King of Showmen

**TheHoff!** · 04-04-2006, 04:07 PM

Yeah the weight loss has got to have had a major effect on his stamina but I've also read and heard from quite a few different sources that he didnt like roadwork and did as little as possible... which in turn probably had a detrimental effect on his attempts to make weight.

**TheHoff!** · 04-04-2006, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by Pugilistic_Polarbear

When you lose the kind of weight he had to lose and when you leave it until the last few days to lose the weight,he would of been dehydrated about halfway through the fight

See to me that's lazy. Leaving it that late means he has gone in unprepared when he could of lost the weight systematically over a longer period and been in a much better condition come fight time. That strikes me as someone who puts things off and leaves them till last minute because they are too lazy to do them properly.

**JuicyJuice** · 04-04-2006, 06:36 PM

Eubank told an American reporter in 1989 - "your going to be watching the best fighter in the world tonight". His confidence was immense, right upto the Benn fight. But the Benn fight humbed him and brought him back down to earth, he really under-estimated Benn (which sounds nuts, but this was Eubank). He was in a terrible state in the weeks after the Benn fight, and from then on his heart just wasn't in the game anymore.

**JuicyJuice** · 04-04-2006, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by JuicyJuice

Eubank told an American reporter in 1989 - "your going to be watching the best fighter in the world tonight"

It was before his fight later that night on the Azumah Nelson/Jimmy McDonnell undercard. The main event that night was supposed to be Mike McCallum/Michael Watson for the world middleweight title - on Fireworks Night 1989, but McCallum/Watson was postponed (because Watson broke his nose in his last sparring session before the fight). Anyway, Eubank was an outspoken up-coming middleweight and American's wanted to take a look at him, so he was pencilled to appear on the McCallum/Watson card which would be screened live across America on NBC.

**TheHoff!** · 04-04-2006, 07:19 PM

JuicyJuice you are quite ammusing in the way you sidestep issues and just carry on babbling. But I do respect your use of alliteration in yours and your alt's usernames...or is that assonance...anyway..

**JuicyJuice** · 04-04-2006, 08:04 PM

Check this **** out -

part 1: http://img461.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cb13dz.jpg

part 2: http://img418.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cb24og.jpg

**Easy-E** · 04-04-2006, 09:16 PM

Originally posted by JuicyJuice

Eubank told an American reporter in 1989 - "your going to be watching the best fighter in the world tonight". His confidence was immense, right upto the Benn fight. But the Benn fight humbed him and brought him back down to earth, he really under-estimated Benn (which sounds nuts, but this was Eubank). He was in a terrible state in the weeks after the Benn fight, and from then on his heart just wasn't in the game anymore.

ya, he got rocked and then fizzled out into poverty and oblivion.

weve heard it all before juy juy, that article was from 7 years ago about a guy whos been retired for 8. how can you justify not putting this in boxing history?