Chris Eubank senior on his new YouTube channel has a new show called ‘Call Chris Eubank’ and it is frankly brilliant, class stuff on it so far.
Out of any former world champion fighter, the only thing that comes close to it is probably Froch’s channel and show, as well as Andre Ward’s and Mike Tyson’s (which is on hold for now).
Carl Froch tried to surprise Eubank senior on the show and then eventually let Eubank senior know it was him, saying:
“Hello, Mr. Christopher Livingstone Eubank Sr. It’s Mr. Carl Froch, the Cobra, former unified super middleweight world boxing champion and International Boxing Hall of Famer. I’d like to know how it felt walking your son, Chris Eubank Jr., out at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of over 60,000 fans. How did that feel? And how did it feel when he got his hand raised at the end and won that long-awaited match against Conor Benn?”
To which Eubank senior replied:
“Thank you sincerely for the question, Mr. Froch. How did it feel during the ring walk? Spine-tingling. I once heard my friend Piers Morgan say “spine-tingling.” Only when the referee said “box” did I think, “Okay, it’s on.” Everything was telling me it wasn’t going to happen, like three years ago. What Junior has done is establish himself as a legend in his own time. What’s more, he did it by himself. For the last four years, we’ve hardly been in touch because I was so sure he was going the wrong way. When the decision was made in his favor, I thought, “Is this really happening?” My son is being given the championship of the hearts of the people. He forced himself to do it his way, with a team I didn’t believe in. With all my thoughts about him doing it the wrong way, what could be more beautiful than my son becoming a legend in his own time? He was in a toe-to-toe fight from round six to round 12. In those last two rounds, he stayed in the pocket, in the fire. In doing this, I truly feel like the luckiest man on earth. Junior is now a prince. Everything he’s done, every mistake he’s made, will be forgiven, as I’ve already forgiven him. That performance ensures it. I thought I had lost my son in spirit four years ago. He shot a little film in Brixton, with crowds shouting “Rastafari, Rastafari,” which is just so beautiful.”
Two very different characters but two brilliant characters in boxing in their own way.
Both were super-middleweights too, real blood and guts merchants.
It would have been an epic fight if it happened.
We still think Froch could be tempted back for a Joe Calzaghe fight but the money would have to be huge for both.
