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https://twitter.com/rhysmgale/status/965006205495201792
I could watch this over and over for hours and still laugh every time
That is awesome, missed all the post fight stuff as we back to playing cards. Superb from Naz
https://twitter.com/rhysmgale/status/965006205495201792
I could watch this over and over for hours and still laugh every time
https://streamable.com/1d3aqEspecially liked the part where he said at this level you need a get of jail punch - Eubank doesn't have it.
Think Naz has been out of the limelight for too long and needed some attention, but at the same time he had some valid points.
Hopefully this has burst JRs bubble and knocks him down a peg or two, he needs someone in his corner who he respects enough to actually listen too when things aren't going his way. He never has a plan B.
...so he should have tried to pick Groves off with jabs and grind a points finish...
Keyword in my post.. "tried" . He has the hand speed, so he should be able to stick a basic jab on someone like Groves. Instead he kept going for the jab to the body and leaving himself wide open...Why does Stewart Downing just not play like Messi? Eubank couldn't just pick Groves off, he doesn't have the ability to do it. Eubank has the hand speed and energy that will beat average fighters but when he faces elite fighters he lacks the technical ability or tactical nous to out box them nor does he have the power to KO them.
That KSI fight was awsome!
Doesn't help when eubank didn't use a trainerKeyword in my post.. "tried" . He has the hand speed, so he should be able to stick a basic jab on someone like Groves. Instead he kept going for the jab to the body and leaving himself wide open...
Not a huge fan of either but I have to agree with the excellent 5 live podcast summing the fight up. The fight is going to be wrongly remembered as a Groves master class where in fact it wasn’t like that at all. Eubank was as poor as I can ever remember seeing someone fight at that level in 20 years. A stone lighter, less experience and throwing punches like he had just left the pub but Groves couldn’t punish him for it. At times Eubanks punches were so wild he was almost doubling himself over and Groves himself did very little to trouble him.
Eubank was god awful but groves was bang average, so I don’t see much going forward for Eubank. The podcast is well worth a listen, explaining how utterly devoid of a game plan they were and how much the kid training himself while anyone with any training ability was left carrying buckets. Team Eubank hung themselves out to dry. Plenty of potential but a perfect example of how it can go so wrong when the wrong people are in control. Whether he is the one not listening is another question but they have to get the kid a proper trainer.