Eubank Sr on Herol Graham sparring KO story (!)

[kells]

For someone so defence gifted bomber sounds punch drunk!!!

[Parson Cross]

There's nothing wrong with Herol. Punch drunk ? You havin a laugh ? Very popular for after dinner speaking. He has a story to tell.

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"I sparred with Herol Graham for six weeks around October 1986, and in our last eight-rounder, I put him on his back in the first round with a left hook off a right hand feint, then he got up and outboxed me for four and a half rounds before I put him on his bottom with a right uppercut off a left hook feint, and then he outboxed me for a further two rounds.

"The man was an expert defensive genius. It took me a month and a half to, uhh.... figure him out, so to speak. I had watched him on Television on a Barry McGuigan undercard and reached his manager Barney Eastwood through my brother Peter.

"In New York, I thought I'd seen it all. Certainly not. Watching the sparring were future champions Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson and Ryan Rhodes and I remember it clearly, the look of utter astonishment when their hero went down for the first time ever."

I'm sure that Herol has a slightly different story !!

All i would say is that if Eubank was so confident of beating Herol, then why did he avoid fighting him ?

Eubank has openly said that he never fought Graham because he wasn't confident of beating him.

[Parson Cross]

Chris Eubank quote "What's the point of fighting someone you can't hit ?"

[palooka]

Chris Eubank quote "What's the point of fighting someone you can't hit ?"

That's similar to what Mark Kaylor said after boxing Herol; 'If you can't him you can't beat him' or something like it.

[thepocketrocket]

What were the scorecards at the time of the Brewer defeat????

[palooka]

84-86, 85-84, 86-86 it was very close.

[thepocketrocket]

84-86, 85-84, 86-86 it was very close.

remember when he came back against Johnson and people thought he was going to get hurt. Huge shock when he took him to school