I could never agree with being taken out of line of fire, says Chris Eubank Jnr

Chris Eubank Jnr understands why his father would want to pull him out of a fight if he was taking the same kind of punishment as Nick Blackwell — but as a “warrior” could never agree with the decision.

Blackwell, 25, has been in an induced coma after collapsing at the end of Saturday’s British middleweight title defeat by Eubank and was found to have suffered a small bleed on the brain.

Referee Victor Loughlin stopped the fight in the 10th round because of the horrific swelling around Blackwell’s left eye, but only shortly after Chris Eubank Snr had told his son to aim his shots at his opponent’s body rather than his head.