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It doesn't matter how scary someone may seem - they have two legs, two arms and a heartbeat just like me. There's no reason why I wouldn't want to fight anybody.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Arms
Heartbeat
Legs
No Reason
Scary
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Outside boxing, I did well in cross country competitions and I won a schoolboys' doubles badminton tournament at once. I was pleased because it was a hobby to me.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Badminton
Competitions
Cross
Cross Country
Doubles
Pleased
Tournament
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Saunders didn't beat me. I wasn't battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much because it was my first 12-round fight.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Battered
Pacing
Myself Fight Me
Pressing
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Golovkin is the No 1 name on my list. People put this guy's name so high. But I know I can beat him. I know that I have the tools and the style to take this guy out.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Tools
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There is a lot of pressure because of what my father achieved and everyone is expecting so much, but that gives me that extra drive in the gym every day to graft hard.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Expecting
Achieved
Me Day Father
Extra
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I don't like to give predictions but I am the type of fighter who tries to stop his man every time, and that's why I'm such a fan favourite. People know I do the business.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Fighter
Predictions
Time Business Man
Tries
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If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Tough
Beating
Meant
Corner
Gets
Sign
Throw
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I always stayed on top of my schoolwork. I did it because I had to and because I had a strict father. He made sure I did my homework and told me not to mess around in class.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Homework
Mess
Schoolwork
Strict
Father Me Always
Stayed
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I have trained on and off with Floyd and his father for many years now and I've learned a lot. His work ethic is second to none and it's great being around him and the 'Money Team.'
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Work Ethic
Work Money Great
Ethic
Floyd
On And Off
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I'm fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I'm not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Life Best Myself
Comfortably
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Once I realised what boxing was, I understood - this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn't have the same spice.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Competition
Football Field
Realised
Rugby
Ultimate
Understood
Box
Spice
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Vegas is a wonderful place and there are a lot of things going on over there, it's a great place to have some fun, but it is also one of the best places in the world to train and to box.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Vegas
Best Great World
Great Place
Wonderful Place
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Predominantly training myself for so long worked, I had great success. But if I had someone there training me day-in day-out from an early age? It could have been a whole different story.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Great Success
Training
Day-Out
Different Story
Early Age
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Some people call me arrogant and boo me but I love it, because at least they're buying tickets. Meanwhile, other people are thinking, 'wow, this guy's different, I'll come and see him again.'
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Arrogant
Buying
Tickets
Love Thinking Me
Boo
Meanwhile
Some People
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To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Another Man
Fighter
High Level
Sparring
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There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Sparring
Between
Big Difference
Part
Possible
Fight
Difference
Important Part
Regularly
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This is boxing. As fighters we know the risks, we know we are risking our health everytime you step into the ring, but it's a risk we are willing to take because we know with those risks come great reward.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Great Reward
Everytime
Fighters
Reward
Risking
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If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Determination
Hunger
Champions
Option
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Boxing is a business. I'm not going to say I would never work with people again because we have had disagreements in the past. So if it makes money it makes sense. That doesn't mean we won't agree again in the future.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Mean
Past
People
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I look up to my father, he's done what he's done, and I want to emulate his achievements and become as successful as he was. But I have to prove myself to the boxing community and to myself - that's the most important thing.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Emulate
Prove
Successful
Achievements
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I've never wanted to be your average Joe. I've always wanted to stand out from the crowd - to be someone looked at and admired, and scrutinised. I'd much rather be scrutinised or criticised than have no one look at me at all.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Always Your Me
Admired
Joe
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You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Fitness
Bags
Combat
One On One
Pads
True Knowledge
Experience Knowledge Man
Weights
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For my training camp against George Groves my main sparring partner was a 6ft 7inch cruiserweight who fought nothing like George. It was just wrong. Wrong preparation. I was as fit as could be, but strategically I didn't prepare right.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Preparation
Sparring
Fought
Partner
Strategically
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I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you make mistakes. It's a mental game, it's a chess match, you've got to think, you've got to strategise and make tactical decisions.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Chess
Tactical
Charged
Emotionally
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As an amateur, I trained in some real hard schools of knocks. In Cuba, they would have judges on three sides of the ring just for sparring sessions. They train under exactly the same conditions as they fight, and it was a great experience.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Conditions
Cuba
Sides
Sparring
Exactly The Same
Great Experience
Judges
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Obviously, in the buildup to some fights, there's animosity and testosterone and banter. But at the end of the day, we all understand that this is a business, just two men who are trying to further their careers and provide for their families.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Animosity
Careers
Testosterone
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I got cut against Groves, and I couldn't see out of my eye most of the fight but it didn't hurt. Groves probably weighed 13 1/2 stone whereas I weighed 12. But he never buzzed me. It was just that cut, which looked so bad, with blood everywhere.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Weighed
Whereas
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I see myself as the best fighter in the world and that's because I have to. There can't be any other way. I can't go into a fight with the other names that are around my weight, who want the same as me, and not believe that I'm better than them.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Fighter
Names
Best Myself Believe
Any Other Way
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From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Big Deal
Boxing
Curiosity
Needed
Young Age
Age Dad Me
Option
Sport
Punches
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It's definitely hard to live up to expectation. Especially early in my career, everyone was expecting so much from me, everyone was comparing me to my father. They didn't understand that they're comparing me to a world champion, which is very unfair as a novice.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Unfair
World Champion Me
Comparing
Expectation
Novice
World Champion
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Some fighters lose and their spirits are forever broken. A champion comes back stronger. If you're constantly dwelling on the past, 'I could have done that, I should have done this,' it doesn't help. You have to look at the situation intellectually and learn from it.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Broken
Dwelling
Forever
Stronger
Fighters
Intellectually
Spirits
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I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't let anything like that happen to me, I've got too many goals, too much ambition in the sport. We're looking to fight for a world title this year.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Sports
Ambition
Fighting
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The only time I've ever been knocked out in my entire life was in a rugby game when I was about 13. I used to play on the wing. The opposing winger has the ball in his hand and he's running full speed at me. I go down to tackle him and he jumps up and his knee hits my temple.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Only Time
Opposing
Rugby
Speed
Life Time Game
Entire Life
Jumps
Tackle
Temple
Wing
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I have fought fighters in the past who I don't like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he's done, whatever he's said, you can't be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Dislike
Fighters
Fought
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If people knew what I have sacrificed then they'd understand why I put so much into every fight. This has pretty much been my life for as long as I can remember and the work that has been put in to make sure that I become the best fighter in the world means that there can't be no other way.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Life Best Work
Sacrificed
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I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank's son - inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Noticing
Streets
Dad Me People
Dad Me Important
Certain Way
Chris
Treating
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With my fight style - speed and volume punching - it would be an amazing fight. Golovkin is a come-forward fighter. It would be fireworks, a fight that the fans would enjoy. Because of my style, I would stop him due to the pure amount of punches. Whether it's a cut or he gets tired, stopping him would definitely be on the cards.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Cards
Fighter
Fireworks
Punching
Speed
Stopping
Volume
Due
Punches
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There was always a lot of pressure - I fought on Channel 5 in my first fight and got two million views - but luckily I'm the kind of person who thrives under pressure. I use it to fuel my performances and training, knowing that all eyes are on me and that there's a lot to live up to. It made me harder, tougher and more determined.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Determined
Fuel
Thrive
Views
Channel
Fought
Luckily
Tougher
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I have an amazing fan base. I also have an amazing amount of haters: believe who don't believe, people who don't want me to succeed. I don't really mind having those people around. If anything it's actually a good thing for me because it keeps me in the gym, keeps me working hard - knowing there are people out there who don't want me to succeed.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Fan Base
Good Thing
Haters
Working Hard
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In England I played everything - swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket - all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Sports
Athletics
Badminton
Boxing
Brighton
Cricket
England
Football
Ran
Rugby
States
Stuff
Swimming
Track
Played
Bit
Jump
Mainly
Point
Teams
Wing
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I am not going to sell my soul for a fight. Some promoters don't believe in the philosophy that the fighters get the lion's share of a fight. They think they should be getting the lion's share for making the calls, for sitting on the chairs and discussing what is going to happen on the night. My father and I are the fighters - we don't believe in that.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Believe
Father
Philosophy
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Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Opinion
World
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Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Opportunity
Forever
Mean
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I have the final say in the business side of my boxer's career. But as far as me being in the meetings every day, the back and forth of the paperwork and stuff like that, I have got a job to do. I am in the gym every day. The fighting lifestyle is an unforgiving one. You want to keep yourself as focussed and stress - free as possible. I have a team who focus on the more complicated aspects, on the business side of boxing, which I don't need to get myself involved in. I think I am involved in the business as much as I need to be.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Stress
Team
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Boxing is what you make it. If you want to make it exciting, if you want to make it something where people are going to look and say, "Wow! Look at the guy. Who does he think he is?" You can do that. If you just want to go in there, punch each other, and then shake hands at the end of the night. You can do that, too. I know what I would rather pay money to see. Some people enjoy it, some despise it. Whether people like it or hate it, they still buy a ticket. We want boxing to be centre stage and you can't have that with guys who don't excite.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Hate
Night
Thinking
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Once you are in that ring things happen that you don't expect. There is nothing you can plan for. At the end of the day, you've just got to go in there and feel the guy's spirit. You've got to listen to him breathe, look into his eyes, feel his power and feel his speed. You can't think too much. It is instinctive. It is on-the-fly. But at the same time I go in there and I think it doesn't matter what this guy does, I'm going to have my way. In whatever situation we end up, I am always going to come out on top. That is the one thing that is the same for every single fight.
Chris Eubank, Jr. / Professional Boxer
Eye
Fighting
Thinking
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