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From the very beginning, the Billy Joe Saunders vs. Chris Eubank Jr. duel seemed destined to fail before it even got started.
The fight was off, seemingly beyond repair, then unexpectedly it was back on again, and the constant outrageous demands from the elder Eubank had both Frank Warren and Saunders ready to spontaneously combust.
Then, after all the talk of his son being superior to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Eubank Sr. has done everything in his power to keep his son out of harms way of the former Olympian Saunders, starting with several no shows at press conferences.
The reason the former WBO Super Middleweight champ was apparently tentative about showing up at pressers, was because of a remark made by Saunders a while back about how he would slap Chris Jr., which has made Eubank Sr.’s father sense tingle. Since then, the monocle wearing gentleman has scrutinized the level of security provided by Frank Warren at the aforementioned press conferences, stating that even though his son is a boxer, he would not be safe at presser due to the threats of Billy Joe.
However, Saunders has taken radical measures to attempt to face his nemesis head on, with the infamous Skype press conference in which he gatecrashed a Eubank press conference via Skype to finally have his say.
There have been numerous spats throughout the build up to this affair, you could write a book about it. Come Saturday night though this intense rivalry will step up a notch, when both men will have the opportunity to do their talking in the ring, proving once and for all, who is the best.
