https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/eubank-on-benn-hopkins-froch-hatton-hooks-weaves.652457/ I was taught by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans that the smaller and lesser the movement you use, the better. That goes for weaving as well as punching. When you first learn to weave, it's like you're drawing a long smile through the air with your head, but when you master it there is hardly any body motion to see. It's not moving as a pendulum, be it a vertical pendulum side to side like Mike Tyson or a horizontal pendulum up and down like Nigel Benn. Try to create circles with your weave. And as you become more skilled, the circles are becoming smaller and smaller. You're just dipping subtly. It takes years. There are fighters you might not have heard of - Wilfred Benitez, Wilfredo Gomez; search these gentlemen on YouTube to see them evade combinations and you might think the opponent, be it Thomas Hearns or whomever, is missing purposely! That's how good they are, that's top tier. Or me against Joe Calzaghe in about the second, third or fourth round when the pace slowed for a bit and a blistering cluster wouldn't touch me as I barely appear to move. My knees and reflexes had eroded, so I called on my experience from New York. Head movement is probably the greatest and most unique art of boxing. I've not seen it in any other fighting art. Not in wrestling/BJJ/judo, in muay thai/kickboxing, kung fu... So many of these arts are fantastic and creative at attacking, but none offer anything as beautiful as the art of head movement.
Nice that he gave a shout out to Benitez and Gomez. Both indeed had beautiful head movement in their primes.
Nice stuff, that. Whatever some of his other weaknesses - work rate, punching on the front foot etc - Eubank really understood acute upper body movement and positioning and incorporated it quite seamlessly into his game. Not surprised that he admires Gomez and Benitez really, there were shades of them in his style, albeit on a lower level. Napoles too imo. He had a great education on the way up.
