Eubank praises Brit MWs, Tyson, Joe Louis, Himself...

[coghaugen]

Nobody goes a week with no food and fights worth a damn no matter how great his genetics are. Didn't this superman lose a fight or two in spite of his supposed mental and physical superiority? To bad he wasn't mentally tough enough to hang on to the many millions he must have been paid for all those big fights he had.

From his book apparently this is - (going into first Watson fight)

I lost 19lb in four days. That was through total abstinence of food and water and full, exhausting training at the same time. There is nothing harder than to train when you have nothing in your stomach - you retch, you feel faint, you are stretching yourself to the limit. When you dry out to that extreme, it is difficult to even blink, your eyes are so dehydrated. I had to periodically plunge my head into a sink of water to sooth the dryness. Four days without food or water makes you retch at your own breath. I used to even have the complementary fruit bowls removed from my hotel rooms, because just the smell of an apple or orange was torture. The evening before the fight, John Regan was with me in my room at The Coachhouse and I wanted to get a bag off the floor. I couldn't face picking it up, so I asked John to help me. Then I stood up and blacked out.

Crazy.

I strutted up and did my usual vault, brimming with energy, John was in the front row, shaking his head, remembering how exhausted I had been the night before when I asked him to pick up that empty plastic bag.

[boliodogs]

Sorry I said anything negative about Eubank. He was sounding too good to be true and I couldn't resist. It seems what I read about him being worth only half a million is incorrect and he is very wealthy and I like that. Even at age 53 he still looks fantastic. I am a big fan of his son and think he is very good. I hope he gets the big fights he wants soon.

[coghaugen]

I am glad to hear he has lots of money. I like him and his son and wish them well. I think his son is a damn good fighter who has many of his father's physical gifts.

Just no finesse like his dad, no jab like his dad, no counter punching like his dad, no fleet feet like his dad, etc. A wild fit brawler...

[coghaugen]

He's made a lot from his sons career no doubt, being Jr's manager and having the Super Six and ITV PPV and DeGale fight (and now Haymon investing)

[Inspired]

Eubank was a freak. He never did any weight-training! Never even did push-ups! He ate only once a day, and didn't eat at all in fight week until after weighing in, and yet displayed a physique that wouldn't look out of place on a bodybuilder stage.

No fighter can train all year round like that and not take a week off before a fight or a month off after a fight. The guy was an alien. And nobody who was fighting at 154lb exactly 10yrs before can absorb knockout right hands from a ripped 210+lb KO puncher (Thompson) with left eye completely closed (not seeing the punches coming) and not going over and keep fighting back!!

Nobody was more alien and non-average than Chris Eubank.

Even beyond physical, he'd start a round completely ****ing still, or stand between rounds without moving etc! In front of 10-50,000 hostile fans and a Benn or Watson or giant-looking Rocchi etc etc. Mentally the strongest man who ever boxed, as well as physically the toughest/fittest (different to stamina).

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80182672

he did blag a lot in this documentary, but what a nutcase. that scene in the truck driving around Brighton was hilarious. He used to drop off his kids to school in that too LOL.

[coghaugen]

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80182672
he did blag a lot in this documentary, but what a nutcase. that scene in the truck driving around Brighton was hilarious. He used to drop off his kids to school in that too LOL.

Holding Theroux's hand crossing the road! What the fuuuck haha

[Inspired]

Holding Theroux's hand crossing the road! What the fuuuck haha

the mad eccentric character was something he did for marketing reasons (not for sexual reasons LOL). He would make tv appearances playing into that act. He's not changed eg walking around wearing an american police badge for almost a year. I wonder if he's taken the fking thing off now.

[coghaugen]

to be fair to eubank he was a bit of a beast in the ring with all those fights per year and going to ireland both times to fight collins, pity he didnt make the trip to the states tho, that would have been epic, instead he was a bit of a mr wbo

when they asked him why he didnt go afaikr he said people come to champs, eh ok chris

Don King tried bringing him Stateside to main event the brand new MGM, after Benn-Eubank II at the post-fight presser King suggested both Benn and Eubank relinquish their titles, Benn face Nunn in London for the WBA and Eubank face Terry Norris for the vacant WBC title on the MGM opening night.

There was some arguing, King called Barry Hearn and Eubank 'sons of *****es' and Eubank walked out saying 'you blew it, I won', and didn't go with King.

[coghaugen]

the mad eccentric character was something he did for marketing reasons (not for sexual reasons LOL). He would make tv appearances playing into that act. He's not changed eg walking around wearing an american police badge for almost a year. I wonder if he's taken the fking thing off now.

He's actually a voluntary police Sheriff in Louisiana! Or was. Just another mad stint/phase. Like when he was head coach of Angola for the Olympics and forgot to weigh them in on time, so all their opponents got byes (and Eubank got sacked)!

[coghaugen]

Even Enzo Calzaghe admitted he thought deep down that Eubank was the man and would be too good for his boy, when Eubank stepped in to face Joe