Kell brook talking of coming back

Eubank Jnr has always been a proper pick and chooser. He’s never stepped up and boxed someone decent towards the tail end of his career. He was better under his old man earlier in his career. IBO is his level aka poor.

 

IBO level he gets to swim amongst the tiddlers

Casuals believe he is a champ and he earns

It's smart but if you know you know

 

Good post. The sad thing is and I don’t like to compare, but Snr (who I wasn’t massive fan of) had a similar belt back then at 160lbs to what the IBO is seen as now and boxed enough mediocre challengers. As you mentioned above, he was also earning. At least he was very active, had rivalries and fought Benn and Watson.

Eubank Jnr trained in Vegas under McCallum among other for years. What the hell was he doing pissing his career away. You are right, casuals think he’s a champion and he’s probably content with that. GGG would have hurt him and for all the talk, they knew it.

 

I think he can be against the right opponent better than IBO level but he doesn't seem to want to try too hard to prove it. So it looks like your correct.

 

Shame isn’t it? As a big boxing fan, like yourself, I’ve given this thought over time as we have all seen boxers with plenty of promise never step up or just plateaux at a lower level than us, the fans expect.

I think it’s down to maybe just one instance of them getting hurt in either sparring or in a fight and they just don’t fancy it anymore.

 

In the 90s, not being as close to boxing as I am now, even then I was thinking Eubank was kind of in a 2nd division fighting opponents tthat gave Sky a decent Saturday night show without too big an investment. Collins kind of broke the process.

The thing is, Eubank got a bit more brave towards the end with Calzaghe and the two Thompson fights - maybe not total jeopardy given their own careers at the time but Eubank was on the slide and still gave them a fight. Somehow you can't see Junior taking that path.

 

Been crap since the 6th round at Bramhall lane. Stay away anyway, i can’t take anymore of that voice.

 

He didn’t really want anything of a real career. Biggest conman in my lifetime. He’s had ample opportunity, had to fight Groves, so he ran away to survive and not shatter his ego and the charade of his career. If he gets splattered off Groves for going for it , the public know and he loses millions down the line. He was still dropped numerous times that didn’t count and still nearly kod when Groves had one arm. Degale was dead, everyone else was dead: he thought Liam was too small, couldn’t punch and wasn’t a risk.Blamed an elbow, when he was rocked to his boots from a straight right while he’s cowering in a corner. He won’t fight him again when he’s fit despite it being 1-1 and it taking him 10 yes 10 rounds to stop (on his feet) a massively overweight and drained 154er with 2/3 bad injuries. Eubank been 168 for years beforehand! How many legit title challenges has he rejected. The man is a complete and utter fraud.

The sad thing is many of the kowledgable on here have fell for it. Not just the divvies buying tickets to make it look like they have a life on instagram. It was obvious, I could see it from his first few fights on Boxnation.

 

Jurgen Klopp news today must be hurting bad for the red side of Liverpool.

Agree with your assesment of Eubanks Jnr who has made millions and millions simply through the sperm link to his father.

 

Not fussed mate. We’re not all as ******ed as that embarrassing nan on TalkSPORT. He’s a legend but it’s no surprise. Good luck to him been amazing for the club. Will have at least 3 more trophies by the end of the season too. Not many contenders to take over for me. Grew up with the 2 faves in centre mid for us and would love nothing more than to see either of them come and do well in the dig out but I think it’s far too soon for either. I’m in the tiny minority but give me Simeone any day. Winner who gets right up people’s noses.

One thing I will say is. It will be nice to not hear my own manager ***** about how many games we’re playing. ****ing embarrassing. Biggest stain on his reign for me was him forcing 5 subs a game and getting rid of cup replays through. Knocks me sick. Goes against everything sport should be. Far too much of an advantage to the bigger clubs with bigger squads.

 

Big loss to Liverpool and the EPL.

Inherited a pile of shyte and built his own team from bottom up unlike guys like Baldy Pep who inherit League Winning Sides while backed with Qatari Loot.

Legend as you say and any club would be proud to have him as manager.

 

It is surprising that people bought into him, maybe some of it was due to being fans to his old man. When he started he had that commendable training worth ethic. I remember him turning pro in Channel 5 and
cynically saying he wouldn’t do anything. Someone just cannot decide to become a boxer mid teens. It doesn’t work like that.

You say it was obvious, and I’m not digging, but nothing was more obvious to me than your man Smith having no success and being stopped mid rounds by Beterbiev a couple of weeks ago. People will always be biased towards their faves, we all do it.

 

He was very entertaining in those last 3 fights and especially in the Thompson ones where his workrate was high. I always thought due to that he should have boxed at 175lbs after the Benn draw, as he would have had more energy and performed better without draining himself to super middleweight. We would have seen a far better Eubank. We know why he didn’t though, he felt there was no one to make money with and had no natural rivals there.

 

Whatever you think of him personally Klopp and Liverpool was a one-off that just clicked. The next guy is on a hiding to nothing.

Klopp is a cyclical manager who can get blood and sweat out of a team for a season then it slumps again. He did it with Dortmund, ran out of energy himself and took time out. Liverpool knew exactly what they were getting and with fans that had got out of the habit of winning, it worked like a dream.

Wouldn't be remotely surprised to see him turn up for one last gig somewhere like Barcelona where they will take more risks recycling players over time to help Klopp's model out, and since they're underdogs again it just about fits; the fact he's building a house not too far away probably won't hurt.