Season 2: #19 Chris Eubank Jr
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr welcomes host Tris Dixon into his Brighton home for a deep conversation about the man behind the stoic expression. Eubank Jr, rated the No. 1 contender for Canelo Alvarez's WBA title, talks about getting into trouble as a youngster, making headlines in his youth and his hard boxing education in Las Vegas, where he lived and completed what was left of his childhood. He discusses his famous father, their recent appearances on Gogglebox, the best and worst of his career to date and the future in this enthralling interview.
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| 0:30.0 | And, you know, people probably looked at that and thought well who does he think he is you know just because he's got the second name you bank he's doing all this stuff in the ring and acting like that and I don't like him. Whereas other people love |
| 0:46.2 | that because it's different. That life I was living, that double life, that street life life and it was a double life because after |
| 0:56.0 | those situations I was going home to a mansion and then waking up and then going to private school. |
| 1:05.0 | But then once I'm out of the private school I'm back on the streets with these kids. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm street fighting. I'm running around Brighton, running around the city and doing things I shouldn't do. |
| 1:18.0 | If you're doing it for any other reason to love the the sport you're going to get hurt and you're not going to make it. |
| 1:28.3 | You know some people especially early on in my career was like oh well he's just doing it for the money |
| 1:33.4 | he's gonna make a quick payday have a couple fights make some money and then |
| 1:36.7 | go with on big brother or something like that you know what I mean and that's |
| 1:40.9 | fair enough because you know that's what's that but you know that's |
| 1:46.4 | I could have easily done that but if you're doing it for those reasons for those superficial reasons for money or fame or whatever |
| 1:56.0 | You just never gonna make because there's gonna be times |
| 1:58.8 | There's gonna be so many times where you're gonna be in you're gonna be in you're gonna be in you're going to be in positions where it's |
| 2:07.0 | going to be so painful so hard so gritty that you're going to do if you were only in it for those reasons you'd be like you |
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