When was Eubank hurt?

I seem to think he got up when the count reached about 5, I thought Eubank had had it as I thought he was already behind on the scorecards plus that knock down and it being the 11th round of 12.
Great fights involving Watson, Collins, Benn and Eubank in those days, unfortunately Calzaghe was born to late and missed the party apart from Eubank .
What a terrible sad thing happened to Michael Watson, cant even bring myself to watch it.

 

Watson knocked him down in the 11th round of their second fight, Watson was winning on every scorecard.
Calzaghe knocked him down with a flash knockdown in the 1st round of their fight.
Steve Collins knocked Eubank down in the 8th round of their first fight, the one where Collins was said to have played mind games on Eubank.
Apart from those three I can only remember 8 counts were Eubank claimed he slipped, one against Calzaghe in one of the later rounds of their fight and one against Benn in their first meeting.
Eubank had a granite chin.

 

That is the way I remember it too, Eubank was very lucky in a boxing sense that night, not so lucky what happened to his opponent, but as regards just boxing, Eubank was lucky to win that fight.

 

True, it was fate.

 

Damn. If only he hadn't messed up his hands.

 

I remember Benn saying exactly that - 'hitting Eubank on the head is like hitting a block of granite'

 

I agree, although I feel very sorry for Michael Watson being objective I thought that Watson was technically a better boxer than both Benn and Eubank he may not have been as tough in the ring or achieved as much as the other two but he was a more silly smooth operator than the other two and that night I thought Watson was like you say outstanding and had reached a level higher than I had seen from either Benn or Eubank but unfortunately he took that vicious upper cut and that was it.

 

It's straight from his own mouth (during the interviews or later, don't recall).
I remember it very well because Chris was quite candid to being the most hurt in his whole career, altough when you watch it did look more exhaustion than anything else.

 

I saw an interview where he said he wasn't far off being pulled out of the first Benn fight by his corner cos he had a huge gash inside his mouth and was literally glugging his own blood. If that counts as hurt.

 

Was indeed a great performance but surely the best single showing of those three had to be Benn V Mclellan. Superhuman almost.

 

He claims to being in agony beyond words against Watson in their 2nd fight. Not particularly hurt from the last punch before he fell to one knee, but had been seriously hurt for most of the fight because he says his adrenalin stopped running when he decided Watson was unbeatable that night and that he'd stay in there to take his beating!

It was accumulation and exhaustion as to why he collapsed to a knee in that fateful 11th round.


Against Benn in their 1st fight, he had a massive gash in his tongue and was swallowing pints of blood he says, and also had serious internal damage from the body shots that must've been hurtful during the fight too!


Seriously though, from a single shot he was only visibly hurt twice - against Johnny Melfah and Benn in their 2nd fight (leaping left hook in 10th), on those occasions his legs went slightly for a second or two. That was probably the most hurt he was!

Tuuuf ****er.

 

He stumbled slightly in the 1st Benn fight from a few mammoth rights, but that was more velocity of the blows I think.