Chris Eubank Sr has rated how Carl Froch may have got on against the men he fought during his storied career.
Eubank Sr held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, beating the likes of Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Lindell Holmes along the way, though he famously lost to Froch’s long-term rival Joe Calzaghe.
He retired in 1998 with 45 wins from 52 fights and is ranked as one of the top few British super-middleweights of all time.
Speaking to Now Boxing, he started by discussing how a fight between Froch and and his former foe Benn might go.
“Any fight with Nigel Benn 100% depends on whether the opponent can absorb the hardest head punch they’ve ever been hit with, unless Benn went in with the attitude he went in with against Watson and Malinga, which was to throw at arms and elbows until burn-out, in a demented fashion, with no focus on defence.
“So whether Carl would absorb Nigel’s punch, I don’t know. But I doubt it. Carl isn’t the most finesse of boxers and doesn’t like a mover. He has long arms so he struggles inside. What did I possess? Dexterous foot movement and complexity of short punch. You can draw your own conclusion.”
He then claimed fellow rival Watson was physically unbeatable.
“I had to tap into the supernatural to beat him. Whether Carl has a Samurai sleeping inside of him, I don’t know, and I would doubt that.”
Finally, he rated his chances against Irish former world champion Steve Collins.
“I think Carl and Collins could be a messy war, but Carl has the better jab, better reach and better composure, so if he stood his ground and boxed and flurried, he could outbox Collins while not being outworked. So I would lean toward Froch on that one because Steve Collins couldn’t break an egg!”
Froch retired as world champion more than a decade ago but has recently shown interest in a ring return against Tyson Fury’s father, John, following the escalation of their war of words over social media.
