"I've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire", says ex-boxing champ.Byline: ANI London, Aug 14 (ANI): Retired British boxing champion Chris Eubank Chris Eubank (born Christopher Livingstone Eubanks on August 8 1966) is a boxing legend and British celebrity who held the WBO Middleweight and Super Middleweight titles. has lost his famous lisp LISP: see programming language. LISP Powerful computer programming language designed for manipulating lists of data or symbols rather than processing numerical data, used extensively in artificial-intelligence applications. after spending 31,000 pounds on dental work, but has gained a comic whistle. "Officially, the lisp has gone. However, I now have a whistle. I've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire Out of the frying pan into the fire is a phrase which can be used in one of two ways. It can be used in the same way as "from bad to worse," which as the wording suggests means going from an unpleasant situation to one even more so - or it can describe the belief that one has ," The Sun quoted Eubank, as saying. "I certainly wasn't expecting it. Everyone thinks it's hilarious. But, at least I prefer the whistle to the lisp," he added. Eubank had the massive makeover done at the Dublin surgery of top cosmetic dentist Barry Buckley, where he was fitted with 28 porcelain crowns and closed the gap, which was responsible for his speech impediment. "As soon as the anesthetic wore off I was talking to the dentist and I could hear the whistling. It was funny - but not as funny as the lisp," Eubank said. The 43-year-old, who had held the WBO WBO World Boxing Organization WBO Western Buddhist Order WBO Wehrbeschwerdeordnung WBO World Bamboo Organization (formerly International Bamboo Association) WBO Won by One (Malibu, California; a cappella group) Middleweight and Super Middleweight titles, and retired from the ring in 1998, hopes that the whistle would gradually fade away as he gets used to his new mouth. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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