Legendary boxer Chris Eubank accepted the assessment his son is a "charlatan" and slammed him for his actions while using the iconic family name in recent years.
Chris Jr is a top fighter in his own right, but has never won full world honours and has lost three of his major steps up against world level opposition. Last year, he signed to fight Conor Benn in a family grudge match that harkened back to the rivalry between his dad and Nigel Benn from the '90s, but the career-low weight of 157lb caused a falling out between father and son.
Eubank Sr has said that his son "never listens" and believes that he doesn't even spar ahead of fights nowadays, claiming that former heavyweight champion David Haye warned him of worrying recent training. Eubank Jr was stopped by Liam Smith earlier this year, much to his father's annoyance and embarrassment.
"David Haye called me the other day and said Junior doesn't spar," Eubank told TalkSport. "He does everything that he wants to do, he's got yes men around him. And so it seems to me, by what David Haye tells me, that he's still not listening.
"If you won't listen, then life will teach you what it taught many of the other fighters. It is arrogance when you shut your ears, and what arrogance gets you is what it got him in his last fight. The calibre of Liam Smith does not beat Chris Eubank Jr on my watch. Junior on my watch is not supposed to lose to Liam Smith - on the watch of these PE teachers anything can happen, and anything did."
And Eubank feels that his son has wasted his potential to follow in his footsteps and become a great fighter, believing that his inability to listen to instruction has cost him. Eubank Jr has lost three times as a professional; each of his biggest steps up against Billy Joe Saunders, George Groves and most recently Smith.
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"He has never listened," Eubank continued. "My son could have been a tremendous fighter, he electrified me when watching him, but he hasn't because he doesn't listen, and if you don't listen then you have to feel. The truth will set you free. I did not go missing, he sent me away, you gave me the ability to go away and live my own life. Of course I will accept anything he asks me, but you have to have the humility to ask. Dad is no longer chasing you."
And when co-host Simon Jordan, who is known to have a distaste for Eubank Jr, asked the patriarch if he felt his son was a charlatan, the boxing icon agreed with the assessment. He even took credit for his son's earnings, claiming that he earned as much as $9million (£7.1m) for fights against average contenders such as Avni Yildrim.
"In the world of honesty, how can I disagree with you?" Eubank admitted. "I guess my silence says it all. Truth is truth... Without me, you can't make the money that he's made. There were three fights he had - with fighters who were like Yildirim; $9 million, I got him that. He can't make that kind of money without someone like me, they're paying these guys $60,000 a fight."
