Chris Eubank Sr is a much-loved fighter from the golden generation of British middleweights and super-middleweights.
Eubank competed from 1985 to 1998 and held the WBO middleweight and then super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995. He remained undefeated for the first 10 years of his career and never lost at middleweight.
He stepped up to super-middleweight for epic contests with fellow Britons Nigel Benn and Michael Watson and the contests were broadcast on free to air TV, helping British boxing to peak in popularity in the 1990s.
He fought Benn and Watson twice each, drawing once with Benn and winning the other three fights, before then going on to lose to Steve Collins, twice, Joe Calzaghe and Carl Thompson, twice, before hanging up the gloves for good. Eubank is widely regarded as one of the best British fighters of all time.
Speaking on his own new YouTube Channel via X, Eubank Sr was asked who hit him the hardest in the boxing ring.
“No doubt. Nigel Benn. What is that dynamite?
How does that happen, when someone just has the ability to explode on you with their shots, so the impact of the shot is concussive, but that concusiveness, it stays for literally like two or three seconds, whereas a normal hard shot starts dissipating, or the pain of the shot, or the shock of it, starts dissipating immediately.”
Though long retired, Sr’s son, Chris Eubank Jr, has continued the family’s fighting tradition and has long been linked with a generational grudge match with Nigel’s son, Conor Benn, who recently announced he was free to fight again after a long-running saga around a failed drug test back in October 2022.
