Comments Thread For: Blackwell: I'd Love To Land Final KO Shot on Jaw of Eubank Sr!

[Mpower]

Genuinely ridiculous from Blackwell.

The Eubank's handled the whole situation with class and respect.

Pre-fight, Blackwell (and his buddies Saunders and Fury) were absolute imbeciles. That carried on ringside throughout the fight and yet through it all the Eubank's remained dignified.

The only shameful behaviour came from Blackwell's side before and during the fight.

Exaclty, was pure disgusting the childish taunts to Snr in the ring before the fight. Eubanks did not rise to any of it and now Blackwell is crying about Eubanks behaviour, please fark off Blackwell.

[fightfanjoe]

Don't think I can side with him on this one.

I don't see how anyone could. Blackwell is so out of line here. He should be thanking Sr for his life. And the Eubanks shouldn't have had to keep quite about the fight; that's a load of crap. I don't understand his thinking but like others have pointed out, he just lost his career, got beaten up in the process, and sustained a brain injury... so at least there is some context.

[K-Nan]

He wanted him to go to the body because thats the best way to stop a tough opponent.

And as a direct result it minimized damage upstairs. Now anything else you say about the "intentions" of the Eubanks' press releases is pure conjecture. The only thing for certain is what is on tape.

[Geon]

How can you talk about ko'ing senior, did you forget what happened last time you were in the ring with a eubank?

[Tedkidlewis]

Blackwell has just lost the people's respect. The Eubank's showed class during and after the fight.

[ShoulderRoll]

Can't side with Blackwell here. He should just be thankful that Eubank instructed his son to go to the body.

Whether he did it out of concern or to finish the fight quicker doesn't matter, the end result is that it avoided more trauma to the head. That likely saved Blackwell's life.

[SugarRayCurtain]

If the family asks you not to speak to media about the situation while the guy is in a coma fighting for his life, then dont speak to the media about it.

Even if you dont agree with the Balckwell families reasons for making the request.

A simple statement saying 'we wish him well, our thoughts are with him, but unfortunately due to a family request we dont want to answer any questions at this time' would have covered it.

Instead they were all over the news having interviews making sure everyone knew that they had saved Balckwells life by going to the body rather than head (as if they had Nicks health at heart) despite being specifically asked not to?

Classless opportunism imo.

I somewhat agree with this
If the eubanks truly respected Nick and his family, then they'd respect his families wishes.
It wasnt neccessary for the Eubanks to be in every TV network discussing what happened.

[Tom Cruise]

And as a direct result it minimized damage upstairs. Now anything else you say about the "intentions" of the Eubanks' press releases is pure conjecture. The only thing for certain is what is on tape.

His family asked the Eubanks not to go to the media while he was in hospital fighting for his life. Hardly a difficult request really is it?

The eubanks went anyway because they saw the media was jumping on the 'go to the body' comments and saw the chance for some good publicity. They probably did wish well towards Blackwell, im not suggesting otherwise, but they ignored a pretty simple, straightforward request from a distraught family for selfish reasons imo.

[Ray*]

Classless from Blackwell here, gives travelers another bad name here. Can't fault the Eubanks at all, from the beginning to the end. If Blackwell mates, families and community weren't disgracing themselves at the ringside, acting like a bunch of imbeciles then maybe you might think the Eubanks are to blame, but his community act like idiots throughout this whole saga, so to wake up and blame the Eubanks shows a lack of class all round.

[Ray*]

Am glad the Eubank spoke to the media, this wasn't just about the Blackwell. The media were hounding the Eubank especially with what happened with snr and Watson, not saying a word would have look even worse. Even after what he said today Eubank jr still replied with class which says it all really.