Chris Eubank Sr. is notorious for his eccentric style and meticulous articulation of vocabulary, as well as his dedication to both the understanding of and abiding by the ‘warrior’s code’. Now, Eubank has taken his ethical approach in a more literary sense and outlined which fellow fighters he would choose to have his back in war.
Whilst Eubank was an intriguing character outside of the ring, he was a ruthless yet artistic machine out of it, famously maintaining a never-say-die attitude throughout his career and only ever being stopped in his final professional contest.
Wins over the likes of Nigel Benn and Michael Watson were a testament to the gritty but beautiful style of Eubank, forever showing a willingness to fight through the fire and the pain to get his hand raised over that of his rivals.
Despite hanging up the gloves in 1998, 58-year-old Eubank remains as one of the most recognisable figures in British boxing and is a name that the new generation of fight fans have grown attached to, with the help of numerous viral clips of Eubank post-retirement.
Here is 85 seconds of Chris Eubank being incredible on Celebrity Gogglebox.
Truly, his finest work. pic.twitter.com/zx5x4rARMA
— JOE (@JOE_co_uk) August 14, 2019
Now Eubank seeks to capitalize on his superstardom with the youth of today and has begun a YouTube channel, where he answers questions from the public.
In the maiden episode of ‘Call Chris Eubank’, the two-division world champion responded to a fans’ question of which three fighters he would like to have his back in war.
“The first person that I would have at my back is James Toney. He is an energy which has no harness. This is a very, scary man, who doesn’t use reason, and that is the only weapon we use, he doesn’t use this particular weapon.
“He will eat you. He will cook you. He will eat you in public, this guy. He has to have been one of the greatest middleweights of all time.”
“He is a beautiful example to choose of how not to behave, but if I were going to choose someone to go into battle, I wouldn’t need anybody else other than him, he is like me – he is a monster, only I am a kind of gentle man.
“Obviously, Mike Tyson. He has the same warrior spirit which doesn’t understand yield. We yield for nobody, no one.
“I watched that man in Memphis, Tennessee fight Lennox Lewis and listened to him say in the corner ‘I cannot fight this man, he is too big, he is too powerful’ and then got up and went out for the eighth round and allowed Lennox Lewis a clean kill.
“That is a man of heart, of substance, of integrity.
“Who is the third person that I would have with me in battle? It’s actually Floyd Mayweather, it is not for his fighting ability, it is for his strategic ability, being able to see how a fight can play out and see it before it happens – then do it.
“If it is an earthly war, I want to go for Floyd Mayweather Jr. because he knows.”
Readers can submit questions to the ‘Call Chris Eubank’ by sending a Whatsapp voice note to +44 7379 651620, with new episodes of the series set to be released regulary on both YouTube and Spotify.
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