Re: Eubank Sr on Herol Graham sparring KO story (!)
Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 14:03
For someone so defence gifted bomber sounds punch drunk!!!
Eubank has openly said that he never fought Graham because he wasn't confident of beating him.Quixall wrote:I'm sure that Herol has a slightly different story !!coghaugen11 wrote:"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."
All i would say is that if Eubank was so confident of beating Herol, then why did he avoid fighting him ?
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.Parson Cross wrote:Chris Eubank quote "What's the point of fighting someone you can't hit ?"
remember when he came back against Johnson and people thought he was going to get hurt. Huge shock when he took him to schoolpalooka wrote:84-86, 85-84, 86-86 it was very close.