Chris Eubank recognisable celebrities of the period. In his final two years of boxing he challenged then-up and coming contender Joe Calzaghe in a bid to reclaim his WBO super-middleweight title, with a victorious Calzaghe later claiming that it was the toughest fight of his whole career. Eubank's last two fights were against WBO junior-heavyweight champion Carl Thompson, both of which were brutal encounters. In the rematch, Eubank was stopped for the first and only time in his career. Eubank is credited for his bravery in the ring, in which he was able to take considerable amounts of punishment from power punchers
Chris Avalos Chris Avalos Christopher Matthew "Chris" Avalos (born November 5, 1989 in Lancaster, California) is a Mexican American professional boxer who competes at bantamweight, where he is the current WBO NABO Bantamweight Champion. On April 24, 2010 Avalos stopped the veteran John Alberto Molina to win the WBO NABO Bantamweight Championship. In August 2010, Avalos lost to an undefeated Christopher Martin Peña at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota. The bout was televised on a Showtime undercard. In February 2015 Avalos was defeated in the 5th round by Carl Frampton in Belfast challenging him for the IBF World Super Bantamweight championship.