Chris Eubank Jr has heartbreakingly admitted he doesn’t want his dad in a corner anymore – and that the couple are now in a “strange and slightly strange place in our lives”.
It’s an open secret that he wants to fight Conor Benn, but his father, Chris Eubank Sr., is worried about the fight.
Eubank Jr is now determined to let him out of the corner and insists that he must be able to forge his own path.
As a result, the relationship between the two has now changed.
Chris Eubank Jr has heartbreakingly admitted he doesn’t want his dad in his corner anymore – and that the couple are now in a “strange and slightly weird place in our lives”
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The boxing star said in an interview with the Daily Mail: “My dad and I are in a weird and slightly weird place in our lives at the moment.
“It’s very difficult to go through a whole career with your old man and then not have him on the boxing side of things anymore.
“I just felt that I needed it.”
Eubank Sr is concerned about weight management and the associated health risks as Eubank Jr continues to hold out hope of meeting Benn.
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The 34-year-old has navigated almost his entire boxing career with his father supporting him every step of the way.
Now he admits that the situation is tricky and that he can’t see the situation changing until he finally hangs up his gloves for good, despite the painful decision.
“I think this situation will continue for some time,” he continued.
– I think I need to retire so we can just be father and son because right now he can’t separate business and boxing from just being my father.
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“I told him I don’t need advice. I don’t need a coach. I don’t need a mentor. I just need a dad.
“But he can’t do that. He’s still trying to figure out that dynamic, so I just have to let him go, let him do his thing.”
At 34 years old, Eubank Jr. clearly feels that the time is right for him to make a change.
He is grateful to his father for all the wisdom he has imparted over the years and helped him become the boxer he is today.
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However, Eubank Jr admits that the decision was difficult for his father – and that he is more than happy to now take full responsibility for the decisions he made.
“I felt that I wanted – and I would say this to him too – to make my own decisions. My father could no longer control my career,” he stated.
“I’m going to write a book one day and the book can’t be everything my dad said I should do, I did it.
“I have to find my own path and I have to make my own choices. I have to write my own future.
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“He guided me, he helped me. He stood by me in the beginning. But now as an adult, I’m confident enough to make my own choices. Whether it’s good or bad, I have to make it.
“If I succeed, great. If I fail, it’s still great because it was in me. I can’t fail because of something I did that someone else told me to do. I wasn’t going to give him that power or that pressure.
“I wanted it all on me. As a man, I think that’s fair. “But it was hard for him to hear that because he’s always been there my whole life. He has always been one to guide me and tell me what to do and I would follow.
“So, it’s been hard for him to deal with that. That mindset, what I said, wanting to get on with things. He struggled with that.”
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