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Eubank is going to weight drained tomorrow,I can see him getting stopped again like the Smith fight.No wonder Eubank SR doesn't want the fight to go ahead
 
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Jimbeam3678 said:
100% agree, I thought these types of scenarios where left back in the 90’s. Considering what their dads were involved in they should know better.
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Definitely not, have a look at the current welterweight ring magazine p4p Jaron Ennis at the weigh in for his previous bout, absolutely horrifying.

Until hard rulings and sanctions are put in across all boxing bodies (never happening) fighters will continue to test themselves to be the bigger man come fight night.
 
sigma said:
No sympathy, they know what they signed up for.
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Fighters aren't medical experts and if they're offered enough money then they'd sign up for other things that are equally as dangerous. In the same way Eubank agreed to fight Benn when he was juiced up for an extra £1m, it shouldn't be his (or any fighters) decision.
 
BaZ87 said:
Fighters aren't medical experts and if they're offered enough money then they'd sign up for other things that are equally as dangerous. In the same way Eubank agreed to fight Benn when he was juiced up for an extra £1m, it shouldn't be his (or any fighters) decision.
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If it's within the current rules then it's their/their teams own doing. Sure the rules could/should be changed but if those are the rules then it's entirely their choice. Nobody is forcing Eubank to do it. If he's too greedy then he'll pay the consequences, at least £375k of them in this case.
 
Fighters need to be protected from themselves a lot of the time, the British boxing board of no control seem to be a farce. Jr didn't look good to me at all, Snr was right he can't make that weight and the fact he was 0.05lb off indicates he was trying everything to make it. I'm sure once he just puts fluids back in his system he will be almost 170lbs, not sure how he's supposed to be in any condition to fight tomorrow unless he takes yet another fine.
 
sigma said:
If it's within the current rules then it's their/their teams own doing. Sure the rules could/should be changed but if those are the rules then it's entirely their choice. Nobody is forcing Eubank to do it. If he's too greedy then he'll pay the consequences, at least £375k of them in this case.
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It's boxing, what rules? It's like the wild west where promoters/fighters can do almost as they please as they have far too much power over the boxing board. We've seen on numerous occasions the boxing board have been threatened with legal action, which would bankrupt them, when they've tried to enforce rules and or punish those that have broken rules. In a world where the biggest fighters are allowed to dope without any punishment, how do you expect them to introduce and enforce rules around making weight?

Any system that forces or encourages fighters to go to these extremes is ****ed. Just because a fighter has agreed to it, it doesn't make it right. As I said, boxers (anybody in fact) would agree to no end of stupid things if you offered them enough money.
 
BaZ87 said:
It's boxing, what rules? It's like the wild west where promoters/fighters can do almost as they please as they have far too much power over the boxing board. We've seen on numerous occasions the boxing board have been threatened with legal action, which would bankrupt them, when they've tried to enforce rules and or punish those that have broken rules. In a world where the biggest fighters are allowed to dope without any punishment, how do you expect them to introduce and enforce rules around making weight?

Any system that forces or encourages fighters to go to these extremes is ****ed. Just because a fighter has agreed to it, it doesn't make it right. As I said, boxers (anybody in fact) would agree to no end of stupid things if you offered them enough money.
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It sounds like a problem that doesn't have an easy solution. So I still end up at the conclusion that it's up to the fighters to decide, or the coaches/support team, and it's their fault if something bad happens.
 
Not gonna be watching the fight as it's a circus but what I don't understand is how Eubank Jr has let himself be stitched up by Matchroom with all these weight and rehydration stipulations, he had all the leverage without this fight what does Benn have to go for? Guys come off a drug ban he needs Eubank more than the other way round!

Should have just been 'the fights at Middleweight standard rules take it or leave it' instead either through hubris or bad management he is having to boil himself to death while Benn can do what he wants. He has let Matchroom stack the deck against him willingly.
 
Psycho Ned said:
Not gonna be watching the fight as it's a circus but what I don't understand is how Eubank Jr has let himself be stitched up by Matchroom with all these weight and rehydration stipulations, he had all the leverage without this fight what does Benn have to go for? Guys come off a drug ban he needs Eubank more than the other way round!

Should have just been 'the fights at Middleweight standard rules take it or leave it' instead either through hubris or bad management he is having to boil himself to death while Benn can do what he wants. He has let Matchroom stack the deck against him willingly.
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Its all about money, Eubank is getting paid insane amounts by people who did not even attempt to haggle his unrealistic unfair and undeserved pay demand.
 
dave28 said:
Its all about money, Eubank is getting paid insane amounts by people who did not even attempt to haggle his unrealistic unfair and undeserved pay demand.
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Both of them was always getting paid insane amounts to fight each other whether they deserve it or not because of who their dads are
 
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