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

[Ivansmamma]

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.

[jackblack008]

Wtf.. did this happen for real?

[Mindgames]

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.

Eubank was just looking for a way out. If Hearn had gone back to Eubank and agreed,Chris would have added "oh, and I'll be needing a night with your wife"..

[coghaugen]

It was Barry's most treasured item. Eubank beating Benn at the NEC made Barry, even more so than Steve Davis winning the World title in snooker. That £1M gate receipt was unheard of in those days, never been done anywhere before in boxing let alone Britain. And Eubank, the man he invested time and money in and took that huge gamble with, WON. Matchroom would've gone BROKE if Eubank lost and Eddie would've been taken out of private school.

[Quicksilver*]

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.

Sounds about right

[Ray*]

Eubank was just looking for a way out. If Hearn had gone back to Eubank and agreed,Chris would have added "oh, and I'll be needing a night with your wife"..

Yep, it’s more of a principle thing. Eubank could have asked for that picture at any time without using his son’s contract as a decoy. He obviously place a lot of value in the picture and I can understand why.

[Curt Henning]

This may be the dumbest reason I've ever heard for a fight falling through.

yup

also not the reason they gave before.....which i never believed anyway....i always believe both sides wanted golovkin/brook and eubank was the scapegoat...because the public would never buy brook/golovkin as an actual fight both sides wantd to put together...they always used the "this is the best we could do" excuse

[AKAcronym]

yup

also not the reason they gave before.....which i never believed anyway....i always believe both sides wanted golovkin/brook and eubank was the scapegoat...because the public would never buy brook/golovkin as an actual fight both sides wantd to put together...they always used the "this is the best we could do" excuse

Yeah...no, you just desperately want that to be true.

[Larry the boss]

lol............

[The D3vil]

lol............

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