31 October 2023 , 07:41
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Chris Eubank has spoken out on the ‘soul-destroying’ sight of brother Simon eventually losing his five-year fight with dementia.
The Boxing icon’s brother heart-breakingly died at the age of just 61 last month. He had spent the final few years of his life in a care home.
Simon’s passing came five years after being diagnosed with dementia. Chris, now 57, has opened up on his brother’s battle with frontal lobe dementia and his revealed own concerns about the disease.
The former WBO Middleweight champion of the world said: “He had been living locked in his own body for the last two years. To see someone spasming all the time they’re awake for a year and a half is soul-destroying.”
While Eubank has been left heart-broken by his brother’s death, he has further suggested that he is relieved that his suffering has now been brought to an end. In an interview with The Sun, he added: “My brother always showed me love, he always protected me. Simon saved my life once. He is the one who truly loved me and that is why I recited Corinthians 1:13 at his funeral.
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“It talks about how love is the most powerful of all things, and I recited that for him and for what he did for me. In many respects, it is mercy that he has left us. He is truly at rest now.”
He further added that he had been ‘training’ his own brain in an effort to combat any dementia diagnosis and claimed that he had taken cognitive damage “nowhere like a lot of fighters”.
Chris Eubank pictured with his brother Simon (Instagram)Eubank’s loss of his brother also comes just over two years after his son Sebastian died at the age of just 29 from a heart attack. He is still feeling the immense grief of losing his son.
“I will never get over losing Sebastian,” Eubank said. “That was my boy. You go through weeks of being fine. Then all of a sudden it comes into my mind and I will cry. Spiritually he is in a better place, I know that and I am at peace with that. But the physicality of that loss I will never get over. Ever.”
Following Simon’s passing, Eubank has now taken his son Harlem under his wing and is now playing a pivotal role in his boxing career. The 30-year-old super-lightweight boxer has an undefeated record of 18 fights.
He detailed an emotional chat with his brother Simon after one of Harlem’s bouts and has explained how a “glow came over him and his eyes lit up”. Eubank has also detailed how he believes it was “spiritually ordained” to take Harlem as his own son.