did anyone watch it???
the reason im saying is that if you remember eubank butted sherry who then went into a fainting routine - which ended the fight.
the thing that got me ws there was only 9 fully completed rounds so the scores should have been in the 80s
but.......eubank won by split decison with scores in the 90s meaning that because most of 10th round had been completed the judges were able to add this round to the scoring???.......is this not illegal???
for the record i had eubank winning by if you add that 10th round by 96-93 but with those 2 points deducted then it was 94-93
ps: if any of yous watch the fight listen for the guy shouting "oscar , oscar" as sherry performance was right out of the juan coggi book vs frankie randall
eubank vs sherry on espn classic the other night
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NATHANAEL Wilson has never had a dad. And now that the hidden love child of former world boxing champion Chris Eubank is fast approaching 16, he wants to know why.
Nathanael, known to his friends as Nat, is Eubank's fifth child - a secret-son who the fighter turned celebrity has tried to conceal from the public.
After years of being ignored and spurned, Nat has decided to speak publicly about his heartache for the first time, in the hope of finally attracting the attention of his natural father.
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"The rejection is the hardest part of it all," says Nat, quietly.
"My father has acted like a two-faced hypocrite, but if he came to me and said sorry I'd give him the chance to explain. I just want to know why he has turned his back on me. I feel I've got a right to know."
Multi-millionaire Eubank has never acknowledged his oldest son - the result of a six-month romance with Nat's mum Cynthia in the late 80s.
As if that didn't hurt enough, four years ago when Nat tried to call his dad, the former boxer delivered a knockout blow telling him never to get in touch again.
"I tried ringing him when I was 12," explains Nat, who is the spitting image of his famous dad. "But his butler came on and said, 'Chris doesn't want you to ring back'.
"I was really hurt. I tore up his number. I took all his pictures out of my photo album. The man's got no morals. He tries to act like a saint, but he's like a little snake - even with that lisp he's like, 'sssssss'.
"I was watching him on TV in At Home With The Eubanks and he said, 'I would never do anything to hurt anyone'.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I just changed channels - I couldn't listen to him any more.
"He makes out he's a family man, but he turned his back on me. He left me and my mum to struggle while he drives around in his big cars and lives in a big house."
Today, the only link Nat has with the man he once idolised is an autographed photo given to him during a chance meeting nine years ago.
"I knew he was my dad and I used to watch him on TV when I was a kid," says Nat. "Mum has always been straight with me about what happened,
"When I was about six, my mum's friend took me to some event and my dad was there doing a publicity thing. He knew who I was straight away.
"He said, 'Is this Cynthia's son?' And I think he started crying.
Then he gave me a picture of himself and signed it, 'From the Champ'. I remember thinking, 'That's my dad'.
"I didn't know what to feel. I was so upset. It was the only time I've ever met him, or even spoken to him."
Eubank met Cynthia in a seafood restaurant in South London in June 1987, where she was working as a waitress.
"He wasn't really a big name then," says Cynthia, 42, who has built up a successful children's nursery business in Croydon, where she and Nat now live. "He asked me out and we went on a few dates - it was fun.
"Chris had already arranged to go to the States shortly after we met and at the same time I decided to travel to Jamaica to see relatives.
"I went to stay with my dad in New York and Chris was living in The Bronx, so we hooked up and dated for six months."
One night, when they were taking a taxi home from an exclusive Manhattan party, the couple had a huge row.
Soon after the bust-up Cynthia realised she was pregnant. But when she told Eubank, he dumped her. She says: "If there was anything between us it ended that night after the party. So to find out I was pregnant was a shock.
"I told Chris as soon as I knew. Initially he was shocked, but then he just wasn't interested.
"He never said anything positive about me having a baby, or him having a son - it was something his career didn't allow at the time.
Cynthia returned to England where she gave birth to Nat. They lived in a flat in Brixton, South London, but it was tough making ends meet.
The difference between their modest lifestyle and Eubank's lavish one couldn't have been more marked
W HILE he drove around in a flashy £200,000 Aston Martin sports car, Cynthia had to take their son to school in a battered old Ford Fiesta.
"I accepted that Chris didn't want anything to do with us," says Cynthia.
"It was painful - you just don't think a person can have a heart like that. But all I knew was that I had two jobs and was struggling to support my son while Chris was rolling in money.
"Nat was coming up to 18 months old when I first saw Chris boxing on TV. So I looked in the paper and found details of his coaching team."
But her attempts to get in touch with her old boyfriend fell on deaf ears.
She recalls, "His manager told me Chris had said he didn't even know me. My hurt became anger. I thought he not only denies he has a child, but he's denying even knowing me."
He only gave in when Cynthia contacted lawyers and came up with the DNA proof.
Eubank, who is thought to have amassed a fortune of more than £10million during his career, forked out a lump sum of around £30,000 to end the maintenance action. Effectively, he washed his hands of Nat.
Chris now lives with his wife Karron and their four children in a £2.5million mock-Tudor home in Brighton, East Sussex.
Two years ago he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and in Louis Theroux's series.
And last year, his family appeared on their own Channel 5 reality TV show, At Home With The Eubanks. It all reinforced his status as one of our best-loved celebrities. But not everyone is won over by Chris's eccentric charm.
"He's an idiot. He's a circus clown," says Nat, mimicking the famous lisp, "Cwisss Euubank," before bursting into laughter.
"I admit, he was quite funny on TV and I saw a little bit of me in him - that was amazing!
"But he treats his kids a bit bad. He cut off one kid's hair for being naughty, I thought that was wrong. And he's into old traditions and tough on discipline. He thinks the woman should be in the kitchen.
"He spends thousands on his own clothes, but his kids look a bit scruffy. For someone of his tastes, he should dress his children better. I think he's just selfish. He's been selfish with me and my mum."
Nat sighs, then adds wistfully, "I do sometimes think things could have been different."
He might never have known his dad, but Nat, who has a four-year-old half-brother called Jared, shares many of his father's mannerisms.
He even took up boxing, but after a few training sessions decided it wasn't for him.
NAT now attends a drama school in London, but his main passion lies in hip hop and garage music - he dreams of becoming an MC.
"A few months ago, my dad was at the train station outside my school," recalls Nat.
"One of the boys ran up to him and said, 'Have you got a son called Nathanael?' He said, 'I've never heard of him in my life'. It hurts that even my friends know my own dad doesn't want anything to do with me.
"He knows who I am, he knows what school I go to, but he has never been in touch. I wrote to him when I was 11 and sent him a school photo and asked him whether he ever comes to Croydon.
"I want to know why he has never been in touch. I do think I've missed out. I don't really have a role model, apart from my uncles."
Cynthia has her own theory about why Eubank has turned his back so forcibly on Nat.
"Chris married a white girl, so he could live the life of an English gentleman," she says.
"I've come to the conclusion that Chris doesn't like who he is and because of this he doesn't want a replica of himself.
"He doesn't want a black child - a black child would represent him.
"Animals treat their young better than he's treated his son."
A friend of the boxer said last night: "Chris has never made any secret of the fact that Nathanael is his child. He believes he has made proper provision for the upbringing of his son.
"His relationship with Cynthia was well before he married his wife Karron. And she is fully aware of all of this.
"He believes that in the circumstances he has acted responsibly and as honourably as possible."