Eubank Sr: We're Looking To Make The Golovkin Fight ASAP!
Chris Eubank Jnr has moved into contention for a world title fight later this year after stopping Australia's Renold Quinlan in 10 rounds at London's Olympia.
The victory - in his maiden fight at super-middleweight and the first on the new ITV Box Office platform - saw the 27-year-old win the IBO belt he says should be treated as a true world title.
It remains to be seen whether he will return to middleweight or remain at 168lbs, but there is little question greater tests than the little-known Quinlan await.
“This is my ticket to the big time to challenge all the other world champions in the middleweight division and super middleweight division,” said Eubank Jr.
"So I guess It’s whoever steps up first. Andre Ward is not in the super middleweight or middleweight divisions. We’re chasing James DeGale, then that’s what we shall do. I sparred with him many years ago. "
"I know what he is, and I know what I can do to him. That’s the fight people want to see, and now we have the platform. There are great fights to be made, and I’m right in the mix now. "
Chris Eubank Sr. believes Gennady Golovkin is a fight that would have fight fans drooling.
"At middleweight, they’re talking about Golovkin, and we’re going to be negotiating with him too," said Eubank Sr. "Where Golovkin is concerned, we’re looking to make that fight ASAP at middleweight. Those are the two he has in mind.
"At middleweight, it’s Golovkin because we got swindled out of that fight in 2016. We got swindled out of that fight. Now those guys are to the side. Now we can plow ahead and make up for lost time. We only lost six months. He’s been right on target."
It took until the end of the third round for Eubank Jnr to begin to impose himself when landing numerous punches as they fought on the inside by the ropes, and until a left hook in the fourth for Quinlan, also 27, to briefly appear hurt.
The eighth and ninth became increasingly one-sided, as the aggressive Briton landed with ease and the resilient Australian clung on in a period when referee Howard Foster should have waved the action over.
The 10th remained similarly damaging until, with the tough Quinlan no longer able to defend himself from Eubank Jnr's latest barrage, Foster ended the fight after two minutes and seven seconds to protect him from further punishment.
