By Keith Idec

Chris Eubank Jr. still can’t believe what he witnessed when he was in Las Vegas last month.

Eubank traveled there to train at Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s gym, where Mayweather prepared for his August 26 pay-per-view spectacle against Conor McGregor. The British super middleweight watched in amazement as Mayweather walked out of the strip club he owns, Girl Collection, at 5 a.m. just two weeks before beating McGregor by 10th-round technical knockout at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

“Two weeks before the fight, I watched him walk out of the strip club at five in the morning,” Eubank told the Daily Mail for a story posted to the London tabloid’s website Thursday. “It’s surreal. It’s like, ‘Jesus.’ Then the next week, he’s at a pool party. He’s not drinking and he’s got his section up at the top and he’s just chilling and stuff.

“But it’s like, ‘You’re at a pool party and you’re about to fight in a week-and-a-half’s time. Who does that?’ Well, Floyd does that. Everybody is different and the thing with Floyd is, in a good way and a bad way – well, it’s good for him, obviously, because it works for him.”

The 28-year-old Eubank (25-1, 19 KOs) is back in England, finishing camp for his fight against Turkey’s Avni Yildirim (16-0, 10 KOs) on October 7 in Stuttgart, Germany. The Eubank-Yildirim winner will advance to the semifinals in the World Boxing Super Series’ super middleweight tournament.

While fully focused on his upcoming fight, Eubank can’t help but wonder whether Mayweather’s unusual lifestyle has had a negative impact on Gervonta Davis. The unbeaten knockout artist from Baltimore was stripped of the IBF super featherweight title the day before Davis (19-0, 18 KOs) knocked out Costa Rica’s Francisco Fonseca (19-1-1, 13 KOs) on the Mayweather-McGregor undercard because he couldn’t make weight.

“You have kids that are looking at [Mayweather’s lifestyle] and thinking, ‘Oh, I can do that. I can go to the club and party and do whatever I want and then fight,’ ” Eubank said. “And you just can’t. You just can’t. With [Mayweather], I can pretty much guarantee you that lifestyle wasn’t how he got to where he is. He was doing it the right way – not the right way, because he’s still winning. … What he’s doing now is the right way for him. But the traditional way.

“That’s how he started and that’s how every fighter needs to start. And it worries me a bit with [Davis] because I know ‘Tank’ is spending a lot of time with Floyd, and he’s his hero, and a lot rubs off. And he’s a great talent, a lot of potential.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.