Chris Eubank Jnr

Didn't know anything about this until I read this story in the sun




WALK into the Top Rank gym off the Las Vegas Strip and most days you will find Chris Eubank sweating through his tough training routine.

Very few in that busy fight-factory know who he is. So he can get on with his skipping, bag and pad work without being bothered.

But I’m told a number of fighters stopped their workouts last week to watch Eubank spar with Zab Judah, the flashy former world light-welter and welterweight champ.
It was such an impressive session a smattering of applause broke out at the end.

No, this is not a sensational story about Christopher Livingstone Eubank, the Brighton braggart, preparing for a comeback in his 40s.

This tale concerns Eubank’s teenage son Chris Jnr and how he came to be serving his boxing apprenticeship 6,000 miles from home.

Eubank, understandably, wasn’t overjoyed when his boy told him he wants to be a professional boxer.

In fact, he did everything he could to try to talk him out of it.

But the ambitious young man convinced him nothing was going to stop him following his father’s footsteps.

Eubank relented but only when they agreed to do it his way.

Chris Snr learned his trade in the 1980s in South Bronx, one of New York’s most deprived districts.

He turned pro at 19 and had the first four of his 52 fights in Atlantic City.

Eubank has always maintained it was his tough American upbringing that made him such a rugged and durable character.

He believes without that exacting experience he would not have been able to survive his 24 world championship battles.
Luxury

Eubank’s lad, by comparison, has grown up in middle-class luxury in the Hove family mansion.

And that’s why his dad emphasised, in the strongest terms, if Chris, 19, was hungry for success he must learn the hard way.

Together they turned up at Mike McCallum’s doorstep in Vegas.

The Jamaican-born McCallum was known as “The Bodysnatcher” when he held the world middleweight title because of his murderous body punching.

Mike told me: “It was over a year ago when Chris arrived to ask me to train his son, who was only 17.

“He made it clear he didn’t want me to do the boy any favours because we are friends.

“I was extremely flattered he asked me out of all the other trainers in the world.

“I also realised I was taking on a huge responsibility — looking after a lad whose parents were thousands of miles away.





“But everything has worked out perfectly. Chris Jnr is a delight and has made amazing improvements.

“I can assure you in a few years England is going to have another world champ named Eubank.

“I go in the ring with him and he’s not only extremely skilful, he can also bang.”

Chris Jnr has had a handful of amateur bouts but has already won the Nevada State Golden Gloves at super-middleweight — his father’s best weight.

Eubank has entered the National Golden Gloves in Detroit but, even if he was to win that prestigious tournament, McCallum says he will not be turning pro for at least another 12 months.

Eubank Snr lives in Dubai and calls to check on his talented offspring’s progress.

I asked Mike if Jnr was a chip off the old block.

He laughed and said: “No way — he’s very quiet and very polite.”

I suppose that means if Chris does become a world champ, sadly, there will be no monocle, no jodhpurs and no gold-topped cane.






Will be interesting to see how this pans out. Anyone know if Benn has a son?

 

How do you know?

 

Hope the ***** gets KO'd now