Eubank calling out America's Best in '93

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  1. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Jan 8th, '93 Boxing News



    'I want 10 fights this year. Maybe I won't get 10 fights this year, but if possible, I'd fight 10 fights.'


    'I want Michael Nunn and James Toney. I don't want Nigel Benn because I've already beaten him, he's already passed.

    'The mandatory challenger, Nardiello, and Toney and Nunn, I hope to fight before September! Then I'd consider Benn, if the money was good.'


    'I don't know if Toney can deal with movement and I don't know if Nunn can deal with strength, or great movement and great strength - it's not out of the question I can beat both this year.'


    On Iran Barkley or Victor Cordoba beating them:
    'I consider Nunn and Toney to be two of the most gifted stylists of the world, pound-for-pound. They win these fights.'


    On Lindell Holmes:
    'I understand that age is only a number. Going back three or four years, when Michael Watson was down to fight Mike McCallum, Michael himself along with the so-called experts used a shallow-minded philosophy that McCallum was 10 years older, and so he would beat him on youth. That's why McCallum was just stood in front of that night, like he was.

    'I'm preparing as hard as ever and I know Lindell Holmes won't lie down for me. He's had a good warm-up fight to get sharp again after inactivity and I can't afford to view his age as anything but a strength, if not just a number.'


    'I've done 10 fights in less than 12 months before now and that wasn't enough. I haven't been out of the gym for 10 years straight so it's not a problem to me like it would be for less commited fighters.

    'I've had hundreds of harder fights in the gym than all but two of my 34 professional fights.

    'A match with a James Toney or Michael Nunn would be a game of chess. A fight with Benn is another matter, because he punches like no other man. It took me 10 months to recover from that fight, (and) 10 months to recover from the Watson II fight, too.'




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  2. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    In the end he only fought 3 times in 93, atleast he had the right attitude.
    I believe fighters should fight more often, like 4/5 times a year.
     
  3. Axe

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    In the end he fought a bunch of bums, followed that up with Rocky and Benn, and was never really the same after Collins.
     
  4. Jack

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    Because Nunn and Toney back then could make 1/10th in America, than in Britain, right?

    Eubank was a huge star so it made financial sense for the fight to happen here.
     
  5. boxingscience

    boxingscience Boxing Addict Full Member

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    nice thoughts by eubank, and he does speak his mind, but this was far from reality. i remember when he said this, and i just laughed it off. not a chance he would of fought so often while also fighting the likes of toney and nunn.
     
  6. atberry

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOBs-e9DK-8[/ame]


    (3:56-4:21)
     
  7. Sweet Jones

    Sweet Jones Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol:
     
  8. boxingscience

    boxingscience Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i miss those eubank days.
     
  9. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    It's another one of those "look, so and so CALLED OUT so and so!!!", as if that means ****.

    Not that I'm saying Eubank ducked them, or that they ducked Eubank, but boxing fans have a ridiculous obsession with fighters calling out fighters. As if fights are made in interviews and articles and not with different people negotiating on how to split seven figures (or more).
     
  10. agentsmith

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    If Eubank meant what he said, that would make his career parallel Jones's even more. Before they got their nice deals with TV networks they were willing to fight the best guys, but after that they were quite contend to fight C grade fighters while collecting millions of pounds.
     
  11. atberry

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    Eubank originally said he wouldn't fight beyond the age of 25 and would fight Nunn in his last fight, going back abit.
     
  12. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Eubank in the first-ever edition of Boxing Monthly... interesting


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  13. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Thinking back to 1993... the super-middleweights...

    WBC- Benn, WBA- Nunn, IBF- Toney, WBO- Eubank

    Plus... Norris, McClellan and Jones Jr statedly coming up...


    Immense. Shame not many fights were made in the end.

    We did get Toney-Jones and Benn-McClellan, though.
     
  14. agentsmith

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    Muhammad Ali said a similar thing as well
     
  15. Thread Stealer

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    De La Hoya also, but said his cut off point was 30.

    Boxers say that **** but get hooked. I remember reading an article about the Ruelas brothers and that they've been doing well since retiring. One of them works out all the time, but says he never works out in a boxing gym, because that's all it would take for him to want to fight again.