Eubank's style
Posted: 26 May 2009, 12:57
Watching his sparring with Rod Douglas in '87 at the old gym on Carnaby Street, he's a duck-weave pressure fighter!
Little ring movement, lots of head movement, flurry after flurry. Always looking for the left hook. Interesting viewing.
Watching his US-based early pro fights on YouTube from a few years before, he's an upright jab-right artist, all feet.
(Those Eubank-Douglas sessions were highly competitive, btw, with Douglas getting the upper hand. -Eubank does a lot of yabbering here and there seemingly about how Rod should be sparring.)
In all of this earlier footage of Eubank, it seems he had better basic skill-sets than you'd think, looking at the awkward loose style he used in his W-Champ fights.
Does anybody happen to have any pre-champ UK-based Eubank bouts for download, or have you seen any recently?
I'm interested in the style he used/change of style..
Little ring movement, lots of head movement, flurry after flurry. Always looking for the left hook. Interesting viewing.
Watching his US-based early pro fights on YouTube from a few years before, he's an upright jab-right artist, all feet.
(Those Eubank-Douglas sessions were highly competitive, btw, with Douglas getting the upper hand. -Eubank does a lot of yabbering here and there seemingly about how Rod should be sparring.)
In all of this earlier footage of Eubank, it seems he had better basic skill-sets than you'd think, looking at the awkward loose style he used in his W-Champ fights.
Does anybody happen to have any pre-champ UK-based Eubank bouts for download, or have you seen any recently?
I'm interested in the style he used/change of style..