outboxed for four or five rounds but could outwork him down the stretch?

LaMotta might be too busy. Robinson I don't think was big or strong enough.

 

I thought Michael Watson beat him at middleweight, but was robbed.

I'd also strongly favour :

Herol Graham
Mike McCallum
Sumbu Kalambay
Michael Nunn
James Toney

(So that's 5 or 6 already, not even straying away from 1990-'91, Eubank's era)

Okay, this is easy.

Marvin Hagler
Carlos Monzon
Ezzard Charles
Mickey Walker
Harry Greb
Sugar Ray Robinson
Holman Williams
Freddie Steele
Fred Apostoli
Marcel Cerdan
Roy Jones Jr.
Bernard Hopkins

etc. etc. etc.


Eubank was good, but in truth, the British trio of himself, Benn and Watson, made up a second-tier of middleweights at that time.
Graham was better than all three, at 160.
And even he came up short against the division's best.

Comparing Eubank against the greats of all-time is nonsense, imo.

 

I listed 15 men. More actually.

I assume the best 160 version of those fighters against the best 160 version of Eubank, so I'm not interested in "could he", remote possibilities, or "the right circumstances" or those times that Harry Greb didn't fight so great.
Prime v prime.

I think I partook in the discussion susbtantially with that post, tbh.
18 names, and some commentary.

Good thread. :good

 

Eubank fought only 2 middleweights of note.
Neither of whom were the #1 in the world, and probably not top 5 at the time, or barely.
I think he lost to Watson at 160.
His win over Benn was good. (Benn had previously been stopped by Watson, who in turn was beaten by Mike McCallum, one of the ACTUAL elite middles of the time).

There's not much grounds for me envisioning him beating anyone who was #1 middleweight in the world, or taking part in 3 or 6 fight series with them.
I'd strongly favour such a fighter.


Chris Eubank would have his hands full with a prime Tony Sibson. And that's no knock on Eubank, since Sibson was certainly the #1 middleweight in Britain at one time too.