Chris Eubank Jr

Eubank Jr. says he’ll outwork Golovkin

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By Scott Gilfoid: Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17 KOs) believes he’ll beat IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) when they face each other in the near future. Unlike other fighters, Eubank Jr. is not intimidated by Triple G. He sees him as a slow fighter with good punching power, but with poor defensive skills that he can take advantage of when he gets him inside the ring.

Eubank Jr., 26, has already formulated how he’ll beat the 34-year-old Kazakhstan fighter by throwing more punches than him. For every one of Golovkin’s punches, Eubank Jr. says he’ll come back with three to five punches of his own.

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Can Hearn get Eubank Jr. the Golovkin fight?

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By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBA, #3 WBC Chris Eubank Jr. recently signed a new two-fight contract with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Sport promotional company, and Eubank Jr. reportedly wants a title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin before the end of the year.

Hearn says he’s made an offer to Golovkin’s promoters at K2 to make the fight happen with Eubank Jr. Hearn believes it’s the second biggest money fight available to Golovkin behind only the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight.

The question is can Hearn deliver the fight for the 26-year-old Eubank Jr? The other question is what happens if Hearn doesn’t get the fight for Eubank Jr. against Golovkin? Will Eubank Jr. leave Matchroom Sport when his promotional contract expires or will he re-up with them despite their failure to land him the fight he wants against Golovkin? There’s got to be some pressure on Hearn to try and make the fight with Golovkin in order to keep Eubank Jr. and his father happy.

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Hearn: Golovkin vs. Eubank Jr. will happen in 2016

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By Dan Ambrose: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says a fight between his fighter #2 WBA, #3 WBC Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17 KOs) and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) will be taking place in 2016 in September, October, November or December.

Hearn is confident the fight will take place. He says he’s made an offer to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler. Whether he accepts the offer is unclear, but Hearn says it’s the second most money Triple G can make behind Canelo. He believes it’s a fight that can definitely get made.

Eubank Jr. will be fighting (Tom Doran 17-0, 7 KOs) next month on the undercard of Dominic Breazeale vs. Anthony Joshua on June 25 at the O2 Arena in London, UK. This is another mismatch for the 26-year-old Eubank Jr. similar to his last fight against Nick Blackwell but far worse. Doran is not in Blackwell’s league and he’s going to be in trouble against Eubank Jr.

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Chris Eubank Jr. targeting Gennady Golovkin

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eubank100By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBA, #3 WBC Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17 KOs) says if it were up to him, he would be fighting for a world title against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, because he feels he’s got the talent to beat the Kazakhstan fighter. Eubank Jr., 26, says he wants to fight for a world title by the end of 2016. He doesn’t say who he’ll be fighting at that time, as there are three champions in the middleweight division right now in Golovkin, WBA champ Daniel Jacobs and WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders.

Eubank Jr. will need to keep winning if he wants to fight any of those guys. He has a fight against unbeaten domestic level fighter Tom Doran (17-0, 7 KOs) next month on the Anthony Joshua vs. Dominic Breazeale card on June 25 on Sky Box Office PPV.

I rate Doran as a step down from Eubank Jr’s previous opponent Nick Blackwell. Eubank Jr. looks like he’s going to be continually matched weakly right up to the point where he’s thrown in the ring with the likes of Golovkin and/or Jacobs or Saunders.

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Chris Eubank Jr. added to Joshua-Breazeale card on June 25

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eubank4333By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBA middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17 KOs) has inked with Matchroom Sport in a new promotional contract. The addition of the 26-year-old Eubank Jr. to Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom stable is turning that promotional company into a giant.

I’ve never seen anything like it with one promotional company becoming so huge. It reminds me the type of huge companies we saw during the gilded age when John D. Rockefeller was around with his Standard Oil.

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Saunders to face Golovkin or Eubank Jr. in HUGE summer fight

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saunders5By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) has revealed that he has plans on a big summer fight against either Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17 KOs) or Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs). Saunders, 26, isn’t saying which of the two he’ll be facing in the summer.

Either way, he could have a tough time beating either of them. The fight against Golovkin will likely only happen if the unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion agrees to fight Saunders in the UK, which might not happen. Golovkin and his promoter Tom Loeffler will likely choose to stay out of the ring until they find out if they’ll be getting the unification fight against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in September.

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What’s next after last Saturday night

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1-WardBarrera_Hoganphotos3By Gav Duthie: There was quite an interesting night of boxing on Saturday night with action in the UK and US. Its been a relatively quiet March and although my interest was registered last night all of the fights were predictable in their outcomes. The question is what next for these talents.

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25 years on from his father unwittingly putting Michael Watson in a coma his son has done the same thing. Eubank Jnr has wished his opponent Nick Blackwell a speedy recovery as he is in an induced coma to reduce swelling for bleeding in his skull. Our thoughts are with Nick and his family.

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The inevitable question, and its only answer

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eubank663By Adam Godfrey: An August 2013 article produced by The New Scientist entitled ‘Ban boxing-it’s demeaning and dangerous’ claims that ‘a sport whose sole aim is to cause brain damage to another person is not a “noble art”. It has no place in a civilized society’. These two sentences beautifully sum up the misunderstanding that those who do not religiously follow boxing have when it comes to our fine sport.

The fallacy that boxing is, at its core, about damaging an opponent to the greatest extent possible could not have been expressed any more perfectly. Claiming that the sole aim of the art is to cause somebody brain damage is unequivocal nonsense. I know of not one boxing fan that revels in seeing a boxer seriously hurt. We enjoy a clean, heavy knockout because of the skill it involves or the drama it creates, and are, to a man, relieved when those on the receiving end of such blows recover.

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Eubank Jr. says he eased off on Blackwell towards the end

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eubank55By Scott Gilfoid: Former British middleweight champion Nick Blackwell is in a medically induced coma in a UK hospital after taking a beating against the highly ranked #2 WBA Chris Eubank Jr. last Saturday night in their fight in the UK. The referee halted the fight in the 10th round at the advice of the ringside doctor due to swelling in Blackwell’s left eye.

Blackwell then collapsed later on and was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for a reported brain bleed. Eubank Jr. says his father Chris Eubank Sr. had told him to stop targeting Blackwell’s head during the second half of the fight, as Blackwell was getting beaten up and the referee wasn’t stepping to stop the fight.

Eubank Jr. says he eased off on Blackwell later in the fight and stopped going after him with head shots.

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Can we improve the safety of prizefighting without sacrifice its essence?

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eubank55By Gerardo Granados: Through the years many measures have been implemented to improve the safety of prizefighting. Back in the late 1800´s we can find the purest and most brutal practice of boxing. In the early 1980´s reduction from the 15 round title bouts to 12 rounds must have benefited boxers, but it left many of us fight fans, feeling nostalgic of those epic 15 round battles.

Although I respect and admire all men and women who became prize fighters, I demand from all of them what I saw as a kid. I grew up watching boxing since I can remember. The type of fights that I saw as a kid seems to be on the verge of extinction, but maybe that shouldn’t anger me and instead I should feel satisfied because now boxers are exposed to fewer risks. It is OK for us boxing fans to see MMA fighters to tap out, but we won’t forgive a boxer who in our eyes still is able to continue to fight but instead chooses to quit.

After have reviewed the Prichard Colon vs Terrell Williams bout, that took place last October 2015, I can only conclude that professional boxing is as dangerous as it has ever been. There were low blows and rabbit punches connected and even that not all of those punches seem to be intentional; a disqualification could have been ruled.

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