Chris Eubank Comments incl McCallum

I did get the feeling that Nunn would have been too slick and clever for Benn, even though I'm a massive Benn fan. He was too tall, had too much reach and would have picked him off coming in...but if Benn could close the distance it would have been his fight.

Eubank interviews were always brilliant, you really wanted to hear what he had to say, regardless of how outlandish it was, it was always gold.

 

I loved the Star test interview he did in '91. It's on youtube and worth watching.

 

Eubank is always brutally honest when interviewed, which is nice to see.

I do feel McCallum would of dominated him though.

 

I hardly think the Jackson performance is one to gauge any kind of vulnerability. In fact it was one of his most impressive showings. He really only showed vulnerabilities to the top boxer-movers for the most part. Graham was just about as awkward a fighter as could be faced for anyone, particularly a flat footed fighter like McCallum.

And Nunn looked quite **** against Barkley and the smaller, way past his best Curry.

 

Id also like to add that anyone can be made to look poor if you make them chase you, but look how Graham paid the price for his movement, he became tired and had to bang it out with McCallum down the stretch because he was too tired to keep up the movement, that lost him the fight in the end imo, so "standing McCallum on his head for 6 rounds" did not amount to much because it ultimately slowed himself down for McCallum.

 

Watching now, I love Chris Eubank

There is something great about Eubank, the man is a real character. I wish he was on telly more often

 

Legend and a Gentleman!!

 

Yeah, but dominating Tate and an old, faded Roldan aren't really the best barometers for classing a fighter, are they? Nunn had some outstanding talent, but on the contrary I think he did show a lot of vulnerabilities. Not necessarily against the opposition he faced, but with his style in general. He threw some great combinations and at his best looked very fluid, but he always looked a straight shot away from a KO in my opinion. That chin pointing straight in the air with his hands down, the fact that he relied more on his reflexes than actual defensive technique. And boy could he run at times. He just seemed more of a ring general based on his physical attributes than his technical acumen and ring intelligence.

He was made to look like **** against smaller, faded versions of both Curry and Starling because his technique wasn't sound enough to penetrate their defenses or play ring general on them the way he was able to so many other less refined fighters. He looked pretty damn bad in each of his outings post-Kalambay and pre-Toney, IMO.

I for one don't put as much stock into the Kalambay win as some others. A great KO of course, but I tend it think it was one of the biggest freak occurences of the modern era. Nunn looked great for two full performances, the Tate fight being his best showing. After that he more or less faded out, so I don't see how his potential can be so clearly judged based on just two performances (one against an opponent ripe for the picking in an old Roldan).

 

hahaha funny how Eubank says Mike had no power

 

Kalambay was as sound a defensive technician as they came, and Nunn was no knockout artist. I find it very hard to believe that he would've been able to time and capitalize on such a technically sound and defensively tight fighter without a hint of luck. The shot looked more like your typical hail mary punch that you see thrown very often early in fights, the majority of which never come close to landing but are thrown more for the purpose of loosening up a bit and getting into the fight. This one just happened to land right down the pike on a fighter that more or less technically impeccable, leading me to believe it wasn't some masterfully worked out play that worked directly to his wishes.

Had he a history of one shot power or Kalambay a history of being tagged like that, I'd be a bit more inclined to hold it in higher regard. As it was, it just came off as one of those one-in-a-million shots. I doubt if they fought 10 more times they outcome would've ever even remotely resembled that one.