Probably the most spectacular win of Chris Eubank Jr’s 36-fight profession was given a severe and weird postscript on Monday.
Eubank comprehensively outboxed a sluggish Liam Smith in Manchester on Saturday, eight months on from his KO loss to the previous tremendous welterweight world champion on the AO Enviornment.
The 33-year-old dropped Smith with a peach of an uppercut in spherical 4 and battered his bloodied foe to a Tenth-round stoppage.
A few of the post-fight evaluation centered upon Smith’s struggles to make weight after struggling a again damage between the 2 contests and the Liverpudlian turning his ankle to additional compromise his mobility early within the battle.
Nevertheless, loads of the credit score went to Eubank’s new cornerman Brian “BoMac” McIntyre, a coach on the crest of a wave after overseeing Terence Crawford’s demolition of Errol Spence to turn out to be the undisputed welterweight world champion.
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McIntyre’s rapid future within the sport and past has now been thrown into doubt after he was arrested at Manchester Airport and charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition and not using a certificates after a weapon was present in maintain baggage by airport employees.
He has been remanded in custody and can seem at Manchester Crown Court docket on Monday, October 9. The minimal sentence for firearms offences within the UK is 5 years in jail.
Chris Eubank Jr. coach historical past
On the very least, any plans Eubank had for an prolonged union with McIntyre have been thrown into flux, though the 33-year-old has labored underneath a number of coaches over the course of an eventful profession.
After transferring to the USA and slicing his tooth across the gyms of Las Vegas as an beginner, Eubank turned over as a professional in 2011.
He was educated by Ronnie Davies, the previous coach of his father and two-weight WBO world champion Chris Eubank.
Davies has remained part of Junior’s camps all through his profession, whereas the inimitable Chris Sr. was a visual and voluble presence across the first chapter of his son’s skilled journey.
That interval got here to a crescendo in Eubank’s nineteenth battle, the place he dropped a break up determination to bitter rival Billy Joe Saunders to lose his unbeaten document.
After a restorative win over Dmitry Chudinov, Eubank joined up with Adam Sales space. It proved to be a short-lived alliance, though David Haye’s ex-trainer Sales space went on to teach Eubank’s cousin Harlem Eubank.
It was left to Davies to step into the breach. Wins over Nick Blackwell, Tom Doran, Renold Quinlan, and Arthur Abraham helped to safe Eubank’s place within the World Boxing Tremendous Collection tremendous middleweight event.
A 3-round KO of Anvi Yildirim arrange a semifinal encounter with George Groves. It stays Eubank’s solely world title battle up to now and he was totally outclassed earlier than being unable to capitalise upon WBA champion Groves struggling a dislocated shoulder within the closing spherical. In the long run, Eubank dropped a 12-round unanimous determination.
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For his showdown with former world champion and 2008 Olympic gold medalist James DeGale, Eubank introduced in Nate Vasquez, having met the American coach on an tour to the Mayweather Gymnasium.
A unanimous determination win preceded a two-round retirement victory over Matvey Korobov, just for the coronavirus pandemic to put a promising link-up with Vazquez on ice.
When Eubank returned to motion, he had all-time nice Roy Jones Jr in his nook. Makes an attempt to rework Junior’s volume-heavy type into one among a extra cerebral boxer-puncher yielded blended ends in wins over Marcus Morrison and Liam Williams.
The preliminary spherical 4 TKO loss to Smith put the writing on the wall for that partnership, particularly given Eubank had requested his father to return to his nook for the aborted super-fight with Conor Benn.
Contemplating he solely spent 5 weeks with McIntyre previous to the triumphant rematch, Eubank made unimaginable strides. Nevertheless, Monday’s stunning flip of occasions means he may need to return to the drafting board as soon as extra.