By Scott Gilfoid: WBA interim middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr 19-1, 14 KOs) is at it once again in name dropping IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s name, and saying he thinks he’s slow, beatable and with vulnerabilities that he thinks he can exploit when/if the two of them ever face each other.
Eubank Jr has a mismatch scheduled against 39-year-old #13 WBA Tony Jeter (20-4-1-KO14) on the undercard of the Kell Brook vs. Diego Chaves card on October 24th at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Why is Eubank Jr fighting an older fighter ranked so low is unclear?
It stands to reason that if Eubank Jr thinks he can beat Golovkin, then he should at least be fighting better opposition than Jeter, shouldn’t he? How about Eubank Jr fighting one of these fighters: Tureano Johnson, Peter Quillin, Arif Magomedov, Dominic Wade, Willie Monroe Jr, Antoine Douglas, Alfonso Blanco or Billy Joe Saunders.
“Christopher [Eubank Jr] has the beating of him [Golovkin]. It’s a tough fight but Junior beats him in my view. It’s going to be a fabulous chase for us because we are chasing,” Chris Eubank Sr said to skysports.com. “He beats him now.”
Eubank Jr has far too many flaws in his game to defeat Golovkin in my view, and I don’t know that he’s ever going to get rid of those flaws until he gets a new trainer, which I don’t think he’ll ever do. Eubank Jr likes to freeze and admire his work after he throws single shots. Eubank Jr freezes in a pose after he throws pot shots. He’s a pot shot fighter, which is not the type of fighter that beats a quality fighter.
I’m not even talking about Golovkin. Eubank Jr will not beat the better contenders like Tureano Johnson, Quillin, Blanco, Saunders, Wade, Monroe Jr, Douglas and Magomedov with his current style. You can’t beat guys like that by throwing a single shot and then posing after you throw it. Those fighters will keep throwing shots and will badly outwork Eubank Jr, which is what Saunders did.
Someone needs to unlearn Eubank Jr of all the posing stuff that he does in the ring, and teach him to be fluid and fight in a normal way without him being so conscious of the cameras and trying to look good.
“He’s [Golovkin] got weaknesses that I feel I can exploit, so the goal is to work towards that fight. It’s a huge fight down the line,” Eubank Jr said via skysports.com. “He’s [Golovkin] easy to hit and he’s slow. Those are the weakness I see and I think I can exploit in my opinion. I don’t think he’s had a defining fight. I don’t think he’s fought anyone who’s really been there to try and win.”
It’s too bad Eubank Jr’s talent doesn’t match his self-promoting because it would be a good fight between him and Golovkin if Eubank Jr was actually as good as he makes himself out to be. But in reality, I see Eubank Jr as a bottom feeder in the middleweight division. He’s just not very good. Yeah, he has the interim WBA 160lb title in his possession, but he didn’t have to beat anyone any good to pick up the belt. Eubank Jr only had to beat Dmitry Chudinov to win the strap.
Chudinov is the brother of WBA super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov. Dmitry is considered by many boxing fans to be nowhere as good as Fedor. If Eubank Jr had to beat someone really good for the interim WBA title, like Tureano Johnson, I don’t think he would have the title today. He’s be 19-2, and hopefully not telling people he can beat Golovkin. As it is, you can’t take Eubank Jr seriously because he looked so God awful against Saunders, and he was just as awful against Chudinov.
Right now you have to question whether a fight between Golovkin and Eubank Jr will ever take place, because Eubank Jr has already beaten by Billy Joe Saunders, a fighter that Golovkin would likely slice through like a hot knife through butter. Eubank Jr hasn’t avenged that loss, and there obviously better fighters out there at 160 than Saunders. If Eubank Jr can’t even beat Saunders then what does that tell you about him? It suggests that Eubank Jr is good at self-promoting by talking himself up, but he’s not so good at backing up his talk.
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