Chris Eubank Jr.
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Because I always knew there would be fights like this where you don't have anything left or you want to give up or you're hurt or you're dehydrated or you're injured or you're cut. You know, you can't see anything out of your eye. You've got a big cut across your eye. And you're going to ask yourself that question getting up off the stool in the ninth, in the tenth round. Should I give up?
Because I always knew there would be fights like this where you don't have anything left or you want to give up or you're hurt or you're dehydrated or you're injured or you're cut. You know, you can't see anything out of your eye. You've got a big cut across your eye. And you're going to ask yourself that question getting up off the stool in the ninth, in the tenth round. Should I give up?
Should I take a knee? Should I run? No. We are going to war. We are going to leave everything we have in this ring. Because this fight is going to be remembered forever. So what you choose to do in these last few rounds, that is what the people are going to remember you by for the rest of your life. Did you come forward? Did you put all on the line or did you retreat?
Should I take a knee? Should I run? No. We are going to war. We are going to leave everything we have in this ring. Because this fight is going to be remembered forever. So what you choose to do in these last few rounds, that is what the people are going to remember you by for the rest of your life. Did you come forward? Did you put all on the line or did you retreat?
I wasn't willing to go the rest of my life knowing that I didn't give it my all. Regardless of the cut, regardless of everything I was going through, I knew I just, I had to do what I had to do to win. And my old man's there. He's watching. And, you know, he didn't believe I would be able to do what I'm doing. That's what he's been saying for years. I've got to show him.
I wasn't willing to go the rest of my life knowing that I didn't give it my all. Regardless of the cut, regardless of everything I was going through, I knew I just, I had to do what I had to do to win. And my old man's there. He's watching. And, you know, he didn't believe I would be able to do what I'm doing. That's what he's been saying for years. I've got to show him.
I've got to show the world. And I've got to show myself that I'm capable of great things. I'm capable of going through things that 99.999% of human beings on this earth were not willing to go through. And that will live forever. And that's a beautiful feeling. A week after the fight, sitting here talking about it, there's no amount of money that can buy the feelings that I have now.
I've got to show the world. And I've got to show myself that I'm capable of great things. I'm capable of going through things that 99.999% of human beings on this earth were not willing to go through. And that will live forever. And that's a beautiful feeling. A week after the fight, sitting here talking about it, there's no amount of money that can buy the feelings that I have now.
And that is the genuine truth. How proud I am of what we achieved in that fight, it's priceless. It's something that, you know, on your deathbed in 60 years' time, you're thinking about it. Yeah, I did that. You can't get that from money. You can't get that from fame.
And that is the genuine truth. How proud I am of what we achieved in that fight, it's priceless. It's something that, you know, on your deathbed in 60 years' time, you're thinking about it. Yeah, I did that. You can't get that from money. You can't get that from fame.
You get that from years and years and years of graft, hard work, and just being true, not cutting corners, not cheating, not being a bully.
You get that from years and years and years of graft, hard work, and just being true, not cutting corners, not cheating, not being a bully.
My father is an extremely proud and an extremely intense human being. He has his ways of thinking. He has his ways of living, teaching, parenting. And it's his way or the highway. Nothing else works in his opinion. It got to a stage in my life where I decided to walk my own path, separate myself from this massive character in my father.
My father is an extremely proud and an extremely intense human being. He has his ways of thinking. He has his ways of living, teaching, parenting. And it's his way or the highway. Nothing else works in his opinion. It got to a stage in my life where I decided to walk my own path, separate myself from this massive character in my father.
You know, I had grown up with this pressure and this responsibility And it became too much. I was known for being the son of for so many years. That's because you make sun. That's because you make sun. And I kind of, whenever I would hear that, you know, well, at least they know who I am. But it got to a stage where I was like, how do I get away from that? How do I become
You know, I had grown up with this pressure and this responsibility And it became too much. I was known for being the son of for so many years. That's because you make sun. That's because you make sun. And I kind of, whenever I would hear that, you know, well, at least they know who I am. But it got to a stage where I was like, how do I get away from that? How do I become
just me you know how do I become Chris Eubank not the son of a legend and it dawned on me eventually I the only way to do that is to be separate from it in boxing I'm not talking about as a father talking about in terms of my career in terms of the decision making in terms of the training in terms of the fighting in terms of the
just me you know how do I become Chris Eubank not the son of a legend and it dawned on me eventually I the only way to do that is to be separate from it in boxing I'm not talking about as a father talking about in terms of my career in terms of the decision making in terms of the training in terms of the fighting in terms of the
Media, the press conferences, these were all things that he was right by my side for my entire career. I knew that to get away from the shadow, I had to start doing it on my own.
Media, the press conferences, these were all things that he was right by my side for my entire career. I knew that to get away from the shadow, I had to start doing it on my own.