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Eubank on Eubank-Jones:
I don't think I'd of gone in there and gone for his head, not initially.
I could land body punches from out of range and I never once got caught, not one time.
I could land body punches from in range where only two a round for four rounds would break my opponent down after six.
Jones had great speed and all the moves and I was very fast with some great moves, a strategic mind and cast-iron chin.
So I think that fight might've come down to a battle of wills in the end and who could take the most punishment.
The one thing I know is that if I lost, Jones would've been hurt.
Eubank on Eubank-Toney:
A fight with James Toney would've been even more dangerous than Jones, because he had the most fire in his belly - more even than Nigel Benn.
He was an aggressive slippery counter puncher, I recall.
Persistent hard punches to the body and head from the outside range with both hands would've broke him down, but he had the fire to break down the pain barriers.
Beforehand I'd of insisted for stretchers awaiting with a clear pathway to the ring.
Eubank on Eubank-Nunn:
Nunn was everything you wanted to avoid - big, busy southpaw and a mover, a boxer.
But he couldn't punch and he couldn't hold body punches very well.
Eubank on Why the fights didn't happen:
I was making a million a fight and fighting five or six times a year. I wouldn't have earned any more fighting Toney or Jones and they had to book me and simply did not.
Their promoters wouldn't let me fight in America because apparently I had too much of a difficult style to look good against for their paid-screen.
The one fight I turned down in America was Iran Barkley. I would not of turned down Nunn or Toney or Jones if the money was correct.
Barkley was another matter. I knew the sort of hunger and the sort of mind-frame the New Yorkers had, they were a particular type of beast, a peculiar type of beast; so tough, so rough... they wouldn't stop.
He also described James Toney as:
The reason I couldn't get endorsement deals.
I don't think I'd of gone in there and gone for his head, not initially.
I could land body punches from out of range and I never once got caught, not one time.
I could land body punches from in range where only two a round for four rounds would break my opponent down after six.
Jones had great speed and all the moves and I was very fast with some great moves, a strategic mind and cast-iron chin.
So I think that fight might've come down to a battle of wills in the end and who could take the most punishment.
The one thing I know is that if I lost, Jones would've been hurt.
Eubank on Eubank-Toney:
A fight with James Toney would've been even more dangerous than Jones, because he had the most fire in his belly - more even than Nigel Benn.
He was an aggressive slippery counter puncher, I recall.
Persistent hard punches to the body and head from the outside range with both hands would've broke him down, but he had the fire to break down the pain barriers.
Beforehand I'd of insisted for stretchers awaiting with a clear pathway to the ring.
Eubank on Eubank-Nunn:
Nunn was everything you wanted to avoid - big, busy southpaw and a mover, a boxer.
But he couldn't punch and he couldn't hold body punches very well.
Eubank on Why the fights didn't happen:
I was making a million a fight and fighting five or six times a year. I wouldn't have earned any more fighting Toney or Jones and they had to book me and simply did not.
Their promoters wouldn't let me fight in America because apparently I had too much of a difficult style to look good against for their paid-screen.
The one fight I turned down in America was Iran Barkley. I would not of turned down Nunn or Toney or Jones if the money was correct.
Barkley was another matter. I knew the sort of hunger and the sort of mind-frame the New Yorkers had, they were a particular type of beast, a peculiar type of beast; so tough, so rough... they wouldn't stop.
He also described James Toney as:
The reason I couldn't get endorsement deals.
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