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naz used to say that eubank saw him as a 15 year old vaulting over the ropes at the gym when he came up to spar with bomber graham, and how eubank stole all his moves.
but the other day i read a '96 interview with chris and he said "i taught naseem almost everything i knew, almost everything. he won't want to admit it, but i was his hero. his first hero was herol graham, but i strutted into the gym, strutted into the ring and knocked down herol for the first time in his life, naseem was watching open mouthed. this was just after i signed for barry hearn. naseem became a member of my entourage, i had a mobile phone and naseem would ring me up all the time for advise. he started walking like me, posing like me. we'd sit down and watch footage of my fights, my amateur fights, my gymnasium fights and my professional fights. if he was leaping the ropes when i was there, i didn't see him. i had 47 professional bouts and leaped the ropes every single time and never tripped once, i leaped the ropes on my professional debut in 1985 when i was boxing out of the bronx, three or four years before i ever met naseem so i certainly didn't copy anything from that kid."
also brendan ingle claimed that eubank tried stealing naz from him but that naz gave him the two fingers. eubank though said "i jokingly asked naseem out of the blue at the post fight party after the gary stretch fight 'naz, how do you fancy turning pro? train with me, ill promote you and manage you. we could travel the world together, have a great time' and he said something like 'yeah, wicked man, that sounds wicked', but i was only messing about. about a year later, naz asked if i would take him, but i said something along the lines of 'naz, i cant afford to lose one boxing match. i need to focus fully on my own career.' then about two years after that i asked him if he was interested and he just laughed."
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