Eubank Sr: I Don't See How Ward or Golovkin Can Beat My Son!

By Edward Chaykovsky

Chris Eubank Sr., father and trainer of IBO super middleweight world champion Chris Eubank Jr., can't see any way that his son can be defeated by the likes of WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders, IBO/WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward.

Last Saturday night in London, Eubank Jr. stopped once-beaten Renold Quinlan to capture the IBO super middleweight title.

“I’m a mathematician when it comes to measuring the fighters. I can’t see how Andre Ward beats him; I can’t see how Golovkin beats him. The tougher fight – when it comes to Saunders – and I’m not worried about Saunders at all, I’m worried about Frank Warren," Eubank Sr. told talkSPORT’s Kick Off Boxing show.

Eubank Sr. has created a big headache for the biggest promoters in the UK. Both Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn have worked with the Eubanks at various times. The Eubanks cut their ties with both promoters after constant in-fighting.

Eubank Sr. explains that he wasn't happy with the way Warren and Hearn were using his son - in terms of the purses he was receiving and the type of fights he was getting.

A former world champion himself, Eubank Sr. believes they are better off on their own and have no use for a promoter.

“I didn’t realise my son had been watching the love and respect that I’ve always got. And this must have been what inspired him to want a little bit of what Dad has. So then I steer him [into] how he can be the best fighter he can be – so I give him nothing but hardship," Eubank Sr. said.

“I give him tasks which are supposed to break him; he comes through those tasks. It’s really being tough on them because that’s the only way I’m actually going to make them good. And that is a severe type of love. Get him hurt so that there is no one in the ring that can get him hurt.

“So after all of that, I am supposed to hand him over to an Eddie Hearn? Am I supposed to hand him over to Frank Warren? Never mind the money. The love, the worry; what am I? Do I have a sign on my forehead saying: misuse me? I should do all this work and give him to you.  I don’t understand. If you work with your child and you put your child through school, you don’t go give your child away.

“If I sound edgy, it’s baffling to me that anyone should say to me: step aside. I want someone in the public – one of those keyboard warriors – tell me this: would you give me someone more qualified than me? So I can let them look after Junior. Please, find someone more qualified than me and I will step aside.”