{"id":234114,"date":"2025-10-30T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:08:07","slug":"steve-collins-fought-both-nigel-benn-and-chris-eubank-sr-twice-and-has-no-doubt-who-hit-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234114\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Collins Fought Both Nigel Benn And Chris Eubank Sr Twice And Has No Doubt Who Hit Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish boxer Steve Collins remains defeated both Nigel Benn<\/a> and Chris Eubank<\/a> Sr.<\/p>\n

These three were involved in some of the most memorable super-middleweight clashes of their era along with the likes of Michael Watson and emerging talent like Robin Reid and Joe Calzaghe.<\/a><\/p>\n

Collins fought Benn and Eubank Sr twice during the 1990s<\/a>, firstly beating Eubank in March 1995 when he won by unanimous decision and ended his rival\u2019s long unbeaten streak as well as taking the WBO super-middleweight title off him.<\/p>\n

The pair fought again in September of that same year when once again Collins came out victorious and defended his title successfully in another close, bruising battle. Not a year later, Collins went into the ring with the fearsome and famously aggressive Benn, scoring two stoppage wins back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Ring Magazine, Collins admitted it was \u2018The Dark Destroyer\u2019 who did most damage with his shots out of the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigel Benn hit the hardest. I don\u2019t even think Benn knew how hard he hit to be honest (laughs). Nigel caught me flush in the first fight and I thought he had broken all of my teeth and this horrible taste filled my mouth. I actually felt sick to my stomach and nobody had ever hit me like that before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins fought twice more in 1997, beating Frederic Seillier and Craig Cummings to defend his belt before hanging up his gloves for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish boxer Steve Collins remains defeated both Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr. These three were involved in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}