Comments Thread For: Chris Eubank Jr. Would Consider Returning To Middleweight

[BillyBoxing]

Im wondering why his entire team was just his dad and a 71 year old cutman??? With shakes worse than Roach...

English isn't a trainer if you ask me.

[IlikeBikeTython]

Bigger man??? Eubank looked like the bigger man???

Are you joking? Groves looked huge compared to Eubank Jr. He was 185lbs and Eubank was 170. This was confirmed by the British broadcasters. With the norm in boxing today being that you cut a bunch of weight in order to fight in a weight division lower than your natural weight, the fact that Eubank Jr is only 170lbs at fight time shows us he is not a super middleweight. He is a middleweight. He was smaller against Groves than Jacobs has been for any of his last 5 fights st middleweight. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if Jermall Charlo and Canelo didn’t weigh 170 for their last couple fights at Junior Middleweight! And yet he thinks he can compete with the top guys in the works at super middleweight? 15lbs is a huge gap and although he could beat old dudes and no name Turkish robots and Australian amateurs, he will get bullied by the top guys. Middleweight is his division. He should take his poor boxing skills but world class motor/workrate/stamina and a damn good chin down to middleweight and fight the big names and let the chips fall where they may. It will make for some exciting fights. And for the doofuses saying Saunders would have Eubank missing by a mile all night and whatever else, are you not aware they have already fought, and that Saunders got a razor thin split decision after outboxing Eubank for the first half of the fight but then being walked down and getting knocked around with some big shots over the last half of the fight. IMO if it was a 15 round fight we would have had a different winner. Eubank has insane stamina, Saunders has average or poor stamina. It was entertaining fight and Saunders has appeared to have upped his game of late so I’d live to see a rematch at middleweight

[evets]

Are you joking? Groves looked huge compared to Eubank Jr....

Good post with regards to the weight though I'm not sold on his stamina. I think we can't tell Juniors weight size/stamina for fights properly though as he doesn't have a trainer/team and likely doesn't cut weight and rehydrate properly. It was another part of his inexperience that he was fighting against in this fight and couldn't see.

[Shadoww702]

Are you joking? Groves looked huge compared to Eubank Jr. He was 185lbs and Eubank was 170. This was confirmed by the British broadcasters. With the norm in boxing today being that you cut a bunch of weight in order to fight in a weight division lower than your natural weight, the fact that Eubank Jr is only 170lbs at fight time shows us he is not a super middleweight. He is a middleweight. He was smaller against Groves than Jacobs has been for any of his last 5 fights st middleweight. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if Jermall Charlo and Canelo didn’t weigh 170 for their last couple fights at Junior Middleweight! And yet he thinks he can compete with the top guys in the works at super middleweight? 15lbs is a huge gap and although he could beat old dudes and no name Turkish robots and Australian amateurs, he will get bullied by the top guys. Middleweight is his division. He should take his poor boxing skills but world class motor/workrate/stamina and a damn good chin down to middleweight and fight the big names and let the chips fall where they may. It will make for some exciting fights. And for the doofuses saying Saunders would have Eubank missing by a mile all night and whatever else, are you not aware they have already fought, and that Saunders got a razor thin split decision after outboxing Eubank for the first half of the fight but then being walked down and getting knocked around with some big shots over the last half of the fight. IMO if it was a 15 round fight we would have had a different winner. Eubank has insane stamina, Saunders has average or poor stamina. It was entertaining fight and Saunders has appeared to have upped his game of late so I’d live to see a rematch at middleweight

Eubank weighed more on the scale. I thought Groves looked drained and another reason I thought he was gonna lose.

IMO the skill and Eubank with no real team or Plan "A"/ "B" was the real problem. I mean Eubank had a 21.2% power punches landed. He landed like 17 total jabs. He kept coming forward and was geting countered at will!!

[Shadoww702]

Lets do a poll???

Anyone really believe Eubank only lost because of size???

I dont.

[Shadoww702]

English isn't a trainer if you ask me.

Lol. McGuigan called them a bunch of PE Teachers. And it showed. He looks muscular and in good shape but boxing he did lil of.

[PittyPat]

During the fight, Eubank did appear to have the same punching power that he displayed at 160.

Oh for fu...
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[alexguiness]

If he wss **** at 168 and **** at 160, he is...****.

His best win was either Abraham or O'Sullivan FFS.

Lets just have some honesty for a change, he's unskilled and overhyped...even AFTER getting beaten comprehensively by Groves.