Comments Thread For: Hearn Details How Eubank Jr. Lost Golovkin Shot Over a Photo

[Bunch Pag]

Eddie would trade his dad's buriel suit to strike a deal for himself. A picture is nothing for him...

Father and Son but different in Class...

[Gideon lock]

nahh, just listen to this. You KNOW 'English' was trying to get gangsta on Dad. I even edited it for Chris' voice.

“Then Chris Sr looked at me and said, ‘Edward, there’th one more thing. In your father’th office ith a picture of me punching Nigel Benn. It altho hath the official scorecardth from the fight, you must remove the picture and give it to me. If you do I will thign the deal.’

"So I’m like, ‘Okay, I’ve just given you a load of money and everything you want, and now you want a picture off the wall in my Dad’s office?’ ‘Yeth, thith ith correct.’ I said, ‘Okay, sounds alright to me.’ Went into my Dad’s office, ‘Alright Dad, it was quite painful, but we’ve done the deal. Just one thing, you know that picture over there, can we have that?’
“He said, ‘Well what do you mean?’ I said, ‘Well Eubank said if you give him that picture the deal’s done.’ He said, ‘Tell Eubank to go and stick it up his behind, that is my favourite picture in the world and there is no way I’m removing that from my wall.’



Chris has to be referring to Benn/Eubank II which ended in a draw. He probably thinks there's evidence of a fix in that photo.

Hahahahahahaha this hath me in thitches.

[Doubledagger]

Sound like entitlement from both sides.

Nah bro that's just some egotistical shieet from Eubanks Sr.

Remove the picture off your wall and give it to me? This is like some sort of power play.

Barry Hearn was right to tell Eubanks Snr to shove it.

[Doubledagger]

your belief system and bias is blinding you from the obvious.

They spent a couple of months trying to put the Eubank fight together. They had a date reserved at the venue but as the date got closer Eubank still hadn't signed and the situation was getting desperate.

Hearn was the lead promoter and he needed a quick remedy - he called a natural elite 154 fighter as I don't believe he had other world class middle weights and Brook said yes.

Look up Occam's Razor.

Did you just say that Brook is a naturally elite 154 fighter at the time he fought GGG?

Lol, talk about spinning things to suit your biased narrative.

[Boxing Logic]

Its a picture of Eubank and the scorecards from his fight? Seems kind of petty not to give it to him if he wants it... but its also a real ****** reason for not putting together a fight if its true.

One thing I've learned about boxing and **** like this in general, almost none of it is true. But you can get a lot of money, time, and attention out of people by making believe things are true that are not, and even their political beliefs and way of life can be manipulated by doing so.

[coghaugen]

I'm sure there are two or three sides to the story

[Boxing Logic]

Did you just say that Brook is a naturally elite 154 fighter at the time he fought GGG?

Lol, talk about spinning things to suit your biased narrative.

Well he was elite at 147 at the time and big enough for 154 especially of the Cotto/Canelo "era" at 154, but given that the next "era" there were guys like Hurd and Jermall Charlo who belong at 168 or 175, that complicates the comparison quite a bit. Spence will probably be at 154 soon, although I think all the top guys would beat him unless there is funny business (but this whole "sport" is funny business so...), and Brook was boxing him even at 147 even after the GGG "fight" until extra funny business happened.

For all we know, Brook really could have been the SRL of 147 of his era, but because unlike SRL, he fought the best guy at 160 before fighting anyone good at 147, rather than after, and funny business supposedly happened to his eye which then had the appearance of ruining the rest of his career, it ruined our chance of ever seeing that narrative play out.

But with all that said, GGG's career is a joke. Fans wouldn't have to "wonder what if" about an unproven welterweight he "beat" if he'd actually done anything with his career to match the talk of his team. They started out saying 154 to 175. Then 154 to 168. Then "we want to unify 160 before moving up" (to do those things). Then "we can't even unify 160."

As a GGG fan, I remember it always being marketed that beating a name like Canelo was always just supposed to be the start of a major legacy run, not the end of it. Because who has Canelo beaten anyway? And he was coming up in weight. Canelo was just supposed to be GGG's Oscar or Tito (for BHop) before he went on to actually do some impressive legacy fights at 168 and 175. It wasn't supposed to be the end destination. And then when it happened both times he just threw jabs all night and no body punches, and it looked like he was even pulling his punches...

So I was a big GGG fan at the start, but I question his entire career now, what little of a career he had outside of on paper title defenses. It was obvious jsut watching him hit the pads in his prime that he his speed, power, and strength, his overall explosiveness, was elite of the elite, as was his form, etc. But he never proved **** in the ring, especially not above his natural weight.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Nah bro that's just some egotistical shieet from Eubanks Sr.

Remove the picture off your wall and give it to me? This is like some sort of power play.

Barry Hearn was right to tell Eubanks Snr to shove it.

Eubank. No S.

And yes, it's the 'English' equivalent of 'Kiss My Ring'.

[Citizen Koba]

your belief system and bias is blinding you from the obvious.

They spent a couple of months trying to put the Eubank fight together. They had a date reserved at the venue but as the date got closer Eubank still hadn't signed and the situation was getting desperate.

Hearn was the lead promoter and he needed a quick remedy - he called a natural elite 154 fighter as I don't believe he had other world class middle weights and Brook said yes.

Look up Occam's Razor.

147, man. You might want correct that, although the rest of the post is valid. Dudes imagining some complex bait and switch pulled on the public are just looking too hard trying to rationalise their narrative. Is it impossible? No, but why look for some out there conspiracy when we already knew how difficult Eubank Sr can be?

[ArturoBalboa]

Nah bro that's just some egotistical shieet from Eubanks Sr.

Remove the picture off your wall and give it to me? This is like some sort of power play.

Barry Hearn was right to tell Eubanks Snr to shove it.

There are power plays within power plays all over this story. Obviously with Eubank sr and Barry Hearn, but also both dads letting their kids know who’s still the boss.

That’s if this story is to be taken at face value. I wouldn’t buy a car off Eddie and I doubt jr really wanted ggg anyway, so who knows what the reality is.