Watson was very average until the second Eubank fight, where he was leagues above anything we'd seen from him before.

Come on, all he had to do against Benn was tuck up. Nige was thee headless chicken against Logan and Watson.

Watson looked very stiff and one-paced against McCallum and really not difficult to pick off.

And Watson looked awful in the first Eubank fight when Eubank was there for the taking having lost 19lbs in four days and passed out the day before.

It wasn't until he started weight-training with Jimmy Tibbs to get his punches off sharper and harder, trained with the Arsenal football team to send his fitness into overdrive and used hypnosis techniques to get over the McCallum pounding that he looked like a world-beater - on that tragic night.

He wouldn't give Chris a moments rest on that tragic night, he'd slip, he'd throw a right hook, he'd follow it up with another right hook in the same place, he'd switch and throw a left hook to the body, then a left hook to the head, then stay on top of him and go again - just pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, pressuring, slipping, hooking, switching, non-stop, alnight. And everything Eubank hit Michael with, nothing, he kept on coming. But those hard arm punches would of been blocked by Winky Wright, and Wright would timed him with straighter punches. That style that night was devised specifically for Eubank, who pulled away or fell forward and didn't hold his hands up and needed those breaks he liked to pinch.


Watson only ever even looked world-class in the Benn fight and second Eubank fight, and it was only because he took advantage of each of their erratic flaws. Benn commiting himself first with no thought, hitting arms, gloves and elbows, leaving himself open for counters after swings had slammed the guard. And Eubank only ever able to fight in spurts.

Watson got over-rated on the Benn fight. He really did. Yes he appeared cool and precise, but Nige helped him appear cool and precise with the maniacal way he was fighting