IT IS 32 years and eight months since anybody known as Eubank has boxed in the household’s long-time hometown of Brighton.
But on Friday night time Harlem Eubank, the nephew of Christopher Livingstone, takes up the mantle on the seafront in the hardest take a look at of his profession up to now when he takes on Timo Schwarzkpof.
It was February 23, 1991, when Eubank Snr beat Dan Sherry at Brighton’s Conference Centre, a homecoming struggle of types, simply three months after his massively vital victory over Nigel Benn in Birmingham. He would by no means field down there once more, with Chris Jnr not boxing there in any respect.
But now Harlem, whose birthday additionally occurs to be February 23, is the man to get the household name’s again up in lights by the sea. “You could say that this has been my destiny,” he mentioned. “That it was meant to be and was written in the stars, but this isn’t going to be a one-off, I want to make this the first of many big nights of boxing in my city.”
This first outing isn’t any walkover, with the 22-5 (13) Kosovo-born German Schwarzkopf on the town to spoil the get together. Although he’s solely 32, he has been a professional for 13 years and even boxed Junior Witter a decade in the past. British followers may additionally be acquainted with him from his 10-round unanimous resolution loss to Jack Catterall in Dubai in 2019.
He is a sharp puncher and all however one of his 13 stoppages up to now have come inside the opening 4 rounds however Harlem, nonetheless undefeated, is greater than succesful of staying out of any severe bother towards Schwarzkopf. As effectively as Catterall, the customer has dropped 10-round choices to the likes of Chris van Heerden and Anthony Yigit and anticipate him to do the similar right here.
Although Eubank, who’s now being guided by his famous uncle, must do it over 12 as he packing containers the full distance for the first time in his profession. His slick abilities ought to enable him to field his option to a clear factors win however a stoppage right here, towards a man by no means overwhelmed inside the distance, could be a assertion dwell on Channel 5.
Since getting into the staff following the dying of his brother and Harlem’s father Simon in September, Eubank Snr has declared that this will probably be his nephew’s last struggle at 140lbs as he plots a path in the direction of a welterweight encounter with Conor Benn, nonetheless at the moment in talks about a struggle with Eubank Jnr. Those two are anticipated to conflict early in 2024 however ought to that struggle fall via, Senior says he has one other Eubank prepared and ready to step in.
“Conor Benn, this is the fight for you,” Senior mentioned concerning Harlem. “He’s 147lbs. You’re not 154lbs, you’re certainly not 160lbs. You’re a great fighter. I think he’s a great fighter. Certainly a greater boxer. This bad blood you’re supposed to have with my son. There’s no bad blood there, he’s only interested in money. But Harlem is interested in actually being No.1.”
First factor’s first, nevertheless, no slip ups at the Brighton Centre towards Schwarzkopf.
A late addition to this card was super-middleweight contender Lerrone Richards, who has signed a long-term promotional take care of Wasserman, which kicks off with an eight-rounder towards Blackburn’s Mickey Ellison right here.
The Carshalton man has been out in the chilly considerably since his career-best win over Carlos Gongora in December 2021. He has boxed simply as soon as since, a four-round demolition of Harry Matthews, however will probably be hoping this new hyperlink up will pave the method again in the direction of the prime of the division.
Eubank will not be the solely native man in motion as Shoreham heavyweight Tommy Welch additionally packing containers right here for the first time as a skilled. The 28-year-old son of ‘Brighton Rock’ Scott, who can also be his coach, makes his fourth look of 2023 in an eight-rounder towards the 5-0 Johnathan Vergaga, who represents the first undefeated opponent of his profession.
Another of Welch’s fighters, Tiernan Bradley, can also be in motion as he meets Polish customer Michal Bulik over six at super-lightweight. The Dublin man is 7-0 and can field in his adopted hometown of Brighton for the first time on a sizzling streak of 5 consecutive inside-distance wins. Bulik, in the meantime, was stopped by Campbell Hatton in 5 in May and one other stoppage is probably going right here.
In the card’s solely 10-rounder, there may be a run-out for Kazakhstan’s big-punching southpaw Sultan Zaurbek however at the time of writing there was no opponent assigned. Earlier, in the first struggle of the worldwide broadcast, there may be a debut for the extremely rated Wickford man Tom Welland, who faces Spain’s Francisco Rodriguez over 4.
There can also be a 4 rounder for Tyson’s Fury’s brother Roman, 27, who fights out of Manchester. Fury beat Erik Nazaryan over 4 in his final outing, on June 16, and he’ll face 1-5-1 Liverpudlian Bradley Davies at the Brighton Centre.
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