Chris Eubank Jr. Opens Up About His Grief, Living In His Father's Shadow & His Future | E159

I don't do a lot of interviews like this, so there's not a lot of people that do get to see this side of me.

(electronic music playing) Chris Eubank Junior. The biggest fight of his life ...

Growing up, I was always Chris Eubank's son. A lot of people would say, "You're trying to steal your son's limelight." To a certain extent, maybe he was. I- I have to do something here to where people know me for me. (electronic music playing) I got myself into this gang. Some kid had got my number. (crowd cheering) He was like, "Wait till I find you." I went into school with a baseball bat to find this kid. I take the baseball bat out. (electronic music playing) That changed the path of my life.

The first time I went to Dubai, there was a- a young guy there and offered to train me. (electronic music playing) That was your brother.

(electronic music playing) I just started crying, man. It was, you know, one of the worst days of my life. I knew my brother was in Dubai and I didn't go and see him. That would have been the last time I would have saw him before he passed. Um, a man named Nick Blackwell, he got taken to hospital. He actually died on the way to hospital. They had to revive him with a- an adrenaline shot. Those types of incidents are what put things into perspective and make you think about what you're doing.

Have you ever had this conversation with your father about your emotions?

This is too much.

So without further ado, I'm Steven Bartlett, and this is the Diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. (electronic music playing) Chris, one of the really remarkable things about your story that I was, that kind of broke the mold a little bit, was someone that comes from a family, as you described, where you- you did have comfort, because your father was very, very successful in his career, it seems like a little bit of an anomaly that you had such discipline and appetite for struggle and pain. Because usually that comes from, typically, stereotypically, that comes from a background of intense hardship. So I guess where, my question is, like, where did that come from in you? And is that something you saw in all of your siblings?

I always had that very competitive, uh, personality, you know. And before I found boxing, I was heavy into sports in school, cricket, rugby, football, athletics, swimming, um, and I- I just got a high off of competing and winning. Just- just competitive, that's all I- all I wanted to do was test myself against other guys. Um, and then, obviously, when I found boxing, uh, I- I quickly understood that this was the ultimate form of competition. You couldn't get anything more intense, more hardcore, more pure than two guys putting gloves on, getting into the ring, and- and going until somebody can't go anymore.