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Chris Eubank Snr praises Barry Hearn, and drops more boxing knowledge
August 30, 2020



The Chris Eubank Snr Story!

Dubai’s greatest fighting resident gives us a look back through his boxing history, as Chris Eubank Snr, ‘just call me Sargent!’ he says, seems to hint that Eddie Hearn might be to blame for the mess that is Dillian Whyte’s boxing career with some cryptic messages.

Sargent on Eddie Hearn’s fathers’ influence:

My story is I spent 85% of the 80s in New York learning my trade. The best teachers of the art are in America. Then made my way over the Atlantic to London – the home of boxing – and turned down the whole Cartel, both Franks, Mr Eastwood and a few others before employing Barry Hearn to work on my behalf. Finding the right promoter is a key to a keyhole.



If your promoter isn’t capable of landing you one world title fight, then your promoter is exposed as a talker; a fly-by-night. And as they said in the East End – the loud ones never last; the Essex Boys, the pretty boys, the fly-by-nights.

Barry Hearn got me the Benn fight in less than 18 months total, and I wasn’t even mandatory contender. That’s a man you can’t fault. I was making £8,000 a fight under Barry Hearn before the world championship fight, which was dream money to me. They say old school is the best school, don’t they? But you never stop practicing your craft right through your career, so you’re never out of fighting shape.

Benn is on the front cover of ‘The Bible of Boxing’ as ‘Boxing’s Baddest Bad Boy’ and I take him out as it’s hitting the shelves on either side of the Atlantic. American TV turn the fight down because they assume it is just another 90-second blow-out for Benn back in England.



So I do my own thing in the rest of the world for 85% of the 90s – 24 world championship contests; live up in Canada, live in Africa, live in Asia, live across Europe and live in front of around 15 to 20 million in the United Kingdom about five times a year. That’s the Chris Eubank story.



The Barry Hearn story? I mean this is the man. Did Herbie Hide win an Olympic gold medal? No, Herbie came from nowhere, Barry had the eye for him and we got him to the pinnacle against Bowe. That’s the crack. That’s proper.


“The Sargent” Chris Eubank Snr
Sargent Eubank on the infamous first Nigel Benn fight:

In the Benn-Eubank 1990 contest we are using 8oz gloves that are made from horse hair mixed with foam cell. Benn’s long run of knockouts and his one-round wins were the most barbaric the sport had seen. And I was the one man he despised.



My hands were swelled up for days after the fight, my jaw and ribs were tender and bruised for a few weeks, my tongue was ripped apart and my internal organs had been badly damaged. My lip was hanging for a week or so, there is like a dent in my skull for a bit.



Ronnie had to wash me in the shower after, and carry me out of bed the next day to face the press – every word I spoke to the press, and there were many, was excruciatingly painful because my jaw was swollen and my tongue stitched.

And this wasn’t even my hardest fight! That tells you about the Watson II fight. Just that alone. I fought Watson at his very best in June 1991 and it was easy, and three months later he is somehow four times that and wipes the floor with me.


Sargent on the WBO and Lennox Lewis:

The fighter maketh the belt. It didn’t matter which one of the four governing bodies you held, if you were the longest reigning world champion then you were the man. If you had the longest unbeaten record in boxing, it doesn’t actually matter which of the four sanctioning bodies you represent; you’re making that belt. If you fight the mandatory challenger, you’re legit.

And if belt maketh the fighter, then WBC is the premiere belt, and I at least proved I was equal best in the best division if that’s the case. But it’s not. Fighters maketh belts, not the other way round.

Look at Lennox Lewis – the last great heavyweight we might ever see – nobody is saying he’s not undisputed heavyweight champion for not holding the WBO, because he’s Lennox Lewis.

He’s beating all the big names – Frank Brunos, Tommy Morrisons, Klitschkos, Tysons, Razor Ruddocks, Holyfields, Bowes, everyone. Not the very best pound-for-pound fighters, only because they’re at middle and super-middle, but anyone they put in front of Lennie he’s taking out – so he’s the man.

When I say we won’t see his ilk again, that’s across the board from middle to heavy and it’s because a lot of the NBA, NFL, MMA, rugby, Crossfit or wrestling participants you see today – or even PTs – would have been in the boxing gym in 1980 or 1990 or 2000; hungry, boxing.



PPV has taken boxing from mainstream, so the standard has dipped substantially over the past 20 years. They aren’t skillsters today – they are bodybuilders, weightlifters and decathletes. They are masters of calisthenics, not masters of counter-punching or combination-punching. I don’t see the skill sets that I saw in the 80s and 90s.


Sargent on his experience and knowledge:

Nobody knows boxing like me. I’ll tell you for why – I knew my craft, I knew my art. If you take a cross between Ali and Pernell Whitaker, I’m not beating that. Nobody is. That’s Michael Nunn, that’s Herol Graham. I couldn’t gamble that they’d be offensive against me, like when they lost. If they box defensive you can’t beat them. The mindless will think they can beat them.

If you asked Mike Tyson in his peak if he’d beat a cross between Ali and Pernell Whitaker, he’d laugh and tell you he wouldn’t stand a chance. Mike knows the game, one of very few.

I’m very good at math. Roy Jones could throw four left hooks in the time it took me to throw one. Do you understand? I fought to win when I was champion.

I learned from the very best – Mickey Duff, Don King and the like. They’ll lie to you, they’ll take advantage, they’ll tie you in, they’ll play dirty. But I always had the last laugh, because you can’t actually defeat integrity. And my knowledge of the past I try to pass on to any fighter since who cares to listen.

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[littlepug]

Can listen to him waffling all day!

[Steveh583]

Christ he goes on

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Christ he goes on

That was weak



Have some respect for Lord Christ

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Christ he goes on

That was weak



Have some respect for Lord Christ

Genuinely starting to wonder if you are Harlem

[Onamastus]

Sargent on the WBO and Lennox Lewis:

The fighter maketh the belt. It didn’t matter which one of the four governing bodies you held, if you were the longest reigning world champion then you were the man. If you had the longest unbeaten record in boxing, it doesn’t actually matter which of the four sanctioning bodies you represent; you’re making that belt. If you fight the mandatory challenger, you’re legit.

And if belt maketh the fighter, then WBC is the premiere belt, and I at least proved I was equal best in the best division if that’s the case. But it’s not. Fighters maketh belts, not the other way round.

Look at Lennox Lewis – the last great heavyweight we might ever see – nobody is saying he’s not undisputed heavyweight champion for not holding the WBO, because he’s Lennox Lewis.

He’s beating all the big names – Frank Brunos, Tommy Morrisons, Klitschkos, Tysons, Razor Ruddocks, Holyfields, Bowes, everyone. Not the very best pound-for-pound fighters, only because they’re at middle and super-middle, but anyone they put in front of Lennie he’s taking out – so he’s the man.

He really just makes it up as he goes along, doesn't he?

If you were the longest reigning, you were the man? No you weren't. Roy Jones was the man, and Chris wanted nothing to do with him.

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Stop that bad talk. It's not that he wasn't saying things properly, it's that he was saying them correctly.

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that's cleared that up brilliantly, thanks, you write with all the conciseness and clarity of the man himself.

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Boxing: Eubank labours to make points: Head-to-head that never happened fails to rouse the multitude. Jonathan Rendall reports
JONATHAN RENDALL
Thursday 7 October 1993 00:02
THE idea was for Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn to meet 'head to head' for a last publicity opportunity before Eubank - as is widely expected - puts the 'Dark Destroyer' to sleep again in their rematch on Saturday at Old Trafford.

It didn't happen. Benn didn't show up, and Eubank instead put everyone else to sleep with an hour and a half's worth of public meditation on life, the universe and, particularly, his place in it. Even childbirth got a look in as Eubank remembered his last fight with Benn, at Birmingham more than two years ago; a fight after which Eubank turned to his promoter, Barry Hearn, and said: 'Barry, Barry, take me to the hospital.'


The soft tone of an ante-natal counsellor entered Eubank's voice as he said: 'When women have babies the pain is excruciating. At the time you say 'Never again' but afterwards, because of what you have produced, you forget the pain. I use that example because I am a woman's man.'

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Even Don King, the co-promoter, a man also capable of going on talking until someone finally interrupts him, found that hoods of skin seem to be descending over his eyes; eyes that have launched a million tickets in their time but which maintain a curious, hollow stillness even when the mouth below them is working at overspeed.

But King kept flashing the odd dazzling smile to keep up appearances. He did not seem particularly interested in Eubank when they met in New York recently. But since his arrival in Britain King has become considerably more so. Despite the fact that Benn-Eubank has been competing for back pages of the papers with certain heavyweight events in Cardiff, the fight has sold and there could be as many as 40,000 bona fide punters in the stadium on Saturday. Even accounting for 'free paper', you do not get gates like that in America any longer.

Anyway, King had said his piece, which was that he had spoken to Benn and could report that Benn had chosen not to come because he could not trust himself not to chin Eubank. 'He told me he could not stand to look at the man without tearing him apart,' King said. 'We have a very hostile situation here, as all wars tend to be.'

A few minutes later Hearn inadvertently let slip that King had not spoken to Benn at all but to one of his advisers. But no matter. The Board of Control's general secretary objected to the military analogy and thus allowed King to respond by saying that they would not be playing tiddly-winks out there. 'The Marquis of Queensberry is smiling over me now,' King added. 'I can feel his spirit.'

Then it was over to Eubank, who said that the addition of his old trainer, Maximo Pierret, to the camp had made him train twice as hard. However, when asked if this meant that previously he had only trained as half as much as he should, Eubank admonished: 'Stop that bad talk. It is not that I was not training properly but that I am now training correctly.'

Eubank was in his jodhpur and expensive tweed country squire get-up, this time topped off by a monocle. It is tempting to go along with the claims of his (rather cowed) promoters that he is a truculent but well-meaning eccentric. No one would doubt that he is well-meaning, nor that he is a brave and improving performer in the ring. But delusions of grandeur seem to be setting in.

Eubank also ticked off a rival claimant to the world super-middleweight championship, the American Michael Nunn who is regarded as a master boxer, for presuming to want to fight him in Britain for the short end of a purse. Eubank said he would rather fight James Toney, yet another 'world champion', because Toney had allegedly insulted his mother on a TV show and it was 'personal'.

Eventually, Eubank concluded ruefully that Toney's comments had brought boxing into disrepute and were 'the reason why I can't get Adidas and Reebok to give me endorsement deals'. But by then no one could be bothered to disagree.

(Photograph omitted)

Christian Broughton
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Prob with Eubank is that he can’t help but talk about himself.

He can talk all he fornicating wants

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.co ... 55053/amp/

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Christ he goes on

That was weak



Have some respect for Lord Christ

Genuinely starting to wonder if you are Harlem

He claims to be former boxer Dean Bramhald.

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Benn is on the front cover of ‘The Bible of Boxing’ as ‘Boxing’s Baddest Bad Boy’

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RIP Reg Gutteridge. Nobody out there to compare today to Reg.

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