Harlem Eubank spent a while speaking to boxing media following his loss to Jack Catterall over the weekend and expressed his disappointment in how issues have been dealt with, firmly believing it wasn’t a battle that he misplaced however reasonably was taken away from him. Right here’s a few of what he needed to say on the technical choice loss.
Eubank on his response to the loss to Catterall
“There was a whole lot of faux information and stuff being unfold in the course of the battle, a whole lot of narratives. My uncle instructed me if I come right here because the away fighter I must take it out of the judges’ fingers and that’s what I used to be making ready to do, that was the sport plan — make him miss and make him pay late and I used to be catching him clear in the direction of the later rounds and he was edging again and the referee took it out my fingers tonight. I didn’t lose that battle.”
On the confusion over how the battle was stopped
“100%. We was up, able to go. My lower, it was a minor lower. We was trying on the different nook, the ref went over to the opposite nook, my physician accredited all the pieces my aspect…His nook was instructed he couldn’t proceed, it was nothing to do with me. And that was a faux narrative, dwell on the commentary. So-called impartial commentators in his dressing room earlier than the battle and training him up ringside [Carl Frampton]. I’ve not skilled one thing like that.
“I really feel like I’ve be accomplished soiled this night. I used to be finishing up the sport plan to a T, and that was to make him miss and to make him pay late, and in the event you watch my championship fights after I take out my opposition that’s precisely how I execute a recreation plan and the referee took that away from me tonight in not letting Jack Catterall proceed.”
On believing he was approaching within the battle when it was stopped
“He’s a destructive fashion fighter so I took it away from him and that was the sport plan, and make him pay late. And I used to be beginning to make him pay, I used to be beginning to land clear pictures and a number of the issues I see with the commentary, it’s the go alongside to get alongside gang. And my uncle warned me, he mentioned ‘in the event you come right here it’s worthwhile to take it away from them.’ There’s something, disdain towards the Eubank identify and I’ve skilled it right here tonight.”