By Edward Chaykovsky

According to Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18KOs), promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport backdoored him in the negotiations several months ago for a September fight with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.

There were serious negotiations taking place, but the fight fell apart after Hearn says Eubank Jr. failed to meet several deadlines to finalize the deal.

After the last deadline came and went, Hearn offered the fight to IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, who accepted the fight very quickly. Brook moved up by thirteen pounds and he was stopped in the fifth round of the contest.

Eubank says that he stood his ground on several demands that his team was requesting, while Brook was willing to accept anything that Hearn threw his way.

Back when the talks fell apart, Hearn told reporters that Eubank and his father, Chris Eubank Sr., were making several over the top demands - like controlling nearly every aspect of the event - like ticket prices, undercard fights, who called the pay-per-view broadcast.

"Eddie saw an easy way out. He saw a way to make things easier for himself by giving the fight away to Kell. We we in negotiations, we were negotiating everything for the fight and we were close to getting it completely done but we’re not rollovers. We’re not just going to accept everything you tell us. We’re not yes-men. We’re fighters and we’re gonna take what we deserve, whereas obviously Kell was like ‘listen, yes’ to everything that Eddie wanted," Eubank told IFL TV.

Eubank Jr. will return to the ring on February 4th, at super middleweight, against IBO world champion Renold Quinlan. He believes the Golovkin fight will still go down later on in the year.

"People ask me was I was upset, was I was pissed off.... it was a missed opportunity but at the same time everything happens for a reason and that fight is still there to be made. It will still happen, and I believe it will happen in 2017," Eubank Jr. said.