Saturday Night Boxing - Eubank Jr Vs Blackwell

[symyjym]

In addition to my post above, I was really surprised, when on more than one occasion, the commentator said, this fight is too close to call, when for my money at least, Eubank won pretty much every round, and was ahead by a country mile, by the time the referee finally stopped it.

Yep same here, they were always mentioning Jr getting tired, or Blackwell would get one punch in, and by the time they exagerated what a good punch it was Eubanks had got another 6 solid punches in.

 

[BigGully]

Yep same here, they were always mentioning Jr getting tired, or Blackwell would get one punch in, and by the time they exagerated what a good punch it was Eubanks had got another 6 solid punches in.

Same here, whenever Blackwell made a successful jab, it was if he had Eubank wobbling with a knock out punch, all a bit odd .................

 

[StonehamPark]

Let's hope so, hard to see how he wasn't let down by a lot of people, the ref, his own corner

More pressure on his corner imo.
For the ref, Blackwell was still able to defend himself and showed no sign of wobbling, he was just getting outclassed.
By round 7, after the 3 killer uppercuts in a row, Blackwells corner should have thrown the towel in.
Blackwell was losing 5-1 and showed no signs of knocking Jr out and no chance of winning on points, only getting beaten up further.
Corner more to blame than the ref, only my opinion.

 

[Mackenzie]

Yep same here, they were always mentioning Jr getting tired, or Blackwell would get one punch in, and by the time they exagerated what a good punch it was Eubanks had got another 6 solid punches in.

The Eubank's have never been liked by the boxing fraternity. Some of it is justified I guess, but much of what Snr says is pretty much spot on. Perhaps we just notice it more because they are (were) Brighton fighters, but there is often a bias against them in commentary.

 

[BensGrandad]

Imo, drawn the first, Blackwell the second, then Jr took every round from then on.
Commentators saying the fight being close was ridiculous, maybe in the first 2 rounds, but after that it was a walk over.

Eubank started every round well, had a rest, then finished strongly and as such I thought that he may have just edged the first round other than that I agree with your assessment. This tactic of Eubanks is designed to catch the judges eye and stay in their mind when scoring.

 

[StonehamPark]

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[symyjym]

The Eubank's have never been liked by the boxing fraternity. Some of it is justified I guess, but much of what Snr says is pretty much spot on. Perhaps we just notice it more because they are (were) Brighton fighters, but there is often a bias against them in commentary.

Yep, I couldn't believe my ears when they were saying he would never be world class. He actually looks a lot better in attack mode than his dad was.

Eubanks is quirky and a bit Marmite but he always speaks respectfully. It seemed like everyone was in the Fury camp last night because he is the scene to be part of at the moment..

 

[marlowe]

Chris is seen as a clown but he has come out of this very well - he was right to attempt to stop the fight and put so much pressure on the ref.

The Eubank's have never been liked by the boxing fraternity. Some of it is justified I guess, but much of what Snr says is pretty much spot on.

I do think Chris Snr is a bit of a clown, but that doesn’t diminish him in any way in my eyes, if anything the opposite. At least he comes across as having decent values unlike other clowns I could mention and in the league of clowns he’s certainly no John Wayne Gacy. As far as his public statements are concerned I think he suffers a lot from not being as articulate as he believes the message he is trying to convey demands. Sometimes you can really see him struggling to find the right words, or possibly the words he would prefer to use rather than simpler words which would convey the message just as well. Because of this I think he is often misinterpreted and misunderstood. I think he is very aware of the fact that he wasn’t afforded the luxury of a good education and tries a bit too hard to break people’s stereotype of how a boxer should be, but with the limitations of what his education has given him. Joey Barton is the footballing equivalent who also comes in for a lot of stick. But I’d rather see people like Eubank Sr and Barton who are prepared to occasionally make tits of themselves with their intellectual posturing rather than people like Tyson Furey or countless footballers too numerous to mention whose values, behaviour and public statements are often quite objectionable.
At least it shows they care and think about things rather than just basking in their wealth.

 

[Megazone]

 

[marlowe]

I didn't have a clue who Billy Joe Saunders was until I saw him last night, but my immediate opinion of him was that he was more than a bit of a tit. I thought his comments pre fight about him really wanting Blackwell to knock Eubank Jr "out spark cold" were quite distasteful even before what happened, happened. I think for a boxer to wish that outcome on another boxer shows the quality of the man. Boxers, more than anyone will be aware of the very serious risks that boxing poses, so for a boxer to come out with a statement like that about another boxer he is not even fighting himself is not really on. Saying it about an opponent, while still not acceptable, is a little more understandable and excusable as part of the pre match tension and hype. I hope in the light of what happened to his friend he'll try and refrain from expressing his wishes so publicly in future. How would he be feeling now after his comments if it was Eubank Jnr lying in an induced coma instead of Blackwell.

 

[hopkins]

I didn't have a clue who Billy Joe Saunders was until I saw him last night

Why are you on a boxing thread then ?

 

[marlowe]

I didn't have a clue who Billy Joe Saunders was until I saw him last night

Why are you on a boxing thread then ?

Because I watched last night's fight and also because I used to watch Eubank Snr in his heyday, but since boxing was appropriated by Sky, to which I am not a subscriber I stopped following it and was therefore not as "in the know" as I might have been had I determined to have kept abreast of everything that went on in the world of boxing regardless. Last night's channel 5 broadcast afforded me the opportunity to watch not only a local fighter but also the son of Eubank Snr, which would normally have been denied me due to my reluctance to pay a Sky subscription. As a result of watching last night's fight and hearing of it's repercussions, I thought, that at the very least, it granted me the privilege of being permitted to comment on that fight and particularly on a thread devoted to it, in spite of my limited knowledge of current boxing events. Of course there are those that might disagree.

 

[Marshy]

i just couldn't believe the pundits thought that Eubank had not won every round, Blackwell was beaten up from the very start.

I assume Richie Woodall the commentator has something against the Eubanks... Oh right yes his Dad beat him...

Hope Blackwell makes a full and speedy recovery

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

hindsight is a wonderful thing as they say

if the fight had been stopped 3 or 4 rounds earlier,I'm sure some would have said that was early

prime example being Benn against McCellan

very sad news indeed,but boxing is a brutal sport

my lad boxes and I can't say I'm not worried

fingers crossed for a full recovery

 

[BigGully]

I do think Chris Snr is a bit of a clown,

The thing with Eubank senior is that this is actually what he is like in real life and he not contrived in anyway.

I knew (through an early sponsor) Eubank back at the very beginning of his career 1989'sh, he was an eccentric then, but always very affable, he is slightly odd but generally a decent enough bloke, but what you see on TV, driving his truck, roaming the streets of Brighton is genuinely how he is, so I like that.

What has stayed with me was that he absolutely hated his ankles, he spoke in depth to me how he felt they were just sooo skinny, ask him and I am guessing he will tell you

Work that one out, of all the insecurities any of us might have Chris Eubanks was his ankles !!!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Because I watched last night's fight and also because I used to watch Eubank Snr in his heyday, but since boxing was appropriated by Sky, to which I am not a subscriber I stopped following it and was therefore not as "in the know" as I might have been had I determined to have kept abreast of everything that went on in the world of boxing regardless. Last night's channel 5 broadcast afforded me the opportunity to watch not only a local fighter but also the son of Eubank Snr, which would normally have been denied me due to my reluctance to pay a Sky subscription. As a result of watching last night's fight and hearing of it's repercussions, I thought, that at the very least, it granted me the privilege of being permitted to comment on that fight and particularly on a thread devoted to it, in spite of my limited knowledge of current boxing events. Of course there are those that might disagree.

Amen.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think the Eubank camp called it completely right when they said that Blackwell had a heart that was WAY too big for his boxing talent. Lad was clearly never going to quit, so his corner and/or the referee owed him a duty of care to make him do so a few rounds earlier than the doctor was called in.

 

[BensGrandad]

The ironic thing is had his eye not closed so that he was unable to see out of it the doctor wouldmt have been called.

 

[dangull]

The ironic thing is had his eye not closed so that he was unable to see out of it the doctor wouldmt have been called.

Very true. If it wasn't for his swollen eye and his nose was bleeding badly throughout the fight, the damage to his brain could have got worse, with the obvious results that would have caused.

 

[BensGrandad]

Would it be impracticable for the doctor to have a look at the end of the round when ever there is blood shed. In his case the corner stemmed the blood flow at the end of each round until Eubank caught him again.