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Rexob wrote:



English has set his son up with an ITV deal that no other so called professional promoter could even dream of getting to me this is a bold gesture to anybody and great business aquamin.

I agree it's a bold gesture, whether it's a wise one we won't know until the details are revealed.

I think on balance it's unlikely to prove a wise move

Having watched that interview, CEJ's excuses for ducking GGG and Saunders (not to mention Jacobs) do not convince me at all.

Naandrew wrote:

Rexob wrote:

Stevieb8006 wrote: This. I never get why eubanks Snoozers and gifts are glossed over when people discuss his career. He turned in some dismal efforts in some of those defences

Eubank was the attraction not his opponents the fans went to see him it didnt matter who he was fighting, fans pay for tickets which means money and lots of it, Its prize fighting ffs, people seem to get mixed up with some rose tinted view of the sport and forget what its really about?

True but it still doesn't disguise the fact that Senior wanted no part of numerous world level fighters.

Jr will go the same way from the looks of things.

Benn x2
Watson x2
Collins x2
Thompson x2?
Need I go on?

Rexob wrote:

Naandrew wrote:

Rexob wrote:
Eubank was the attraction not his opponents the fans went to see him it didnt matter who he was fighting, fans pay for tickets which means money and lots of it, Its prize fighting ffs, people seem to get mixed up with some rose tinted view of the sport and forget what its really about?

True but it still doesn't disguise the fact that Senior wanted no part of numerous world level fighters.

Jr will go the same way from the looks of things.

Benn x2
Watson x2
Collins x2
Thompson x2?
Need I go on?

Calzaghe as well. That said he dodged all the good quality Yanks. He never fought the true top guy in his division

fizzjambo wrote:

Rexob wrote:

Naandrew wrote:
True but it still doesn't disguise the fact that Senior wanted no part of numerous world level fighters.

Jr will go the same way from the looks of things.

Benn x2
Watson x2
Collins x2
Thompson x2?
Need I go on?

Calzaghe as well. That said he dodged all the good quality Yanks. He never fought the true top guy in his division

Oh yea forgot about Calzaghe but there was no need to fight the yanks, he earnt more money with the Brits/Irish. Nobody really knows how he would have got on with them either as Eubank could comeback from anything that was coming to him. Not one yank fighter showed us that they could have done this type of thing when the going got tough?

Rexob wrote:

CaptainSpacerod wrote:He's a well educated chap who talks well but talk's cheap. He's clever enough to know that his dad is a fvcking halfwit with regard to business and shouldn't be let anywhere near a negotiating table. By indulging his dad's successful businessman fantasies he also conveniently provides himself with a ready made excuse for failing to sign up for meaningful fights.

He won't fight anybody who's anywhere near world level nor does he deserve to really based on his career so far.

English has set his son up with an ITV deal that no other so called professional promoter could even dream of getting to me this is a bold gesture to anybody and great business aquamin.

Who this guy?

davie wrote:

Rexob wrote:

CaptainSpacerod wrote:He's a well educated chap who talks well but talk's cheap. He's clever enough to know that his dad is a fvcking halfwit with regard to business and shouldn't be let anywhere near a negotiating table. By indulging his dad's successful businessman fantasies he also conveniently provides himself with a ready made excuse for failing to sign up for meaningful fights.

He won't fight anybody who's anywhere near world level nor does he deserve to really based on his career so far.

English has set his son up with an ITV deal that no other so called professional promoter could even dream of getting to me this is a bold gesture to anybody and great business aquamin.

Who this guy?

yeah that's him















B'stard.
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Rexob wrote:

davie wrote:

Rexob wrote:



English has set his son up with an ITV deal that no other so called professional promoter could even dream of getting to me this is a bold gesture to anybody and great business aquamin.

Who this guy?

yeah that's him















B'stard.
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No worries, we knew what you meant

Just can't miss an opportunity to be a smart arse

Rexob wrote:

Naandrew wrote:

Rexob wrote:
Eubank was the attraction not his opponents the fans went to see him it didnt matter who he was fighting, fans pay for tickets which means money and lots of it, Its prize fighting ffs, people seem to get mixed up with some rose tinted view of the sport and forget what its really about?

True but it still doesn't disguise the fact that Senior wanted no part of numerous world level fighters.

Jr will go the same way from the looks of things.

Benn x2
Watson x2
Collins x2
Thompson x2?
Need I go on?

The Watson fights were great but Watson wasn't world level. His fight with Mike McCallum fight shown what world level was.

When he fought Benn the first time Watson and Herol Graham were still considered better fighters.

Eubank publically said he would never fight Herol Graham ( who McCallum also beat)

Also Barry Hearn came up with excuses about not fighting Mike McCallum ( no money etc etc ) just like Eddie Hearn did with Quigg and Rigo when the fight could be made and does with numerous fighters.

When he was champion he also would not fight Nunn because he was southpaw and 6 foot 2.

Other fighters around when he was champion. Toney, Jones, Jackson, kalambay, McClellan.

He played the game well made a lot of money not fighting top fighters fair play to him he won't be the last to do that.

But junior has now ducked fights with Billy Joe Saunders again when it made sense
Last year. GGG and Hearn got him mandatory for Danny Jacobs.

Do people think this is going to be a success? I think it's going to bomb hard.

jameswilson wrote:Do people think this is going to be a success? I think it's going to bomb hard.

It's going to bomb spectacularly. There's a really interesting interview with Eddie on iFL released yesterday where he talks in depth about this (can't link it on my mobile due to the stupid YouTube app). Seems like the tickets haven't even gone on sale yet or the PPV price announced and it's only 4 weeks away! He absolutely rips Eubank Sr apart as well, it's worth a watch just for that.

Boxerbeetle wrote:

jameswilson wrote:Do people think this is going to be a success? I think it's going to bomb hard.

It's going to bomb spectacularly. There's a really interesting interview with Eddie on iFL released yesterday where he talks in depth about this (can't link it on my mobile due to the stupid YouTube app). Seems like the tickets haven't even gone on sale yet or the PPV price announced and it's only 4 weeks away! He absolutely rips Eubank Sr apart as well, it's worth a watch just for that.

It's this 21 mins in for about 20 minutes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHFLKetMPZY

Only but I watched it for. Was pretty good actually.

£20 is the price for this event. An outrageous price.

Apparently there will be an early bird offer. Jeez!

MrJasonM wrote:£20 is the price for this event. An outrageous price.

Apparently there will be an early bird offer. Jeez!

20 quid for the ITV PPV Surely not man!

Stuarty30 wrote:

MrJasonM wrote:£20 is the price for this event. An outrageous price.

Apparently there will be an early bird offer. Jeez!

20 quid for the ITV PPV Surely not man!

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisEubank/ ... 6983278592

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisEubank/ ... 3581414400

if it really is 20

And to think people were talking of Chwistopher fighting for 1.99...

Naandrew wrote:

Stuarty30 wrote:

MrJasonM wrote:£20 is the price for this event. An outrageous price.

Apparently there will be an early bird offer. Jeez!

20 quid for the ITV PPV Surely not man!

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisEubank/ ... 6983278592

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisEubank/ ... 3581414400

Jesus fuckin Christ that is wrong! This event will bomb spectacularly!

I just saw the £20 ppv tweets - absolutely ludicrous, the only thing I can think is they've lost the concept of the value of money. This is going to be disastrous for Eubank JRs career and boxing on ITV if it's true.

This will be lucky to do 5 figures in terms of buys at that price and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being cancelled. If that happens team Eubank will have no choice but to go cap in hand to BN or matchroom with very little bargaining power.

Setting themselves up for humiliation if this is true.

Of course it could just be a way of building publicity???? Maybe?????

Do we have a confirmed date for this fight yet? Any news on the undercard?

Cheers and have a great 2017

chad wrote:Do we have a confirmed date for this fight yet? Any news on the undercard?

Cheers and have a great 2017

I don't even think it's been confirmed has it? I saw a venue and date named but that appears to have vanished and the fight is meant to be on next month.

Seems a terrible time to test the water with a new PPV platform. Wlad Joshua will be massive and like the fight or not Haye Bellew will sell. Who is going to cough up more to see Eubank Jr in a nothing fight?

"Into prospective" ffs

And this clown wants to negotiate deals with hard nosed businessmen.

Does he even realise his whole fake persona just makes him a laughing stock ?

Finn wrote:Of course it could just be a way of building publicity???? Maybe?????

It doesn't seem to be building any publicity though. Outside of very boxing-specific media I've not seen anything mentioned about this fight or Eubank himself for ages. There was a fair bit of talk pre-Golovkin, but when that didn't happen he might as well have fallen off the face of the earth.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this fight doesn't come off.

jameswilson wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb and say this fight doesn't come off.

Same here

It's still not listed on this site. Has there actually been an official announcement of a date and venue with a presser ? You would expect eubank to tweet that out at least.

Tickets not on sale either also just a couple of weeks ago quinlan on Twitter said it was feb 4th that's not long to go.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RenoldQuinla ... 0061750272

Like Eddie Hearn says just watch the car crash happen

£20?
No official announcement supposedly five weeks out?
No undercard? Little prospect of any names on it?
Meaningless title dressed up to f##k?
Novice opponent with one noteworthy win against a very faded ex-champ?

ITV are going to get burned here