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Given many "son of" greats have been hyped up over the years, have any ever gone on to have HOF career themselves, and if not, who fared best?

I never thought I'd say this but could it be Chavez Jr, or potentially even Eubank Jr? (Edit: Eubank Sr not yet in the HOF but probably will make it in the future).

johnswan1 wrote:Given many "son of" greats have been hyped up over the years, have any ever gone on to have HOF career themselves, and if not, who fared best?

I never thought I'd say this but could it be Chavez Jr, or potentially even Eubank Jr? (Edit: Eubank Sr not yet in the HOF but probably will make it in the future).

I doubt Sr will get into the HOF.

He's on this years ballot paper and it's not a particularly strong year. Each voter can nominate 5 but only 3 get inducted.

mickey1975 wrote:

johnswan1 wrote:Given many "son of" greats have been hyped up over the years, have any ever gone on to have HOF career themselves, and if not, who fared best?

I never thought I'd say this but could it be Chavez Jr, or potentially even Eubank Jr? (Edit: Eubank Sr not yet in the HOF but probably will make it in the future).

I doubt Sr will get into the HOF.

Which would be a shame. As much as I love Finbar, if he can get in then 'English' should as well.

johnswan1 wrote:He's on this years ballot paper and it's not a particularly strong year. Each voter can nominate 5 but only 3 get inducted.

Thanks for posting that, interesting to see.

I'd say there are easily 5 more deserving guys than Eubank on that list.

He's not getting in from that line up.

I'd say Chavez off the top of my head. There'll be one or two about. I can see Ricky Hatton's little lad(s) being decent one day, if he wanted to be. Just a hunch, with all due respect.