August 29th 2023.
Chris Eubank Jr, ahead of his rematch against Liam Smith, has opened up about his upbringing under his father, Chris Eubank Snr. The 33-year-old Brighton fighter admitted his father was very strict and he often received physical punishment when he stepped out of line.
“I got away with nothing. If I messed up in school, if I didn’t do a chore, if I got into a fight with my brothers, there was physical punishment whether it was a belt, whether it was a cane, a slap,” Eubank Jr said.
The middleweight fighter was quick to point out that it was not ‘abuse’ and that his father punishments were meant to show him ‘there are consequences in life’. He even went so far as to say that it ‘made me the man I am today’.
Eubank Jr recalled incidents where he would prepare himself for the beatings by wearing extra clothing and even ‘padding’ himself with socks.
“At the time it’s scary and you hate it but looking back on it, what would I have been like without that discipline,” he said.
The relationship between father and son has become strained over the last year, however, Eubank Jr stands by the ‘tough love’ he received as a youngster. He believes it set him on the right path and without it, he would have been ‘off the rails’.
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