{"id":56435,"date":"2025-04-28T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56435\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:39:10","slug":"amazing-throwback-video-shows-13-year-old-chris-eubank-jr-convince-dad-to-let-him-try-boxing-with-help-from-lennox-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56435\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing throwback video shows 13 year old Chris Eubank Jr convince dad to let him try boxing with help from Lennox Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHRIS EUBANK JR once begged his dad to let him try boxing – and Lennox Lewis came to his aid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fighter fulfilled Eubank’s Sr by beating Conor Benn<\/a> – the son of his boxing<\/a> rival Nigel.<\/p>\n

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Chris Eubank Jr pleaded with his dad aged 13 to become a boxerCredit: AT HOME WITH THE EUBANKS\"Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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Middleweight champion Eubank Sr tried to explain why becoming a boxer was a bad idea\"Chris<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lennox Lewis jumped to Jr’s defenceCredit: AT HOME WITH THE EUBANKS\"Chris<\/a><\/p>\n

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Eubank Sr was in the ring to celebrate his son’s win over Conor BennCredit: Reuters<\/p>\n

It was the 35th professional win of Jr’s career yet his father never wanted him to follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n

But Jr always had aspirations of entering the ring – even as young as 13.<\/p>\n

In footage from 2003, Eubank Jr<\/a> tells his dad: “I just want to try it. I just want to see what it is about.<\/p>\n

“If he can do it why can’t I.”<\/p>\n

Eubank Sr<\/a> was very dismissive of his ambitions, and replied: “20 world championship wins son.”<\/p>\n

Sr told his son boxing is a “tragic business to be in” for fighters who do not make it to the top, and he pleaded for him not to be stubborn and bull headed.<\/p>\n

His ex-wife Karron, Jr’s mum, quickly interjected and accused Sr of possessing those characteristics himself.<\/p>\n

The former middleweight champion then claimed his son could be left disfigured from taking too many punches to the face.<\/p>\n

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Lewis then hit back saying: “Am I bad looking?…Why are you putting that into the kid’s head.<\/p>\n

“What you’re saying is irrelevant at this time.”<\/p>\n

Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn in classy nods to their iconic dads during ringwalks for huge grudge fight<\/p>\n

Lennox<\/a> then put it to Sr another way, saying: “I would never want, when I have kids, for my son or daughter to be in a car crash.<\/p>\n

“So what do I do? I say I’m not buying you a car and you can’t drive? Is that the right thing to do?”<\/p>\n

After that Sr finally relented, smiled, and embraced Lennox – finally seeming to understand the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHRIS EUBANK JR once begged his dad to let him try boxing – and Lennox Lewis came to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,21609,15570,29796,8310,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-56435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-chris-eubank-jr","10":"tag-chris-eubank","11":"tag-lennox-lewis","12":"tag-section-sportboxing","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114413513491602192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}