‘I was like an enforcer’ – Chris Eubank Jr opens up about infamous street fight video before he ‘found boxing’
CHRIS EUBANK JR has spoken of his infamous street fighting video from when he was just 15 as he opened up on his unique experience growing up.
The 32-year-old described himself as an ‘enforcer’ in a gang as he revealed how he was living the street life, before returning to his mansion during his teenage years.
The middleweight star, son of boxing legend Chris Eubank, has stated his dad didn’t want him to follow in his footsteps.
But the Brighton native failed to resist the lure of fighting, as he turned to having tear ups in the street.
Speaking ahead of his bout against rival Liam Williams at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday night, Next Gen commented on how boxing saved him.
He told FightHub: “To this day there’s a video of me on YouTube street fighting in a car park when I was about 15. And I was doing that like every other week.
“It didn’t make any sense because I’d live the street life and then I’d go home to a multi-million pound mansion.
“Then the next day I’d put on my tie and my suit and I’d go to private school. But then after that I went back to the streets… I was like an enforcer, I wasn’t the guy robbing and selling drugs.
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“There were people doing that, but I was the guy – if there were problems with other people outside of the gang – I would go and help.
“I didn’t care about the gang, I just like to be able to go and fight, it was just in me. Once I found boxing, I just fell in love with it.”
He added: “I guess I just had this fire in me. I played all sports, I was just heavily into competing.
“My father stopped me from boxing for a couple of years, he didn’t think I’d be tough enough. He didn’t know the stuff I was doing outside of school.
“It got to the point where I was just constantly saying, ‘Listen, let me box, let me go to the gym, let me do this, let me try this.’
“Eventually he gave in. I knew that I wanted to be a fighter because all these sports I’d been playing for years as a kid, once I started boxing I cut all of it out.
“Everything just seemed boring for me and this was the ultimate form of competition.
“I knew that it was good for me because it was channelling all this energy that I was using in negative ways, getting into fights and stuff like that.
“After you’ve had a long two/three hour gym session getting your a*** kicked by people more experienced than you, you don’t wanna go running around on the street looking for more trouble.
“I started to see my attitude change as a person, I didn’t want to go out and cause trouble any more.
“It changed my life, it changed the path that I was going down. So I have a lot to thank for the sport of boxing.”
