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Re: Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn
This was one of the best fights I’ve ever seen.
The main thing to know is this
These guys just knocked off a few years of their lives to give us this fight and I noticed not one Saddo member said anything on Eubank being hospitalized.
It's amazing how two guys born into wealth, can fight like they were born into poverty.
I didn't even realize that they wore the same colors as their dads wore in 1990.
That's some homage.
And this ?
The most gangsta shit ever
Total Cinema.
I was waiting for Eubank Snr to take out Benn Sr with a steel chair... fuck it, if we're gonna go WWE then go 4 it 100%
And Snr didn't steal the limelight from Jnr. He was more of a hypeman than the main attraction.
It's very clear Snr has suffered a lot the last few yrs, the loss of a son and brother. Maybe yesterday he realized he's still a father and needs to back his son and it's Johnny Nelson who is largely responsible for Snr coming because it was Nelson who had an hour long chat on Friday with Snr to get him to change his mind.
The whole entire build up was just epic
Starting with Egg-gate then Eddie throwing everything at Eubank, hitting him with a draining re-hydration clause, then a 500k fine for missing weight by 0.05 pounds, then shrinking the ring, then send in Billy Joe Saunders to piss Jnr off
So Eubank Jnr was massively compromised. They tried to take the water from him and he double gloved it to keep drinking. That tells me he was pretty close to organ failure at some point during the last hours of that weight cut. No surprise he's spending a few days in the hospital. He can’t make 160 safely, let alone the rehydration clause and they STILL couldn’t get it done.
Eubank beat the system and Eubank beating Matchroom's antic's is good for boxing.
Eddie is now saying Jnr should drop even more weight for the rematch ? What a piece of shit. This guy seems to want Jnr's blood.
When Sr was throwing a fit about Jr having to kill himself to make 160. Well, he wasn't wrong. Benn looked great precisely because he didn’t have to cut weight.
And Sr repeated this point he's been saying for years after the fight.
As to fight, not many jabs or any kind of finesse. It was just a brutal, brutal war of attrition. The smaller guy did most of the serious damage, the bigger guy controlled the fight and landed more, the bigger weight drained guy fought harder at the finish. Experience and size made the difference.
Despite being the smaller man Benn was more dangerous on the outside as Jnr could get caught with Benn's sudden burst of punches. But Eubank was able to start pushing Benn backwards to the ropes with his body to limit Benn's movement with his flurries. Where as Benn was putting so much into his hooks that he was zapping his own energy quicker than necessary....especially when he was missing.
Benn needs to find a way to compose himself in the ring, to use his energy wisely.
And that's the main thing he needs - COMPOSURE.
He has a high-risk high-energy style, but he needs to learn to slow things down. In the 12th round, he looked like he was fighting off pure instinct and the only thing holding him up was his conditioning.
But for an inactive welterweight fighting a middleweight to not get dropped and show the chin he did ? That's impressive. I'm not saying he'll be "happy" with his performance as ultimately he'll be disappointed that he lost but that fact alone says something about his and heart.
I actually think Benn is the bigger talent, but the bigger talent doesn't always come out on top. He has a style than can overwhelm a fighter, if they're not good enough, you've got to take away his tenacity and enthusiasm by counterpunching.
He really needs to stop jumping in throwing 1-2s like nothing will come back because better fighters will stay in the pocket, stay sharp, and detonate him out the ring or they’ll counter his reckless attacks so many times they'll make Benn second guess himself. Honestly, Benn might be the first fighter I've seen who telegraph feints (lol)
But Benn showed he's more than the heavy bag champ of the world. Don't waste time on a vendetta with Jnr instead move back down to 147. Outside of Boots who Benn doesn't want to see, not even on TV. I think he can do some damage down there,
I’ve never been a fan of when they give rounds to power punching and cleaner shots over volume and work rate. So I’m happy with the decision. Power punching already has the benefit of discouraging your opponent from throwing more punches, dropping them or potentially knocking them out. They don’t need the benefit of the doubt in scoring.
All in all, this fight was great coz they're kind of made for each other, they met in the middle. Eubank Jr is a faded force (and he was never a great fighter even at his physical peak) and Conor, despite being game, physically strong and super fit, is pretty raw and novice like and yet, in that middle ground between the two, it worked out that they're each other's perfect dance partners to create a classic.
Eubank Jnr is back with his dad and he’s won the biggest fight of his career by gutting out a victory when he was drained. He should bow out. He bull dozed his way to a win, even if his power wasn’t there due to the weight drain but both guys left it in the ring, and I'm exhausted lol
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Originally Posted by Denilson3.0
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