Eubank Snr has gone too far this time
CHRIS EUBANK SNR has angered everyone in boxing with his comments on social media about referees needing to protect fighters from his son.
Eubank Jnr faces WBA super-middleweight champion George Groves next week in an intriguing clash.
All three men have been through the dark days of seeing fighters they’ve faced suffer life-changing, terrible brain injuries.
Eubank Snr was changed forever as a fighter after Michael Watson almost lost his life following their 1991 fight.
While his son’s brutal battle with Nick Blackwell in 2016 ended with the Trowbridge fighter in a coma after a bleed inside his skull.
Then, later that year, Eduard Gutknecht suffered a brain injury after refusing to relent in a fight with Groves.
Yet Eubank Snr has the audacity to claim he is looking out for Groves by using his son’s fight with Blackwell as a reason why the referee next Saturday needs to be “alert” to the dangers he possesses.
How disrespectful is that to Blackwell and his family after what they’ve been through?
And how disrespectful is it to Groves, who has a young family that doesn’t need to be worried by such talk?
It has no place in boxing and the British Boxing Board of Control have reprimanded people for much less.
So it is time they got him up in front of them at a hearing to stop this once and for all.
Billy Joe Saunders, who knows a thing or two about beating Eubank Jnr, was right to call out Eubank Snr
(inset) on social media for it and I back him.
Of course Saunders has said some unsavoury things on social media – and been punished for it – but he has never stepped over a line like this.
Not long ago, after Eubank Jnr pulled out of a fight with Tommy Langford for the British middleweight title, his team released a statement claiming he was dangerous to contenders so was relinquishing the belt.
Well, if Eubank Jnr is so dangerous, and this is sport is so risky, then why is he involved and why does he allow his son to box?