Chris Eubank Jr

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.

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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.

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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.

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By Scott Gilfoid: If you want to look any one area in Chris Eubank Jr’s game that will limit his chances of success against unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs), it’s his lack of power. Eubank Jr. simply does not punch hard enough for him to keep a knockout artist like GGG off of him.

Without Eubank Jr. having enough pop in his punches to gain the respect of Golovkin, it means he’s going to be getting hit an awful lot by the Kazakhstan fighter for as long as their fight lasts. It’s hard for me to understand why Eubank Jr. can’t punch. I don’t know why. I just know that he lacks the spark that you like to see from a fighter when it comes to the power department. Eubank Jr. is more of a high volume type of guy than a puncher.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) didn’t react too well earlier today to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) asking the Twitter world, ‘Who’s ready for a fight?” Eubank Jr. immediately fired off both barrels at GGG, saying that he knows who he’ll be fighting next.

Eubank Jr. added that he’s going to forcefully take the belts from Golovkin and bring them back to the UK, where he plans on keeping them for ages. If this pipe dream does work out like Eubank Jr. sees in his vision, then I sure hope he doesn’t keep the IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC belts hostage while he defends them against the likes of Tom Doran. I mean, Eubank Jr. hasn’t been exactly setting the world on fire lately with his gawd awful opposition he’s been fighting.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions is working on finalizing the deal between his fighter IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and the Matchroom Sport promoted Chris Eubank Jr. for a fight that could take place in either late August or early September at the O2 Arena in London, England.

Golovkin, 34, will have all four of his 160lb titles on the line for the fight against #2 WBA, #2 WBC Eubank Jr.

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By Rishad Marquardt: In the last few months, the momentum of Chris Eubank Jr’s ascent into the upper tier of the middleweight division has become ever more evident from his increased media exposure and increased airtime on big fight undercards. The Blackwell fight, and its momentarily gruesome aftermath, further underlined Eubank Jr’s emboldening presence in the British and, to a certain extent, international boxing scene.

While some may argue this is largely down to him sharing the Eubank name with his father, a figure with a thrilling career himself in the fight game, it would be grossly unfair to deny Eubank Jr of the credit he deserves for his endeavors in the ring up to this point.

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