Chris Eubank Jr | |
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Eubank in 2015
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Real name | Christopher Livingstone Eubank Jr. |
Nickname(s) | Next Gen |
Rated at | |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
Reach | 72 1⁄2 in (184 cm) |
Born |
Hove, East Sussex, England |
18 September 1989
Stance | Orthodox |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 25 |
Wins | 24 |
Wins by KO | 19 |
Losses | 1 |
Christopher Livingstone "Chris" Eubank Jr. (born 18 September 1989) is a British professional boxer. He has held the IBO super-middleweight title since February 2017, having previously held the WBA interim middleweight title in 2015, and the British middleweight title in 2016. He is the son of former two-weight world boxing champion Chris Eubank. As of January 2017, Eubank Jr. is ranked as the world's third best middleweight by BoxRec, and seventh by The Ring magazine and Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. BoxRec also ranks him as the best middleweight in the UK.
Eubank was born in Hove, East Sussex, the son of Chris Eubank and Karron Suzanne Stephen Martin. He was a pupil at Brighton College. Eubank also featured alongside his father in the reality TV series At Home with the Eubanks.
At the age of 16, Eubank and his brother Sebastian moved to the United States to live with a guardian named Irene Hutton. It was explained by their mother Karron as "mere paperwork" and done to enable them to gain dual citizenship without the need to marry, and to enhance their prospects of sporting careers.
Eubank began his amateur career in 2007. With the winning of his sixth amateur fight, he became the Amateur Golden Glove Champion for the State of Nevada in his weight division of 165 lbs. With his eighth amateur fight he became the Amateur Golden Glove Champion for the Western States of the United States in his weight division. Eubank was 1–1 in the 2008 National Golden Gloves. He ended his amateur career with a record of 24-2.