Chris Eubank Sr - Todays fighters can't compare

Think your gettin mixed up mate. Eubank won the 2nd one quite handily

 

That's what i remembered as well, until i watched them again a couple of years ago when i scored all the controversial Eubank defences one after the other for the scorecard thread.

An epic feat for which i've never been given enough credit, incidentally.

Anyway, i thought Eubank took the first comfortably about 8-4.second fight was hard as hell to score and Don King was going comically mental after it:yep

 

You know what? Funny you should mention Don King going mental. I was in the ring at the end of the fight along with a few others who were doin the security, and when the decision was announced Don King started shouting and screaming. He walked over to me and a friend who was workin with me, shouting "this has got NOTHIN to do with me. NOTHIN to do with me!!". I remember seeing it on the tv cos i had it taped on VHS but im fked if i know what happened to it. Ive tried lookin on YOUTUBE but cant find it. Theres King, a guy wearing a tux (me) and my mate (big guy,white shirt, ginger hair). We both ended up gettin a case of Miller between us, in the VIP area afterwards and put it on Kings tab

 

:good

 

Quuuuuaaaaaaaaddddd

 

Easily equivalent to one of those Guinness book world records for some inane activity. :good

Back to back Eubank fights in and of itself is enough to merit applause.

 

Why? Mike McCallum was better than anybody Eubank beat, and Kalambay gave him a boxing lesson, which Eubank wouldn't have done in a million years. He also beat Steve Collins by a mile who beat Eubank twice. No, Nunn probably wouldn't have knocked Eubank out but Nunn at his best would have completely humiliated Eubank. Kalambay was also robbed blind against Kalule.

 

atberry...start...the..reactor

 

Kalambay's performances in McCallum I, Graham I, Barkley and even McCallum II were better than anything Eubank did.

One could say Kalambay wouldn't have been comfortably outboxed by Dan Schommer.

 

Schommer would've probably knocked Kalambay out in 60 seconds....that's the form book!

Kalambay and Eubank were polar opposites. SK being the consummate rythmic, upright, consistent, textbook move-jab-counter guy and CE being the awkward, low, stop-start, direction-changing, unpredictable/unreadable punching, physical phenom guy. CE had flashier hands and feet, SK made far less mistakes. It evens out. Eubank was certainly bigger, stronger, harder hitting, harder chinned, and heartier....

 

When Eubank was put down by Benn, Watson, Collins and Calzaghe he got straight back up and came firing right back. Kalambay was hit by a feather duster and was laid out. You have to say Eubank is the greater fighter of the two, though maybe that slippery old veteran Kalambay was better in terms of mistake-less pure boxing.

 

Whoever said Watson had success with the jab against Eubank obviously counts slipped punches as successful punches. Eubank had that knack of avoiding the jab by moving his head just a fraction of an inch, he really was the master at it.

I thought CE was more comfortably outboxing Watson for 5 rounds (160) than MM was. Though the CE-MW rematch saw MW throw 60-80 power shots per round from every angle to head and body, something I've yet to see another fighter repeat.