By Scott Gilfoid: Chris Eubank Jr. doesn’t seem to be too happy about IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) agreeing to fight Eubank Jr’s fellow countryman Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Eubank Jr. claims that Golovkin won’t be respected by anyone in the UK or elsewhere.
Golovkin offered the fight to Eubank Jr. but he didn’t agree to the contract, according to his promoter Eddie Hearn, who says that the Eubanks wanted operational control of the fight. By not agreeing to fight Golovkin, Eubank Jr. misses out on the biggest payday of his career that could made him millions.
By Patrick McHugh: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) took to social medial on Saturday to take a shot at Chris Eubank Jr. and his father Chris Eubank for them missing out on what would have been a very lucrative fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) for September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, UK.
According to their promoter Eddie Hearn, he gave them a deadline to agree to the contract for the Golovkin fight, and they let the deadline pass without agreeing to it. Hearn then made the same offer to IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook and readily accepted.
Brook is now Golovkin’s opponent for September 10, and will be getting a career high payday win or lose.
By Allan Fox: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says he wants to match his fighter Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) against the winner of the September 10 fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs). Hearn attempted to put together a fight between Eubank Jr. and Golovkin recently, but he couldn’t hammer out the deal.
Eubank Jr. reportedly froze when it came time for him to agree to the contract. Hearn needed Eubank Jr. to quickly agree because he had a short timeline before Golovkin and his team would move on and look for another opponent.
By Dan Ambrose: Chris Eubank Jr’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he gave him and his father Chris Eubank Sr. a deadline for them to agree to the contract terms for a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for a fight in September, but they let the deadline pass without agreeing to what he had asked them. You have to wonder whether Eubank Jr. and his father Chris Eubank Sr. were ever really serious about wanting to fight Golovkin. There are some who believe that they used this Golovkin fight opportunity for publicity purposes rather than have true interest in fighting him. They would have made a fortune if they had agreed to the contract and signed.
Hearn feels that the Eubanks might have thought he was bluffing when it came to his deadline. He wasn’t though. When the deadline passed, Hearn went ahead and offered the same deal terms that he had offered the Eubanks to IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, and he readily agreed. So instead of Eubank Jr. fighting Golovkin next, it’ll be Brook fighting the Kazakhstan fighter on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, England.
By Dan Ambrose: If you were wondering why IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) is the one that will be facing IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) on September 10 instead of #2 WBA, #2 WBC 160lb contender Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs), it’s because Eubank Jr. stalled when it came to signing the contract for the Golovkin fight.
According to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler, the contract was presented to Eubank Jr., but he didn’t sign. The same contract was taken by Eubank Jr’s promoter Eddie Hearn and presented to Brook, and he immediately agreed to the contract and signed. When you snooze you lose, and Eubank Jr. just missed out on a life-changing fight and payday.
By Patrick McHugh: Heavyweight contender Chris Arreola is one of IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s many fans, as he’s looking forward to his potential upcoming fight against Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) in September if the fight gets made. Arreola sees the fight as a stylistic match-up involving Golovkin’s “Mexican style” of fighting going up against Eubank Jr’s “boxer” style.
Arreola isn’t saying which of the two will win the fight, but it would seem that he believes Golovkin will do the job. Arreola sees GGG as the top pound-for-pound fighter in the sport right now. Eubank Jr. isn’t seen as the top guy by boxing fans. He’s more of an unfinished product with a lot of potential and a great of unknowns with his game.
By Scott Gilfoid: Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) says he has his pen in his hand and he’s ready and willing to sign the contract for a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) as soon as he’s given the contract for him to sign. Presumably, Eubank Jr. is waiting for his promoter Eddie Hearn to send him the contract over. Hearn has been silent today, so he’s possibly working on the contract to get it ready to be signed.
Earlier on Wednesday, Golovkin sent out the following Tweet: “Everything agreed from our side, now waiting for Chris Eubank Jr, who all of a sudden has lost his pen.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Well, as I expected, the negotiations between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Chris Eubank Jr. have ground to a halt after Golovkin agreed to all the terms for the fight. Golovkin and his team are waiting to see if the 26-year-old Eubank will put ink to paper to sign the contract.
It’s not happening thus far, and there are many in the boxing worlds that feel that Eubank Jr. doesn’t really want the fight. Golovkin’s management reportedly plan on moving on quickly if Eubank Jr. chooses not to sign the contract. Golovkin wants to fight in the next in the next two months with or without Eubank Jr.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) took to Twitter on Wednesday to say he’s agreed to everything in the negotiations for his title defense against the popular British fighter Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) for a fight between them in the coming months. However, Golovkin says that Eubank Jr. seems have “lost his pen.”
This is what I was afraid of. Golovkin and his promoter Tom Loeffler putting the effort and hard work into the negotiations only to see Eubank Jr. freeze when it comes to the moment for him to sign the contract. What can you say though? That’s why I liked the idea of Loeffler giving Eubank Jr. a hard 48 hour deadline for him to put pen to paper. That way Loeffler and Golovkin could quickly have moved on if the contract wasn’t signed. The last thing Golovkin needs is to spend weeks/months on negotiations with Eubank Jr. for a fight that fails to pan out. The wasted effort on Golovkin’s part for the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight should be a learning tool for future negotiations with other fighters.
This is so, so sad. I’m really disappointed in Eubank Jr. I was hoping he would have already put his John Hancock on the contract by now so that he can try and back up his bold talk, but I wondering if he’s having second thoughts.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former fighter Glenn McCrory thinks Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) needs more experience before facing IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs).
McCrory sees it as being too soon for the 26-year-old Eubank Jr. to move up from the domestic level class where he’s been fighting at to the uppermost level of the 160lb division to face Golovkin. If Eubank Jr. does end up getting the fight against Triple G this year, McCrory sees him getting taken apart by GGG. It’s too much too soon for Eubank Jr. to take that giant move up in class.
