Q: What tips would you give Chris for developing a KO punch?

Eubank: Technique and being relaxed.


Q: For todays youngster to defend himself what would you recommend the combat sport/art to get started?

Eg would starting off with a martial art like Karate be a good thing?
Go as far as you can go in that and then start boxing.

Or would that be a bad thing. Are there bad habits you can pick up while doing martial arts that you would struggle to get rid off if you then took up boxing.

Eubank: The most effective fighting style for self-defence is wrestling. Check it out

Q: What you mean watch the WWE?

Does that mean you dont recommend kids to take up boxing (The sport which you excelled at).

I know you said it was "barbaric" but its benefits are discipline and the training at least encourages physical health and confidence.

Eubank: It does do that. I do not discourage people from boxing what I say is, in terms of my own children for instance I'd prefer them not to box. Choose another sport because boxing is too tough, but the fact that it is tough is why it's good.
Now wrestling or grappling outside for self-defence or winning a fight in the street (which you should not be doing anyway), wrestling is the most effective fighting style and the type of wrestling is called grappling.

Q: Less competitors suffer death wrestling than they would do boxing. I think that most street fights end up like Ultimate Fighting rather than out and out wrestling.

Have you ever watched Ultimate Fighting Chris and do you find it entertaining or a worthy sport to take up? I personally think it looks far tougher than boxing.

I know that Ultimate Fighting is almost any style but would you say that Ultimate Fighting is almost a combination of kick boxing and wrestling most of the time?

Eubank: I think it is a combination of both fighting stance.
Watch it and find it entertaining most of the time, yes. Worthy, yes it maybe.

Q: Muhammad Ali started at 12,
Naseem Hamed started at 7
Audley Harrison started at 19

When is the best age to get kids into boxing?

Do you think that because Hamed started too early thats what made him sick of boxing before he turned 30.

Eubank: I started at 16, before 16 is good. 19 is late because if you look at Audley Harrison he's 31/32 years old and he's still not even in the middle of his quest. He should be coming to the end of his career now and he is not even in the middle stages of his career.

Naseem hasn't left boxing because he is sick of it, I suppose now he has just run in to the fact that it is very hard being on the wrong end of the punches, because he never really was. So sick of it, it's not that you are sick of it, it's whether you have the integrity to see your course through and your course isn't just what they say at the beginning or what they say during it is what they say at the end. You have got to finish like you started, strong whether you are winning or losing.