By Elliot Foster

Eddie Hearn doesn’t believe Chris Eubank Jr. saw a contract to fight Gennady Golovkin.

The Matchroom Sport head honcho backed up the British middleweight champion (23-1, 18 KOs), who he promotes, on social media.

Hearn did so just hours after making the Golovkin fight for one of his other champions, Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs), for the WBA Super, WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight titles, on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and HBO in the States.

Eubank Jr., who after stopping Tom Doran inside four rounds on June 25 was set to face Golovkin in an all-middleweight showdown in the autumn, claims that he had never seen a contract to fight the Kazakh (35-0, 32 KOs) –– and that is something Hearn agrees with.

The second generation, 26, took to Twitter in the aftermath of the Golovkin-Brook confirmation to firstly slate the match-up by calling it “a joke” and saying that Brook, the IBF welterweight world champion, is too small before saying he is “still ready and waiting to sign” a contract “I haven’t been shown since my fight with GGG was announced.”

The fight was never officially announced, but pictures of the pair surfaced on social media before an exchange of words

Questions of the legitimacy of Eubank Jr.’s claims then began to arise on social media but Hearn dispelled such gossip by saying: “I’m pretty sure [Chris Eubank Jr] wanted the fight [against Gennady Golovkin].

“I’m certain he wouldn’t have [seen a contract to fight GGG because] the fighter sees it when it’s presented to sign.”

And with the revelation to Kugan Cassius of iFL TV that he is “not allowed” to speak to Eubank Jr. and that all the negotiations for a Golovkin showdown –– or the negotiations for any Eubank Jr. fight –– go through his father, the former world champion Chris Eubank Sr., it’s difficult to see how or why it would be said if it wasn’t true.

Eubank Jr. still has one fight remaining on his newly signed two-fight promotional deal with Matchroom but it remains to be seen in which direction he and his father opt to go after failing to secure the mega-fight they had so craved.