I knew Watson would beat Benn. TedSpoon hadn't seen Benn fight yet even though he was a major hype job, so I acquired a few tapes and saw that when Benn stepped up in class against Reggie Miller he struggled. I saw Watson take Miller apart with ease.
I saw Watson take apart world class Franklin Owens, who had given Michael Nunn and Michael Olajide so much trouble. But the British commentators didn't realise Owens was world class.
Benn and his people seemed to be treating the Watson fight as a stage to showcase this dynamite-fisted, phenonimon to the US public and grossly overlooked Watson's ability.
Michael Watson was so pleasing at blocking punches. Dipping in low with those elbows to take the sting off of body shots, and having those hands up very high to protect his head. Very cool customer.
Observe his defence in his fight with Benn for example. TedSpoon wonders if the word 'negate' was spawned from this showing...
NO. Chris Eubank at his best is definately the best of this bunch. Not quite the same after the Benn fight but before then he never wasted a shot, moved and countered as well as anything TedSpoon has seen
The awkward Herol Graham arguably deserved the verdict against Mike McCallum (1989) and Sumbu Kalambay (1992), now TedSpoon doesn't have to tell you that McCallum and Kalambay were on another planet to somebody like a Charles Brewer