how good was chris eubank?

Anyhoo, I didn't mean this to be a career assassination attempt. Just making a general point....;O)

 

He was a horrifically one-dimensional fighter who was too reliant on his opponent having one or two specific styles.

 

When it really mattered, Chris Eubank found a way to win. All that matters is that he won his fight fight with Nigel Benn, that fight alone cemented him in history and has emortalized "Him" for however long boxing survives on this planet.

Chris Eubank had to win that fight with Nigel Benn, everything esle that happened after that point.

"Was just a blur"

The opening titles to this documentary sums it all up.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zescZW7a99E[/ame]

 

Gaz, in all of the Burns madness that has ensued this past week I forgot about this cheeky wee post I slipped in until I checked my archive just there, & its nice to see someone 'got' it!

All joking aside, Eubank was a helluva fighter, & a helluva man. My first boxing hero, & I have probably told the story here before, when Collins beat him I stormed out of the pub & went home to bed in disgust, such was the pull of the man! Pathetic on my part, but true all the same.

Some poster summed up Eubank perfectly recently on brit ESB when he said something along the lines of 'Eubank was a great slugger, but his problem was that he tried to adapt his style to his thinking man image... or words to that effect.
I talked recently about that fight he had with Joe Calzaghe, how a weight drained Eubank gave him hell. IMO it showed that calzaghe showed the potential that was to make him the fighter he was, but my pal answered, "To me, a past it Eubank exposed Calzaghe for what he was"

& its had my mind ticking ever since. cos a past it weight drained Eubank was good enough to give Joe Calzaghe his toughest ever fight...

 

Damn straight, everyone knows Michael Watson had that same face first brawling style of Middleweight Nigel Benn...atsch

Are you that The Ring writer, who called a 93 fantasy Jones/Eubank clash as KO1 Jones?

 

Me, atberry and Mandanda were discussing this a while back. And the consensus among us was Eubank's skillset was generally underrated.

 

Eubank was very good at certain things. He'd certainly be in the final of the super six against Ward. He wasn't as good when he had to force the fight though. He tended to overbalance and look scrappy.

 

Yes, the Eubank fight exposed Calzaghe as a fabulously talented future ATG, blessed with incredible speed of hand and foot, mental fortitude, durability and conditioning. A true eye opener.

 

He blatantly should have lost the first fight against Watson - I scored it....actually I can't remember what I scored it, it's archived around here somewhere.

And, just to be a ****, if Amaral can stun Eubank and force him to clinch for 30 seconds (round 7, right hand), I'm pretty sure Jones could get to Eubank early and stop him within 1 round. You seem to be one of the imbeciles that think that a first round defeat is the most definitive defeat there is.

 

Considering Jones himself admitted Eubank was the one fighter who'd give him problems and be concerned about fighting, you're more confident than he was of a one-round KO over him.

 

I said that he could, not that he would.

Better fighters than Eubank got caught early by Jones. On the other hand, Griffin, who was similar to Eubank, gave Jones problems in the first fight.

 

Depends on the fighters.

If I were to step in the ring and Vitali Klitschko beat me (no matter how bad) after the first round, something is wrong...

But for example, Chavez's 11 round beating of Rosario, looks better on his resume, than him catching Rosario early, and finishing him inside three minutes.

 

He was a very good fighter, I grew up watching him, was always a fan of him, even in the early days when people disliked him, that said, I do kind of get the impression he gets overrated by some Brits.

Eubank was a solid champion, rather than an exceptional fighter, he wasn't on the level of a Toney, Jones imo, infact I personally think he would of hands his hands full with Reggie Johnson, Michael Nunn, let alone those guys.

I always say to myself, if there was one belt available, then what perception would we have of Eubank? That for me says a lot, that he was the best of the rest after you get past the exceptional fighters like Jones, Toney etc.

 

Have his hands full with Nunn is an understatement; tall, rangey southpaw with lightning speed of hand, foot and reflex as well as massive workrate and the most flowing fluid flurries of all time - he never tired and was never off-balance, never stopped moving, always super smooth, even used the ropes well for defence (!) and King of the left uppercut.

I think Nunn at his best beats anyone. He was atleast in the class of a fit Toney and peak Jones, if not a bit beyond.

Reggie Johnson was as slick as a greaseball in the early 90s, but Eubank had special ingredients that Reggie didn't have.