Boxing fan loses his life savings on Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Williams fight

Chris Eubank Jr beat Liam Williams on points – but it wasn’t enough for one fan who had gambled on him winning by stoppage

A boxing fan who claimed to have staked his life savings on Chris Eubank Jr knocking out Liam Williams watched in horror as the fight went the distance.

Eubank Jr knocked his rival down four times but was unable to finish the grudge match inside the distance as Williams hung on to hear the final bell.

Eubank Jr was given the nod by the three judges as he kept alive his hopes of challenging for a world title later this year.

But one fan was seemingly left penniless after placing a bet on Eubank Jr 24 hours before the first bell.

Calum Sovran send the fighter a message on Friday, claiming: “Chris, I’ve just unloaded my life savings onto you to win by stoppage, don’t let me down.”

Eubank Jr posted the message to his own account with the caption: “Now that’s some belief right there.”

Eubank Jr had been the favourite going into the fight and was priced at around 5/4 to win by stoppage.

And after he had dropped Williams three times in the opening four rounds, an early finish looked inevitable.

But Williams composed himself and fought his way back into the contest until he was dropped again in the penultimate round.

Eubank Jr later claimed he could have stopped Williams – but chose to showcase his boxing.

“I thought about it, I didn’t even want to knock him out in the first round, I wanted to punish him, I wanted to get people like that out of boxing,” he said.

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“You saw it, head locks, head butts, I took it like a man and punished him like I said I would do.

“People always tell me I can’t box, apparently I have no jab, so I thought, ‘You know what, let me show these critics some different Chris Eubank Jr’, add some Roy Jones sauce to it.

“There was no danger, if I stepped on the gas at any point in that fight I’d have been gone, but I needed to teach him a lesson.”

“He thought he was something he wasn’t.”