Boxing: Chris Eubank Jr Rejoins Matchroom with New Deal
Middleweight boxer Chris Eubank Jr. decided to give it another try with Matchroom Boxing after reportedly signing a new deal with the same promotional company he left a year ago. The 26-year-old British fighter will make a ring return next month, June 25, on the Anthony Joshua-Dominic Breazeale card.
The reigning British middleweight titleholder is a rising star in the sport, having won all but one of his 23 fights, with 17 of those wins on knockouts. He once held the WBA interim middleweight belt by defeating previously unbeaten fight Dmitry Chudinov in dramatic fashion, after stopping the Russian in the 12th and final round. He currently is ranked as the ninth best middleweight in the world by The Ring.
According to Bad Left Hook, Eubank Jr is elated to be back with the team that gave him his biggest career fights so far. "It's great to be back on the Matchroom team and I'm really looking forward to fighting again on Sky," he said. The promotional company's head man, Eddie Hearn, knows for a fact that the young fighter has so much potential in him. "He is fast becoming one of the biggest star attractions in the sport and I feel we have the perfect platform in Sky Sports to deliver him the huge fights," the veteran boxing promoter said.
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Eubank Jr and Hearn's first partnership didn't end well when the latter failed to secure the purse bids for the former's fight against Nick Blackwell, per Boxing Scene. That fight turned out to be a huge challenge to Eubank Jr, not because he had a hard time against the former champ Blackwell but because he suffered internal bleeding on the skull, with doctors eventually placing him in an induced coma. Without the intervention of Eubank Jr's father and trainer in the actual fight after noticing that something was wrong, Blackwell could have been killed.
With him back in the fold, obviously one of the first things he wants from Matchroom is to make a rematch with Billy Joe Saunders happen. The fellow British fighter is the only blemish to Eubank Jr's record so far, when he defeated him via split decision two years back.
