Chris Eubank Jr.
Appearances
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You're the first person I've really spoken to about this type of stuff. I was in hospital after the fight. I'm lying there, I've got my mask on, thinking this is so bad. Get me the morphine, get me the morphine. I've got my family around me, some of them are crying. I can hear everything that's going on.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I was always going to be there for you. And in my mind, I'm thinking, if I had just gone to sleep, what happens? Would you still be here? Like, what? you know, we haven't had any communication and I know, I knew how hard it was for him to send me that text of, you know, call me when you see this, because he doesn't do that. You know, it's been years since he tried to have that contact with me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So I think if I just ignored it, then we wouldn't be sitting here today talking about this amazing event that had unfolded because make no mistake, him being there made it, It made it different. It made it something that will now go down in history. You know, movies are made about this type of stuff. If I go in there alone, it's just a fight. It would have been a great fight still.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
But to have that fantasy of a father and son coming together after going through so much...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
so much you know my brother passing away um all the stuff in the media all the friction to see to see that be able to be kind of put to one side and to unite to come together to walk into that ring it's uh it's an incredible thing you know i i get i get emotional thinking about it because it's it was so unexpected
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, I had envisioned in my mind for the last two years, me walking to that ring alone. I just, you know, it never crossed my mind that my old man would be behind me. I envisioned walking to the ring alone, being booed and getting into that ring and fighting with
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
anger in my heart that's that's what i thought that fight was going to be what it turned out to be was i'm walking to the ring my old man is behind me he's with me and you know for the first time in my whole career i'm walking through a crowd And there's no booze. I'm used to walking up into these rings and I'm looking out and people are going, you're going to get knocked out.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And I feed off of that dark energy and I use it against my opponents. That's what I've been. That's been my life for my whole career, really. In this fight, I'm walking past people and I'm seeing tears in their eyes. I'm seeing grown men with tears in their eyes and smiles and, you know, God rest.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And it's like, you know, I'm walking to the ring and my face is always cold because I'm about to get in the ring and hurt somebody and get hurt. But in my mind, in my heart, I'm like, what's happening? What is this? This is... I've never seen this before. I've never seen cheers, let alone people crying with joy. This is, you know, this is going to be different.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
This fight is about to be something different. I don't know what it's going to be, but... I'm excited. What did you discuss in that hotel room when he arrived in that Uber? He said to me in that hotel room, what do you think I want from you? I thought about it for a long time and I genuinely couldn't answer the question. You know, we have been estranged for a long, long time.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah, years. So how can I answer that? What do I want from you? Is what he said. I know that this man is not a man that can be bought. He's got too much pride. He's got too much morals. He's a man of God. That's all that's important to him. You can't buy him. So me knowing that, when he's saying, what do you think I want from you? I'm thinking, oh, no. Has that changed? Has he changed?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Is he about to, you know, ask me for some crazy amount of money? I hope not. Because then that changes my view of who this man in front of me is. You know? So I didn't even think about that. It's in my head, but I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to say it in the fear that he would be like, yeah, you got to give me a million. That would kill me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would have been bad. Why? Because then I know that he's not there because he loves me and because he wants to see me
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
win he wants to support me uh he wants to be my dad if it's about money then all of that is irrelevant yeah so i was too scared to even talk about to even mention money because then that would mean that there's there's no coming back you know if you're if you're in if you're if we were in a room together the night before the biggest fight of my life and you're just saying you're gonna pay me
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That means for the rest of our lives now, our relationship will never, ever be the same. So I was scared to say that. And I was scared at the question. I had to joke. I had to make a joke out of it because I was so confused and worried about what was about to happen. I said, well, you want a hug? I'll give you a hug. He said, no. I want nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And when he said that, you know, my heart, it was just an overwhelming feeling of joy. Okay, my dad is here because he wants to be my dad. That's huge. That's everything that's, that's what I haven't had for years and years and years. So if there was ever a time that I was going to kind of get some of that feeling and love back, this was the time I needed it. And he was there to do it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'll never forget that. Him being there that night for sure. You know, it gave me those few extra percentages to put into that performance.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, I had to come outside of myself. It became spiritual. It wasn't about the physical. I was dehydrated. I was experiencing all the things that had been restricting me leading up to the fight. So it became not about the physical. It came about the spiritual. It became about just being true, just being the man I know I can be.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Fucking crazy is pretty accurate. Yeah, it was a fight that I'm not going to lie, I wasn't expecting to be involved in. Um, I genuinely thought that, uh, I was going to go in there. I was going to have my way with this kid, blow him out of the water, you know, watch him quit, watch him, um, crumble under the pressure. That's really what I thought was going to happen.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I told you a story once about being on that treadmill and you've got that cramp in your, in your foot, but you said you was going to do the 10 miles. So you've got a limp on that treadmill for as long as you have to, to complete the task. No one's around, no one's watching. But you keep your ass on that treadmill and you get through it. You get through the pain.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That mentality is what was able to get me through those last two, three rounds. I never gave up in the gyms. When I was getting beaten up in sparring, I never quit. I would come back the next day. When I got the cramps, I kept going.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened 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?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened 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?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And thank God that I was wrong. Because if that had happened, it would not be a fight that is now going to be remembered for ever. This is what I'm being told. This is what I'm hearing. This is what I'm seeing. This is the best I ever saw. This is the best event I ever saw. This was amazing. For a fight to reach that level of love and respect, both fighters have to go through the fire.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
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.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. Explaining exactly that. I told him, I'm going to write my own book one day. The book can't be, oh, well, my dad told me to do this, so I did it. My dad said, don't take that fight. So I didn't take that fight. He told me to train that way and go here and wear that. It's not a book. It's not a life. I need to be able to write my own story into history.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And why didn't you tell him to his face? I needed him to understand and read it. and reread it and reread it without interruption. You know, if I'm talking to him, like I'm talking to you, as soon as something is said that is maybe a little bit, I don't like that or I don't agree with that, he will be ready to jump in and say his point. I had to get the whole thing out.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Couldn't be in conversation. I said to him, I am the boss. And that broke him. He couldn't handle that. He had been the boss my entire life. He had been in charge of who I fought. He had been in charge of my financials. He had been in charge of my contracts. He was the boss. So for a boss to hear that he's not the boss anymore, That strained the relationship.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Oh, you don't want me to be a part of your career anymore? All right, well then bye. That was his reaction. It shouldn't have been that way, but that's how he dealt with the disappointment and the frustration of what I was doing, which was going my own way. Then you have the tragedy of my brother, Sebastian, passing away. And this would have happened maybe
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
a year or two after I sent that letter, that affected him deeply. It affected all of us deeply, but yeah, it, it affected him so much that You know, you add those two things together. He's already upset with how I've spoken to him and what I'm doing in my career.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
My brother passes away and that caused him to do certain things in his life, which, you know, I don't like talking about it, but I'm going to talk about it because it was actually documented. If it wasn't documented, I wouldn't speak about this. And I've never spoken about it. He started smoking marijuana. I guess, to deal with the hardship of losing a son.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Everybody deals with these things in their own ways. I can't fault him for that. But I think that that changed him as a man in terms of his mindset. And it caused an even bigger gap between us, which, you know, we never recovered from up until last weekend.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Since that night before the night, the fight, and every day since then, it's been all love between me and my old man, which is incredible to think. You know, I was in hospital for two days after the fight. He didn't leave the hospital. And when I say didn't leave the hospital, I mean, like, he's sleeping on, you know, one of these stretchers outside my room. Just in the hallway.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That means everything to me. Regardless of the differences and the things that have been said and done, you know, a man who is going to stay by his son like that, that's love. You know, it's been so long since I've had that type of feeling with him. And you only get one father. So now we are going to build. We're going to build. We're going to build.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And I think our relationship is only going to get stronger and stronger and stronger. I said it before the fight. This fight is either going to help us build or it's going to break us even more. I don't know. It was up to him, really. And he chose for this fight to be the thing that the catalyst for us to be able to build.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Both fires have to do things that may seem superhuman, may seem like impossible. They have to go through that. They have to be true. And they cannot give up. And that's what we both showed on that night. Two men who were willing to die in that ring. That's what boxing is really about. And it's so rare to see these days.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It was upsetting. It was distracting. It was horrible knowing that, you know, this deeply personal situation we have is now fully public. It's all over TikTok. It's all over Instagram. You know, the headlines, Chris Eubank Sr. calls his son a disgrace. You know, millions of people are watching these interviews. So for sure, it affects your mental health, your mental wellbeing.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It's negative and it's deeply personal and you don't want that in the public. It's one thing dealing with family issues, you know, between your family, but when everyone else knows what's going on, it's tough. And it came out of me in that last press conference. Conor Benn talking about, ah, well, yeah, you just worry about making weight. And at that time I was making weight and I was in pain.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And I said, I'm in pain right now and I'm going to be in even more pain tonight and I'm going to be in even more pain tomorrow morning when I've got to lose those last few pounds.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
yeah and you know i am not an emotional guy especially not in boxing but in that moment that's what i'm thinking you know yeah this this weight cut and this rehydration clause fucking hurts but guess what it isn't anything compared to
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Those three things that are listed and the other things that are going on in my personal life that I'm having to deal with and struggle with all while getting ready for this huge fight. So if I can deal with those things, then what is cutting weight? What is dehydrating and starving myself to make a weight? It's nothing. You know, it's a moment of discomfort.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, my brother passing away, Rahim not understanding that his father is not with us, questioning, why doesn't he take me to school? I see all these other kids that are coming into school with their dads. Why doesn't my dad take me to school? Why can't I see my daddy? You say he's at the office. Where's the office? Let's go to the office and see my daddy. My own father. he's a disgrace.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
These are moments, these are not moments of pain. This is pain that lives with you forever. So they're incomparable. You know, so when Conor Benn's talking about, ah, you know, you just worry about making weight. Don't worry about the weight, mate. The weight's fine. I got a lot worse issues than the weight. The weight's going to come off. I think that was the first time that I kind of got
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
caught up a little bit in what was going on in my life. And, um, the people saw that and they, I guess they, they loved seeing that vulnerable side to me, uh, because it's real and it's what, it's what millions and billions of people are dealing with in their own lives. So to see somebody who's a fighter, who's big and strong and tough, having to go through the same things, it's, uh,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, it's a very, it's a humbling thing to see. And it's one of the reasons why, you know, when I'm walking to the ring, there are people crying. His dad came. His dad was there for him after all that. They're together. You know, I'm going to call my dad after this fight. That's what people tell me. After the fight, I called my dad straight away. Haven't spoke to him for months, years.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Called him.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There is a picture. There was a picture of him on my shorts, right on the side. He's screaming. And his name's on the bottom of my shorts, Sebastian. That fire, you know, I'm looking at that picture before I'm putting the shorts on. Like, yeah, I'm using that energy. This is for you. This is for Raheem. This is for the family. This is for the Eubanks. I can't look at that picture and lose.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, we just saw over the weekend some of the best fighters on the planet right now. Devin Haney, Canelo, Ryan Garcia. You know, their fights were underwhelming, to say the least.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It's impossible. It's impossible.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Massive. Never thought, never thought that I could experience the love and the warmth that I have when I'm around him. I was never the type of guy like, oh, I want, you know, I want to, I want a kid. I want, I want kids. I want that. I'd never got it. I just, I guess I was just too busy with my own life, my own career, my own issues. Raheem comes into my life.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And it just, the love I have around him, it makes me want to have my own son. And Rahim is my son, but... Biologically, I want to have my own son now because I love who I am and how I feel when I'm around him, when I'm teaching him things, when I'm taking him to places and watching him grow and watching him learn new words and new expressions. It makes me really happy.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And before Raheem, I thought happiness was a big win at a poker table or winning a fight or going on some amazing trip. And those do make me happy, but it's a whole different level when you're with another human being who you love and you're getting to show him the world and teach him things and watch him grow. It's incredible. So, yeah, I thank God for him every day.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm not 100% sure, but he drowned. He drowned? He drowned in Dubai, yeah. He had, I don't know if it was a heart attack. It was like something happened with his heart. And of all places, he's swimming in the sea. And, you know, it switched him off for a second. And in that second, he's obviously in the water and he went under. And, you know, how insane is that? The guy, you saw him.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Jack, muscles. He makes his own green juices every day.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Alkaline.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Alkaline, yes. You know, health fanatic. And in a split second, he's gone. It's just, you know, it just put things into perspective and it just makes you appreciate and respect life so much more because you understand that it can be taken away at any time. You know, and it doesn't have to be some crazy car crash or, You know, it can just be you're swimming, you know?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
In those three fights, the total amount of punches landed... was less than just the fight me with me and connor so the fight with me and connor i think we landed maybe 1500 punches in their three fights in total only 1400 landed which is a pretty incredible statistic and it just shows you
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You're swimming and then you're not there anymore. And it makes you live your life with so much more respect and responsibility and appreciation. You know, before that, I'd have days or weeks where I would just, you know, I'd fuck around. Waste time. Video games... TV, you know, around people I shouldn't be hanging around with. Things that were not productive in any way, shape or form.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And yes, you still, you know, you still have to have those moments in your life where you can just kind of do whatever. Nobody's, you know, nobody's going to be righteous every day of their lives. But what experiencing some of this does is it makes you aware of life and how precious it is.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And it just makes you strive to be a better person so much more because you know that we have a finite amount of time on this earth. So are you going to make it count? Are you going to make it count or are you going to waste it? There are people out there who would kill for the lives that we have. So how can you not be grateful? How can you not be respectful and responsible with your time?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, we are free. We're free. We did it. We made it. Billions and billions and billions of people on this planet will never know what it is to be free. And in terms of free, I mean, you know, you're not waking up and working, you know, 12-hour shifts just so that you can eat and live. You know, we have free time. We have leisure. We have, you know, disposable income.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I was technically sound for the first seven rounds, but once the cut came, I was experiencing all the things that had been restricting me leading up to the fight. And I can hear my trainer, Conor, Use the jab, Chris, use your feet. I looked at him, I said, I'm sorry, it's too late.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
People don't have these things. So you've got to be respectful. You've got to be grateful. You've got to be responsible with what you're doing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You're really trying to get that out of me, huh?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, I had a, you know, regardless of what happened outside of my training camp and all the things I was going through, I had a rehydration restriction.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So, you know, and I'm not saying this for sympathy or as an excuse. It was my own doing. I take full responsibility. And I say that because... They said, we want to have a weight or a rehydration restriction on you. So you can weigh in at the middle weight limit of 160 pounds, but you can only put on 10 pounds before the fight. Usually, there's no restriction on what you eat and drink.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
how much that fight meant to both of us you know it showed the pressure and the grit and the determination and the stakes so i'm i'm blessed to be a part of such a historic fight a historic event and i'm i'm very um
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You just refuel and replenish your body to as much as you can so that you have full energy for the fight.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So in context, I usually put on maybe 14 or 15 pounds after a weigh-in. But I could only put on 10 pounds for the fight. If I go over the 10 pounds, I've got to pay a million dollar fine.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, now, if I'm not in a camp and I'm not trading, then I'll probably be... I don't know, 180, 185 pounds.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Which is, you know, it's doable. It gets harder as you get older. That's for sure. Your metabolism slows down. It becomes harder to shed those last few pounds. And it was hard. I documented my weight cut for this fight. You know, I was in sweatsuits and I had to be wrapped in these heated sheets. And I lay there for half an hour and I'm just sweating everything out.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And then I'm in, you know, I'm doing all these things to just drain my body of all the fluids. And it's torture. You're torturing yourself. You're literally torturing yourself doing this. But you've got to make the weight. If you don't make the weight, They're coming for that cash, baby. And that's what they've done. Unfortunately, they got me on the middleweight limit.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I was 0.05 pounds over the middleweight limit. I didn't mess up on the rehydration course. So the next day I didn't go over the 10 pounds. But the fact that I had to restrict what I was eating and drinking after my weigh-in that takes percentages off of your performance, naturally.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yes. So it was between 8 and 12.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So I think at 12 o'clock I weighed in at 169.4.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There should have been no rehydration restriction in the first place.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yes.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Hmm. I was so confident in my ability to beat Conor Benn that I thought, you know what? If you guys want a rate restriction so badly, I'll let you have it. Did you get paid the same? But you've got to show me the money.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
grateful that the fans loved it so much you know everything i've heard about it so far has been amazing and i you know i went out into the streets um for the first time yesterday in brixton and to see the people's reactions for the first time really to really see it um you know it really it really uh it really means a lot you know i had a woman a woman came up when she was crying
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yes, I did.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
have got, oh man, I could have got a couple cars or, you know.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
But that's the thing. You know, when you're negotiating with promoters or broadcasters, you know, you come in high expecting them to come in low and then you, you know, I know this and then that. That's usually what happens. The Saudis are not They're not normal people. They don't have normal money. So a number that you think is fucking great, to them, it's just yalla.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
But again, I said, I'm not greedy. They paid me life-changing amounts of money. That's another reason why I did what I did in that ring. I have a duty to boxing, to the people, to the fans. We can't be making the types of money we're making and give half-assed performances. That's disrespectful to people, to the sport, to the fans. You know, we are blessed.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
We are privileged to be in these positions. Earn your keep.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That all comes in the contract. So, you know, you have your purse.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And then you will agree on... If we get to 500,000 buys, then I get a percentage.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And then if it hits 600, I get a percentage, you know, so you work it, you work it like that. Or just say, all right, well, we'll just pay you this lump sum. And then we get all of the pay-per-view.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, it just depends on how you negotiate.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm not going to go into details on that specific part of the contract.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You said eight figures, right?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Couple million.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
minimum yeah it was um you know i don't have to box again let's put it that way but the beautiful thing is at 35 years old i'm still hungry i'm still hungry for success in the sport i'm still hungry for accolades i'm still hungry to please the fans you know a lot of times It's happened throughout history. Fighters will get paid big for a fight and then they lose that hunger.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
They lose that dedication, that respect for the industry. Oh, well, I've done it now. Now, you know, let's go to the club. Let's pop the bottles and celebrate. Let's travel. Let's buy this car and this watch, this house. Oh, it's gym today. I was tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. It's okay. It's okay. That's the trap that so many fighters fall into.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And that's why I have so much respect for Floyd Mayweather. He has made a disgusting amount of money and his performances and his dedication never, ever, ever changed. That is, you know, it's incredible because guys, they make their first million and their head's gone. Oh, I made it. All right, cool. No, it's not cool. You know, boxing is a lifestyle. It isn't a one training camp.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
She had tears in her eyes, like, you know, it's amazing what you did. You know, that fight superseded what boxing is, you know, because it was, you know, even outside of what we did in that ring, the father and son dynamic, that was real. And that's something that, you know, the entire world can relate to and has to deal with their own problems with their families.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It isn't one fight. It is a lifetime of dedication and sacrifice, which is why, I never gave up going through all the things I was going through leading up to this fight, because I know I've put the work in since I was 14 years old. So it doesn't matter what's going on in these two months. I've served my time.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I've been through the trenches time and time and time and time again, and I've always found a way to survive. So I'm going to do it now. Not, oh, well, there's weight clauses and my dad is giving me issues and this and that and that. So, you know, this is going to be tough. Maybe I shouldn't do this. No, you're going to get through it. Just like you got through that treadmill run.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Just like you got through that cut in that fight. Just like you got through in that cramp in your leg. In that fight, you build up a tolerance for pain and suffering.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There was no reserve tank.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. What are you thinking? You know, I remember going back to the corner in the, maybe the eighth round, seventh or eighth round, and I can hear my trainer and my cornerman.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I looked at him, I said, it's too late. It's too late. I'm sorry. What's going to happen is going to happen. You'll see. There was a look of confusion on their faces. You know, when you have an instruction from a trainer and a team, you're supposed to abide by it. So when I'm telling them it's too late, it's too late. I had already gone into war mode.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Once you commit as a fighter, once you commit to a certain path you're going to walk down, it's pretty much impossible to then switch back. I had a cut from a headbutt. You know, the blood was going down into my eye. I couldn't see. Fights can get stopped from cuts. As soon as that cut happened, I knew that there was no more boxing. There was no more jabbing. There was no more technicality.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There was no more being pretty with it, defense. Nope. It's go time now, baby. We're going to see how much this kid really wants it. Because I want it. I don't know how much he wants it. We're going to find out. Let's find out. Come forward, you attack, you walk through the punches. It doesn't look good. Doesn't look pretty. It's not boxing. It is trench warfare.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, when you're dehydrated as well, after the fight, my face is swollen up. And that's not from the punches. That's from severe dehydration. It's this weird thing where like when your body doesn't have any moisture in it and you're dehydrated, your face puffs up. I think it's just the skin is weak and it just puffs up.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So to see me and my father going through what we were going through and then to come together to unite at a time when it meant the most, that's an amazing thing. And nobody thought it was going to happen. I didn't think it was going to happen. So seeing that, you know, that's not boxing. You know, that is, that's love, you know.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And that's what I was suffering with most in hospital was just complete dehydration. It got to a point where I was in the hospital and I was lying in the bed. And they had drips, IV drips to get all the liquid into your system. And my bladder was full. Like I really needed to pee. For about two hours, I'd get up, go to the toilet. I stand in the toilet. would not go. And I'm dying to go.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That's how dehydrated I was, that my body would not let any liquids, any moisture go. It was holding onto everything. There were moments in that hospital where I'm feeling, you know, I saw myself, I caught myself in a mirror. I see my face is all puffed up. This massive cut across my eye got, my headache is crazy. You know, and I'm feeling sorry for myself. I've got my family around me.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Some of them are crying. And I'm like, this is so bad. I'm lying there. I've got my mask on, oxygen mask. I can hear everything that's going on. Somebody, we're in a ward. Somebody gets wheeled into the room next to me. And it's only, you know, it's, there's no walls. It's like sheets just separating. I'm looking up.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
is so bad get me the morphine get me the morphine they can't get them they can't get you the morphine until they sign off on some stuff so i'm waiting there this is so bad and then i hear the doctor say we have to operate on him now otherwise he's gonna die i heard that from the other room and i thought oh my god I'm great. I'm blessed.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I should not be feeling sorry for myself at all because I knew I was in pain, but there's a guy next to me. He's about to die. What am I doing feeling bad for myself and complaining about a headache and a cut eye? He's about to die. And I don't know, you know, they willed him off and I don't know what happened to him. I pray that he's okay. But that put everything into perspective for me.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, I'm okay. I'm blessed. I'm going to be okay.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I said it after the fight. I wasn't expecting him to be able to do what he did in terms of show the heart and the determination and the will to win. He never gave up. I didn't know he had that in him. I hadn't prepared for 12 round fight like that. I thought that I would get to five or six rounds. He'd start feeling the pace and he'd look for a way out. He did not do that.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So in that respect, I have respect for him. The fight finished. I did not shake his hand. I didn't congratulate him. I didn't speak to him. I didn't hug him, which is what most fighters, pretty much all fighters do after they fight. And especially a fight like that, you would expect that. I couldn't do it. I didn't have it in me because in my mind, you know, this kid is still a drugs cheat.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
He still tried to cheat in our first fight. Failed two drugs tests. Never owned up to it. Denied it, denied it, denied it. No apologies, no admittance, no matting up. I can't forgive that. I can't respect that. I can't shake that hand until there is some accountability. He's not going to give it.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Bothered is an understatement. Really?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I don't hold grudges. I am a man that can forgive. Never forget, but I can forgive. But when it comes to something as serious as drug cheating in this sport, you saw what we had to go through. So if somebody's got something in their system which is going to make them fight harder, take more punishment, react quicker, you know, that is a form of attempted murder in my opinion.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You can be suicidal and devastated after getting caught doing something you shouldn't have done. You can still have that reaction. Let's say that he did unintentionally take these drugs. Somebody slipped something into his drink. Somebody contaminated his eggs. Somebody injected something into him when he was at a doctor's appointment.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I don't know however you want to fantasize this beautiful story. Let's say that this impossible thing has happened. As a fighter, as an athlete, You only have a few jobs that you have to do. You have to train hard. You have to go to sleep on time. You have to prepare. You have to make sure that your diet, your fluid intake is on point.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You're very observant. There are a lot of things going on in my life that no one knows about and no one will ever know about. You know, as a fighter, you have to... You have to do things that nobody else could imagine doing and no one else is willing to do. I did that to be able to get into the ring that night. You also have the navigation of weight loss, rehydration restrictions.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
so that you have the energy to go into these fights and to these sporting events and be able to compete at the highest abilities you can. Aside from that, there's not much else we have to do as an athlete. It's your job to know exactly what you are putting into your body, whether it's food, whether it's fluid, whether it's drugs. You have to know. That's your job.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So if you're irresponsible enough to let somebody slip something by to where you fail not one, but two drugs tests, if you're irresponsible enough for that to happen, then you're still a cheat. Could you shake his hand now? I told you I didn't shake his hand after the fight. One, because he's never owned up to it. And two... You know, it's very likely that we are going to be fighting again.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Worth every penny, my friend.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. It was a symbol. It was... It wasn't an act of violence. It was an act of justice. It was an act to make sure... that for the rest of his life, he will never be able to forget what he did. People will always know. Benny, I remember that time you banged him with an egg. That will be with him for the rest of his life. And that's what he deserves for failing those drugs tests.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So many times, fighters, they fail drug tests, they serve a little ban, they pay a fine, they're back in the ring, and people kind of just forget. Can't he just get swept under? Oh, don't talk about that. Come on, you know, he's doing so well now. He served his time. No, no, no, no, no. This kid is not, he's not getting that. I'm going to put this egg across his chin.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There's going to be pictures that are going to circulate around the world. That memory will stay with him for the rest of his life. He will always be known for that.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
was it an egg why do you hit him with an egg oh because he was treating with drugs and it was it was a contaminated egg something like that i want that story to live with him there's a rematch clause i'm assuming the rematch because i don't know how these things work but i'm assuming you get paid the same again you get paid more you get paid more to do the rematch absolutely really yeah you know this that's this is business you you know the fight will be bigger
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
The fight will sell more pay-per-views. It will sell more tickets. It will, there will be a, you can't, you know, you can't get paid the same. If you lose, you get paid less. That's how boxing works.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Because I always knew there would be fights like this where you don't have anything left, or you wanna give up, or you're hurt, but you have to fight through the demons, the issues, the restrictions. Because I wasn't willing to go the rest of my life knowing that I didn't give it my all. It lives with you forever. So the technicality of the sport was out the window. We are going to war.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I mean, it would still be incredible numbers, but yes.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
But that's, you know, that's not just because we're working with the Saudis. That's boxing in general. Yeah. They say in boxing, you're only as good as your last fight. If you win, you can demand more the next time. If you lose, well, you lost, so we're going to give you this.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That's a good question. I don't know if there's a penalty. Well, yeah. Maybe I could be sued.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. There's probably, you know, all that stuff I have, you know, lawyers that deal out all the small print. But, you know, in all honesty, you know, I was like, you guys want to sign a rematch clause for this? Yeah. No one's going to want to see a rematch after I do this, what I'm going to do to you. That's what was in my head. I was like, they're contracting me. They have to deliver a rematch.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
They have to pay me this amount of money minimum. This is amazing. Because I'm going to go out there, I'm going to blast this guy out. And then, you know, people are probably aren't going to want to see a rematch. So this is amazing that I'm going to actually get it contracted in now.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That's how much I didn't respect the... Not even the ability, because I knew he had ability, but the mindset.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I never said I had a health condition. You are, you know, kind of listening to what I've said and that's what you've taken away from it. I'm not confirming or denying that, just to make that clear. Yeah. I'm not going to answer that question either.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I mean, contractually, that is what is on paper.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I doubt that it's already been booked. But, you know, they have their plans, they have their direction. And, you know, with the Saudis, when they want something... They get it, you know? Nobody stops them from doing what they want to do. So it's very likely that that fight will happen again at some point this year.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I want what the fans want. You know, if the fans want to see it next, who am I to say no? You know, it's a fight that's inspired people. I got friends calling me up, messaging me. Oh, my son. I took my son down to the boxing gym for the first time today. Like it's getting kids into gyms. You know, I never wanted to box before. He plays football every day. Now he's in the boxing gym.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
These are all things that I was having to deal with on top of all the outside stuff. What you saw was maybe, yes, there was maybe certain aspects of me as an athlete that, you know, weren't a hundred percent, but the truth of it is so many fighters go into fights with issues, whether it's injuries, whether it's illness, whether it's mental problems. We all have to fight through these things.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Sending me pictures of him hitting the bags and stuff. It's amazing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, I fought him. I've lived with him for 12 rounds. I know what he is, what he's capable of. So in that aspect, the next fight for me should be a hell of a lot easier. Because, you know, I'm one of them fighters, you know, all I need is to experience it one time. And then I know what to do with you. That's how I've always been, especially in like sparring.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I remember the first time I ever went into a gym, I can't remember if I told you this story, but I got my ass battered for three rounds the first time I ever went to a boxing gym. But I knew what he was. I knew how strong he was. I knew how fast he was. I knew the type of punches he threw.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So after two months of training and preparation, I got back into the ring with that same guy and I batted him. That's all I thought about, you know? So I believe the same thing will happen with Conor. I won the first fight and I got to experience what he is. There's so many things I know now about him that I can practice, perfect, tweak, tailor my performance to take advantage of his weaknesses.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And he will probably do the same with me. But my experience... is so more superior to what he is in terms of what I've done and the guys I've faced. I know how to capitalize on being in a ring with somebody before that he doesn't. I've been in rematches before. I've rematched Liam Smith, who beat me in the first fight. And the second fight blew him out of the war. So I know what it is to do that.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
He doesn't.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yep.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yep. Stronger, faster, tougher, and most importantly is more mentally prepared and more mentally willing to put it all on the line. That was the most shocking thing to me. I didn't think he had that in him to stay in there and show that dog We both had to be dogs at the end of that fight and throughout the entire fight. I didn't know he had any dog in him.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I thought he was the type of guy, if it's not going my way, I'm going to look for a way out. He's not that guy.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It's exciting. You know, I'm sick in that way. in that I love being in these positions where what's going to happen?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I live for that. I live for those moments. These are the moments that when I'm 60, 70, 80 years old, I'm going to look at it and be like, wow, I did that.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, you have to be sick to be in a fight like that. come out of the ring a week later and think, you know what? I can't wait to do that again. That is kind of sick. You know, I'm dehydrated. I'm cut. I'm tired. I'm in pain. There's something sick about it. But you have to be wired differently to be a fighter of any type of grade. You can't be a normal human being.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Most human beings, when they're in painful situations, what can I do to avoid that? I want to get into it more. See how far I can go. Can he break me? No, but let's find out if he can. So talk to me about the walkout.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I've seen it. I watched The Walkout 50 times.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah, that's my anthem. That's the song I've been walking out to for my entire career. So to have an orchestra playing that behind me was special.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah, Simply the Best.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
We were supposed to have an artist. We were in talks with Central C. He was going to bring me out. And then, you know, obviously last minute, my old man came into the picture and, you know, we had to cut out all these other things we were going to do.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That's a part of the sport, which is why I'm not going to sit here and tell you about all the things that I was dealing with because it's my job. We are fighters. You have to fight through the demons. You have to fight through the issues. You have to fight through the restrictions. And that's what I did. I didn't give up.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So he said, what do you want from me? What do you think I want? I said, I don't know, Dad. You want a hug? He said, I don't want anything. And then later on he said, you know what? There's one thing. There's a song that I want you to play at some point in the walkout. And I'm like, here we go. We've already got Simply the Best. We've got a whole orchestra playing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
For my song, Dr. Dre, how are we going to squeeze in some random song I've never heard of? But my old man's my old man. And I was actually kind of annoyed because I'm like, you know, the truth is you haven't been around. You haven't been a part of the fight. You haven't been a part of the whole setup. We've had all these... you know, all these things, you know, preparing for the show.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And now all of a sudden, you know, you're coming in and you're saying you want this song. I'm like, you know what? You being there is what's important. And if you're saying that's what you want, we will find a way to put it in. And I listened to the song and I was like, I didn't get it. I thought, oh, it's just one of my old man's kooky requests that, you know. Even on the night,
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm up on the stage, we walk up onto the stage and look out into the crowd. There's simply the best song stops. And in my head, I'm thinking, oh man, that would have been so much better to just keep that going, you know? And then this kind of ethereal tune pops out over the, over the stadium and I'm looking out into the crowd and I'm starting to see people well up.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Like, Jesus, this guy, how does this guy do? He always, you know, even when you think he's crazy or wrong, he's right. And this song was like, it just, it worked perfectly perfectly. With the whole scene, me and my old man finally standing together and there's this like peaceful song that comes in and we're together and it's like a beautiful moment that I never thought would happen.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That wouldn't have happened if it was just simply the best because it's a different vibe, you know? It took the energy out. It took it down. And it went boom. And then for everyone to just focus on what was actually happening. So we're there and we're listening to this song and it's like, it's an amazing moment. And then it dropped into the orchestra.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And it was just perfect. I was like, wow.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, and it's like... You can't script this type of stuff. You know, it's like people say, I keep hearing people say, oh, it was like WWE, like, you know, but in real life. And I've never watched WWE, so I don't really know what that means. But someone was telling me, you know, oh, well, you know, obviously everything's scripted, but they act like it isn't.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So like the commentators and, you know, but it's all, so it was like that, but it was real and it was happening in front of everyone for the first time. Everyone's like, well, and these were real reactions. It wasn't, it wasn't fake.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
the way your dad like stepped out the car and put one leg out and then you hear the commentators like scream it was yeah even that moment so it's like you know if i was on that side of the car because we're in the rolls royce but what if i was on that side so we park up and then it's me that gets out obviously it's it's still a very cool moment but it's it's different when it's
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That was a good moment for him to be shown, you know? And then I come in from the side and we hug and we walk in.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
No, I didn't know. I didn't know until people were talking about it.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
There's very few people in the sport, in the planet really, that I genuinely dislike. He is one of those people.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Just a few of the things that fighters... Did you have any of these? Again, again, I'm not going to go into what I was dealing with.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Well, Billy Joe is a drug cheat too. So... Billy Joe. Yeah, because not only is he a drug cheat, but he is actually a real... scummy human being, you know? And I don't talk about anybody like this. So if I'm saying it about him, there's a reason. He is a bad, bad person. A terrible advocate for the sport. Just a real low-life human being. Um... And I don't say that about any of the guys I fought.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm not even saying that about Conor. Even though he cheated, he's still somebody that, you know, I can see some of the things he does and I can see why people will like him. There's nothing to like about Billy Joe Saunders. And for that reason, I would love to get my hands on him because he does have a win over me that I don't believe he deserves, that many people say that he doesn't deserve.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
A lot of people say I won the fight and it's kind of just something that's been hanging over me for so long and I just know that I can beat him and I just know how much of an enjoyment it would be for me to set that record straight. So that's another fight that's a possibility in the future.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I feel like the demand for this Conor Benn fight is at an all-time high right now. So I feel like that would be the fight to make next. Then you have Canelo. That is a fight that I've been wanting for, you know, for years. And I would love to share the ring with that man. And then we could throw Saunders in at the end of it, you know?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Fear. That's a father who is thinking about all the things he's gone through and fearing that his son will walk into that
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Boxing is a tragic sport for the people that make you get disfigured and used. You know, disfigured. I've been used plenty of times. It's scary to think about how far we've come from that moment in time. All the things I've gone through, the things I've done. And, you know, he had every right to feel the way he did. Because champions, hard men don't come from those backgrounds that you saw.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You're going to say anything, but no, you know, it's, it's something that, you know, a lot of fighters do, you know, they, they will come out of a fight and they will say the things that were wrong with the camps and were wrong with their health or wrong with, you know, their personal lives or, you know, I've never been that guy to make excuses. I'm not looking for sympathy.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
That was filmed in a multi-million pound house. I went to private school the next day after that interview. kids that live that life don't accomplish anything in such a barbaric sport because there's just too much pain and suffering you have to go through and there's too many times where naturally you'll look for ways out now the kids that come from broken homes poverty and you know nothing
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
They don't have any other doors to open and walk through. So when they go to the gym and when they go into these fights, if I don't get through this door, I don't eat. I can't pay the rent. Can't feed my family. For me, when I'm looking at that door that I have to go through, whether it's in a gym or in a fight,
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I know that if I don't make it through that door, there's a door there and a door there and a door there and a door there. And if I'm experiencing too much pain to get to that doorknob to open it, I can just step back. You know what? All right, let's go over here. Football, business, Acting. I could do whatever I wanted with the position I was in as a kid.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I still wanted to walk through that horrible, painful, nasty boxing door. open that door and you walk through the door and you get punched in the stomach and you go through that and then you go walk through the other door and you get cut above your eye and just keep walking, keep walking, keep walking, keep walking. And there's all these other doors. Hey, come, come, come, come, come, come.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
We'll just, just, just take the easy route. Take the easy route. No, I'm staying here. So it was so much harder for me to do what I was doing because there was so many other choices. And my father thought that As soon as I reached that first door, I'd be like, you know what, nah. He said it. I'm not going to be hard enough. And nine times out of ten, kids are not hard enough in that position.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
But I was hell-bent on proving him wrong and proving myself right. I knew I had in me. I felt what it had in me anyway. I didn't know. You never know until you're in those positions. But I just, the strength and the, you know, that feeling inside of me was so, it was so visceral. I was like, there's no way I can't do this. Like, if I just, if I put everything into this, how can I fail?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Maybe he was calling you a bluff. That's another crazy thing that I used to think about. Did he, was he, was he saying this to make me to make me push harder because he's thinking, all right, well, if I, if I say, oh, he'll be great. When he gets to those painful positions, he's already kind of got my, I've already got his, his, his blessing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Unfortunately, yes, he is. He and my sister have been together for a long, long time, which is an extremely wild thing to think that
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm not looking for a reason for people to say, oh, well, you know, um, but even if I had lost, it's not in me to, oh, well, this is why I, you know, I had to do it through this and that. And people saw so much of what I had to deal with.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. Do you get along? No, absolutely not. You don't get along? No. We were okay. We were fine for a couple of years, for a number of years. I even spent Christmases with him. But it got to a stage where... I started to see Matrim, Eddie Hearn and himself trying to block me in terms of the business side of the sport. You know, I am with a promotional company called Boxer.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Boxer and Matrim, which is Eddie Hearn and Frank Smith are, you know, deathly enemies. They are arch rivals. So they do anything they can to screw over Boxer. I'm with Boxer. So Frank Smith is trying to sabotage or was trying to sabotage certain things going on in my career, being a part of Matrim. As soon as I learned that, It doesn't matter that you're in a relationship with my sister.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
We are not, you know, we are never going to talk again. We are never going to be cordial again. You are working against me. He was sitting in that arena on Saturday night praying that I lose.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
They offered.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I don't trust Eddie Hearn. I don't trust Frank Smith. I don't trust Matchroom. These people are, they're dangerous. And, you know, it's crazy to think that, yeah, he is with my sister. I don't know how that relationship came about, but love is a peculiar thing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Yeah. And I was actually thinking, I'm going to ask her, you know, how does it go? Like, you know, you guys go back home together. You guys are lying in bed. I've just won. Connor Ben's just lost. What do you guys say to each other? Because Frank is distraught that Connor Ben lost. That's their golden boy. That's their ticket. I'm my sister's brother.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
So you've got two completely opposite sides in the same bed. What do you guys say to each other?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
One album for the rest of my life, it would have to be something timeless, something that can be that's something that lasts, you know, so it would have to be something like Michael Jackson thriller, you know, a classic, something that in 200 years time, you're going to still have kids listening to it that, yeah, this is, this is my jam right here. Um,
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
My father, the weight cut, the rehydration clause, getting fined a million for being 0.5 overweight, using the gloves that weren't in the contract. Some guy trying to get into my changing room to check my hands and ruffling the feathers of my team. They threw everything at me. They did everything they could to try and get me off of track, to distract me, to take my mind off of the task at hand.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Was Connor faster than you were expecting? Yep. Was he stronger than you were expecting? Yep. And it was about who wants it more. My old man's there. I've got to show him I'm capable of great things. You know, we have been estranged for years. But what caused that relationship to strain? I sent him a letter and that broke him. You know, I get emotional thinking about this.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
And I never let that happen. And I'm very, I'm proud of that. I'm proud that I didn't fall into the traps that were set. Every time they set a trap, I saw the trap, go around it, go forward. Oh, there's another trap. Round it, forward. Another trap, round it, forward. That is a part of being a warrior. It's not just getting in the ring and fighting. You have to be smart. You have to be cunning.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You have to know your enemy. You have to understand the things that people are trying to do to take you out of your comfort zone, out of your preparation. You have to avoid and you have to make sure that nothing gets into your head. Nothing affects what you're going to do on the night.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
You know, and the crazy thing was not only was I dealing with all these bullets flying at me from my enemies in Conor Benn, in Matrim, in Eddie Hearn, in Nigel Benn. These are all enemies leading up to the fight. I had bullets coming from my family, my father. A couple of days before the biggest fight of my life, he's, you know, he's going into the media and saying I'm a disgrace.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm already in, you know, under a lot of stress, under a lot of pressure, and then I've got to hear this? It's like, Jesus, I mean, what, you know, how much worse is it going to get? It was tough. It was really tough. But on the subject of my father, regardless of what he said about me and about the fight, he was there when it mattered the most. And that means everything.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I didn't know he was going to come. He called me. He texted me the day before the fight, the night before the fight. He said, call me when you see this. So I saw the text and I thought, you know what? You know, we are, we're less than a day away from, well, this is the night before the biggest fight of my life. The last thing I can be doing is being on the phone, listening to negativity and
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
Because that's all he had come with for the last six, eight weeks. The fight's not going to happen. This fight shouldn't be happening. Weights are not right. He egged him. He's a disgrace. It's a circus. It's a sham. I will never be in my son's corner. This is all I'm hearing from him for two months. Don't do this fight, Chris, son. This is all I'm hearing.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I, so I'm sitting there, I'm reading this message and he hasn't, you know, I haven't spoken to him and I'm thinking, I can't, I can't deal with this right now. Call him, call him for what? So he can say not to take the fight. You know, I got to rest. I got to, I got to focus. A couple of hours go by, maybe nine, 10 o'clock it gets to that. And I'm like, you know what?
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I've been through so much shit in the last two months. What more could possibly, what more could possibly be thrown at me? At the end of the day, my old man, he texts me. I'm going to hear him out. So I call him. I was about to go to sleep and I thought, you know what? I'll call him. As soon as he picked the phone up, there was a tone in his voice that I hadn't heard for years.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
It was a tone of happiness, lightness, joy.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
How am I feeling? When have you worried about how I've been feeling? I'm good, Dad. Everything's cool. Just getting ready to go to sleep. Got a big day tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know, son. I know you've got a big day tomorrow and, um, I want to be there for you. I'm sorry. I heard that. And I'm like, is this, is this a dream? Is this, uh, this is, this is Chris Eubank senior.
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Chris Eubank Jr: I Was Paid $**** For The Fight! The Night Before, My Dad Finally Opened Up!
I'm speaking to who is this? Yeah, it's me, son. Let's do this. Let's do this together. Where are you? I said, I'm at my hotel. He said, all right, well, I'll come to your hotel. We'll speak. And yeah, let's do it. Okay. Okay, dad. I ordered him an Uber 20 minutes later. He was at my hotel. I got him a room. We went up to the room. We sat down. You know, he said, I was always going to come.