Comments Thread For: Chris Eubank Jr: I Felt That I Won, I Overtook Saunders

[ironalex]

Glad too see that doing the rounds. I was at the fight and it was the worst organised event imaginable. BJS and Fury brought scores of their gypsy extended family without tickets who just felt they ran the place - and they did because security did f..k all.

I reckon the event was also oversold by about 2000 people, I spoke to a few people who had moved to go to the bar and when they got back some gypo had nicked their seat and refused to move. Security refused to do anything.

There were scores of people who just walked into the outer ring area because there was no one there to stop them. Again, security did nothing. The bloke in front of me got threatened and left his £250 seat because people were walking up and offering him out because he told some kid (Fury's 18th nephew, twice removed) to move out of the way.

Team fury eventually started letting some of their brothers/cousins/nephews into the inner ring area when after about an hour of the crowd shouting at security they finally got off their arse.

Frank Warren is a money grabbing c...t for overselling that. I feel bad for the people who paid good money to watch a fight only be threatened and have their seat nicked by BJS fan club.


Still....BJS v Eubank ...what a fight. I had Eubank winning it for the more accurate shots and the fact he had BJS backing up for the second half of the fight. Credit to both fighters, and credit for Eubank for not being intimidated by that crowd. If he won that, there's no way they werent kicking off.

Watch it on tv mate, he got schooled and missed lots, I gave him 3 rounds tops. He was well beaten no other way to put it

[MDPopescu]

I saw it a draw, but with Eubank doing better in the second half (which everybody noticed).

Saunders showed lots of tricks which helped him look better as per total... Eubank need some more brain, in my opinion (because he was the better fighter, but failed to convincingly capitalize...)

[boxingfocus]

I can't see where Eubank would win. 7-5 at most to Saunders.

Eubank only has himself to blame. Only started fighting in the 6th.

This is the problem right here. If he starts 2-3 rounds earlier with proper pressure then he wins the fight, possibly stops BJS.

In the end I scored it 6-6 but I had Eubank Jr 5-0 down going into the 6th. That meant he needed all the close rounds from there on in to win it (and there were 3 that were close albeit I liked the pressure and power punching of Jr over the more technical work of BJS in those rounds and 1 of them BJS nicked it).

I said to the guy next to me after the 2nd round, "I wonder how long it is before it's Ronnie Davies giving the pep talks inbetween rounds." He took over after the 4th and rightly so even if Eubank Jr was a bit obnoxious about it.

I think we saw that Eubank Jr has more potential, he was physically so imposing but he needs to be less wild and learn to set up his shots. 1 shot at a time won't cut it at this level or higher.

[yoz]

Eubank beat himself. If he'd put the pressure on BJS earlier, he may have scored a late stoppage or decision win.

That said, both were blowing hard from round 10. Of the two, Eubank has the attributes to go further; hopefully he'll be humbled by the fight, dissect the loss, and focus on his footwork and jab.

[boxingfocus]

Well, I would say that it depends on what each of us mean when we say bright future? for me bright future = becoming #1 in his division. I don't see that happening even if GGG is gone from MW.

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Ted

****** critieria. A bright future is for only 0.001% of boxers in your opinion. Anybody that fails to become #1 in the division may as well jack it in eh?

I wonder how many British, European, or Commonwealth titles you have hanging on your walls. None I guess!

[Hype job]

[TAZ-G]

Saunders is nothing special.

[Rostov Papa]

Haha boy you didn't overlook nobody. This was the biggest fight of your career, and you got outboxed for majority of the fight.

Take your lumps like a man, sucka! Don't be like David Haye.

[Rostov Papa]

Saunders is nothing special.

Nah, he's fringe top-10 contender level at best. But he's still better than Eubank, and proved it last night.

[FrankieBruno]

Haha boy you didn't overlook nobody. This was the biggest fight of your career, and you got outboxed for majority of the fight.

Take your lumps like a man, sucka! Don't be like David Haye.

Outboxed my arse, it was a fight of 2 halves, neither man outboxed anyone, I had it a draw but if I was going to hand a win, it would be to bjs because he is the champ...Eubanks started way to slow, the fight was boring untill round 6


Outboxed is what Fury did to Chisora