Chris Eubank vs Nigel Benn: The original rivalry between British boxing’s ‘real gladiators’ revisited | Boxing News

Nigel Ben and Chris Yabank identified a era of British boxing when sport and unique dispute were the national conversation.

Their children, Connor Ben and Chris Yabank Junior are re -competing with the family this week when they fight on Saturday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

During this period, when EUBANK SR and Benn SR were at the height of their fame and a bad reputation, I felt as a golden time for British boxing.

“Certainly,” said Michael Watson, a major figure in the life of EUBANK, Benn and boxing professions, Sky Sports.

Being part of it, Watson said: “It is something I enjoyed throughout my life.”

Watson defeated Ben when they fought in a tent that was built in Vinksbury Park and suffered from his terrible injuries when he lost to EUBANK in 1991.

EUBANK and Benn were special characters. Watson described them as “real wrestlers.”

“They are the real deal, blessed in the nature,” he said. “Nigel Ben – the wonderful punching power. Chris Yobank, is my heart and soul.

“People do not know Chris about the real himself, but he is a man of love and true personality. Nigel is the same way that fighters tend to be the best people on this planet, real masters.”

But the enmity between EUBANK and Benn in their fighting was real and fierce.

“Boxing is a job,” Watson said. “It is a job, this is how you go.

“This is a job

By the time he fought EUBANK and Benn for the first time, the perfect storm of the opposition characters was completely fully determined to conquer their opponent. I produced one of the great battles.

Ben was the hero of the medium weight in WBO and again, with that wild power, it seemed as if it could not be stopped when he met EUBANK in 1990.

“EUBANK appeared like anyone else I have seen in boxing. The fact that he was eccentric.” Dark trade And recently The last bellWho covered the battle.

“During the first minute, I had a feeling that something special would reveal. I didn’t think it would continue for a long time. Suddenly he hurts. He shook him, he could have stopped him.

“This classic Slovist was revealed and it was convincing to watch it. I had this feeling that these two men were going to a dark dark place.

“Violence … you can just feel it. It was a brutal will that both were.”

Yuank almost through his tongue when he criticized Ben Alawi in his jaw. He did not give anything and fought while Ben in the punches of huge strength.

“You can see that the eye of Nigel Ben had swollen. It seemed that he was almost seeing his eye.”

“EUBANK has passed several times. That was the first time that we started to understand that EUBANK, despite all his defection and effects, was actually a militant man with a chin made of granite. Because Benn hit him with some shots that would have stopped most of the fighters.”

Iyubanic Ben Ben was injured, put it on the other hand and forced the judgment to transfer it in the ninth round.

The match ended with the extreme emotion, on the full screen.

“I think you just need to take a look at the faces of the fighters to see the depths of the darkness in which they fell in that battle,” said Macray.

“Because they hated each other from the box office. But I think it was the battle itself that made boxing a strong thing in the 1990s.”

Their second battle ended in Old Trafford in 1993, with a draw, which Ben and many others felt worth winning. There was never a third battle, leaving their competition meaning without a solution.

“I think the enmity between Ben and Obank did not last for a long time,” said Macray.

“I think for Laban and Watson that they had a slice on their shoulder because they felt that EUBANK was giving up. He made them stupid.

“I think they wanted to prove the existence of a point against him and I think they wanted to harm him because the depth of hostility was very deep.”

They left their competition inherent in British sport that children fighting each other is a convincing proposal for names and the heritage of the family alone.

Another generation, but the same old battle.

Watch Chris EUBANK JR Vs Conor Benn on Saturday April 26, lives in the Sky SPORTS BOX window.