Eubank wasn't himself last night.

It was quite obvious Jr was simply afraid of Groves' power, which he remembered from their sparring sessions.

Simple as that.

 

Chris Eubank is brilliant on the back foot and he has guys walking towards him and he can tee off. When asked to chase somebody around the ring, especially a high level boxer, hes always came up short. Thats why he" bullies " these heavyweights in sparring, because he is brilliant when a target walks him down, he has no sense of how to close the range on a boxer. i picked him over Groves simply based on Groves fitness levels but last night Groves shown determination and will from round 8 onwards, hes learnt from his mistakes, last night Groves should be getting all the credit in the world for his fitness levels but instead its being overshadowed by Eubank losing.

 

You think Eubank is brilliant off the back foot ?

If true. He could have threw some bait out there, some pawing jabs whilst backing up & drew Groves in to counter. Why didn't he ? You don't have to go chasing, unless that is how you believe you will win the fight. If Eubank had the ability to box off the back foot & beat Groves, there were techniques he could have used to at least attempt that.

I seen nothing to suggest he had the ability to anything different from what he tried, & he came up short. Big time !

 

dunno,,you expect a champion to be amply capable of fighting to the champinship rounds, Dago, as par de course.

 

always had **** footwork

 

i picked eurbank to win
i was wrong
we all know what groves brings to the table he is a tried and tested fighter

what happened is groves imposed his style/ way he wanted to fight and will to win on eubank and eubank did not have the adapdabilty i thought he would have to get to the inside where he wanted to be.

was not that eubank was off its throves fought smart and to a gameplan and eubank was not good enough to solve groves style out.

you have to be able to adapt when plan A fails when you want to be a top fighter

eubank never had a plan B or could not adjust and he lost .

not the end of the world / styles make fights and eubank is not comfertable with someone who is able to judge and keep a distance.

never new that before the fight / hindsight is a wonderful thing.

 

Everyone who doesn't have a jab will have an off night at some point.

 

Hypejob ATG.

 

eubank was awful. He caught groves ONCE properly, a wild lucky punch, thats all...and he couldnt reap the reward from 2G staggering.

Landed a few minor stunblows on top of that but no nothing else.

 

in fact eubank broke groves totally down in an old school boxing match with more than 12 rounds groves was getting starched

 

I suspect this is more of a troll thread but I'll bite.

It was painfully obvious in the first round that CEJ didn't have the skill set to get inside, or do any damage from the outside. There was a vast difference in boxing IQ in the ring and GG didn't have any trouble deciding where the fight was to take place..

Senior told Junior to get inside and beat him up as this was their only chance but again with out the tools to do this against elite fighters he resorted to bum rushing and throwing wild bombs...

He looked bad not because he had an off night but because he isn't at the level GG is at...

 

Cracks me up whenever the popular option suddenly has an off night when the opponent has been underestimated, especially when the fight played out close to how I expected.

I am very very interested to see what happens on March 3rd.

 

They didnt drug test Groves probably, Eubank was VADA and USADA tested all year round, Groves benefits from Privilege.

 

A good, solid pressure fighter would've picked his gloves up and stepped into the medium ground instead of flitting about on the edge of punching range with a low left hand and intermittently leaping in all night. I figured his camp would actually undertake the correct technical and tactical preparation for this fight, given the importance of the occasion. He was thrown in deep 3 or so years back when he fought BJS, but it's not as if he hasn't had some experience of world level fighting by now. Raw will and some commendable toughness aside, that performance was woeful. Yet and still, he managed to score 111-112 points for himself, which speaks to where George Groves is at these days.