Nick Blackwell has insisted boxing is a safe sport, despite dying after his brutal match against Chris Eubank jr.
The boxer - who technically died after his brutal match with Chris Eubank Jr earlier this year before being placed in an induced coma - said there were more dangerous sports than boxing out there and the fact he's alive proves boxing is safe.
"Boxing is a safe sport and if you look at what happened to me, it shows how much boxing's come on," he explained on Good Morning Britain.
"I'm back to 100 per cent now, I'm back to myself. There's a lot more dangerous sports out there, rugby, F1."
It also looks like Blackwell is in no mood to forgive Chris Eubank senior after the former boxer held a press conference while he was in a coma as he seemed uncomfortable when he was questioned about saying he wanted to land a punch on Chris Eubank senior.
"If I could have one more knockout shot, I'd love to land it on the jaw of Chris Eubank ," he told The Sun previously, but in his interview with Good Morning Britain, he smiled knowingly before claiming he didn't remember saying it.
"I can't actually remember saying that," he grinned to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
"I'm just a little bit disappointed," he added after talking about the Eubank's behaviour after the match.
"I'd always see it if I was in that situation, I'd want to go and see him," he said. "My family begged them not to do it and they went to do it."
He also dismissed suggestions Eubank Sr's advice to his son to stop hitting Blackwell in the head during the match, was for Blackwell's own good, instead calling it 'tactics'.
"No, it was more of a tactical thing. He wanted to hit me in the body to try and get rid of me."
He also insisted that the Eubanks didn't need to hold the press conference and could have easily waited until he woke up.
"When he says he had a lot of pressure to have a press conference, all he could've done is put out a one-liner and say he'd have a press conference when I woke up."
Piers then questioned whether Nick was judging Eubank too harshly, but Nick didn't think he was.
"I haven't got anything about him as a fighter, but as a person, some of things he'd done, I wouldn't have done."
But he conceded that he would sit down with the Eubanks to discuss their differences.
Article courtesy of UK Mirror
The boxer - who technically died after his brutal match with Chris Eubank Jr earlier this year before being placed in an induced coma - said there were more dangerous sports than boxing out there and the fact he's alive proves boxing is safe.
"Boxing is a safe sport and if you look at what happened to me, it shows how much boxing's come on," he explained on Good Morning Britain.
"I'm back to 100 per cent now, I'm back to myself. There's a lot more dangerous sports out there, rugby, F1."
It also looks like Blackwell is in no mood to forgive Chris Eubank senior after the former boxer held a press conference while he was in a coma as he seemed uncomfortable when he was questioned about saying he wanted to land a punch on Chris Eubank senior.
"If I could have one more knockout shot, I'd love to land it on the jaw of Chris Eubank ," he told The Sun previously, but in his interview with Good Morning Britain, he smiled knowingly before claiming he didn't remember saying it.
"I can't actually remember saying that," he grinned to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
"I'm just a little bit disappointed," he added after talking about the Eubank's behaviour after the match.
"I'd always see it if I was in that situation, I'd want to go and see him," he said. "My family begged them not to do it and they went to do it."
He also dismissed suggestions Eubank Sr's advice to his son to stop hitting Blackwell in the head during the match, was for Blackwell's own good, instead calling it 'tactics'.
"No, it was more of a tactical thing. He wanted to hit me in the body to try and get rid of me."
He also insisted that the Eubanks didn't need to hold the press conference and could have easily waited until he woke up.
"When he says he had a lot of pressure to have a press conference, all he could've done is put out a one-liner and say he'd have a press conference when I woke up."
Piers then questioned whether Nick was judging Eubank too harshly, but Nick didn't think he was.
"I haven't got anything about him as a fighter, but as a person, some of things he'd done, I wouldn't have done."
But he conceded that he would sit down with the Eubanks to discuss their differences.
Article courtesy of UK Mirror
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