Hearn: I Told Loeffler, Eubank Will Sign For Golovkin Right Now

By Carlos Boogs

Matchroom Sports head Eddie Hearn, who promotes British middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (22-1, 17KOs), says his fighter is not kidding about his desire to face WBC/WBA/IBF/IBO middleweight world champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) in the fall.

Eubank defends his British title on June 25th against unbeaten Tom Doran (17-0). The fight will be part of the Anthony Joshua-Anthony Breazeale undercard at the O2 Arena in London.

Golovkin is in talks to face Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (47-1-1, 33KOs) in the fall, but very few believe the fight is going to come through. Canelo was ordered by the World Boxing Council to defend his belt against Golovkin. Their talks hit a curve last week, when Canelo vacated his title and the sanctioning body named Golovkin as their new champion.

Since Eubank reunited with Matchroom two weeks ago, Hearn has held several conversations with Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who handle Golovkin's career.

He informed Loeffler that Eubank is ready to sign a contract right now, binding himself to a Golovkin fight in the fall.

"Their preference is the Gennady Golovkin fight. It doesn't matter what I think, this is what I've been instructed to do. And as I said to Tom Loeffler last night, and this morning - 'we'll sign now for the fight right now. All of these people who've been messing you around, if you can't be bothered with them, we're ready to go.' And we are ready to go, we're not bluffing. It doesn't matter if I agree with [Eubank Jr.] or not, these are my instructions," Hearn told BoxingScene.com's Declan Taylor.

Hearn wants to stage the fight in the UK and Loeffler told him there is no problem with crossing the pond to make that fight happen.

"I think it would definitely be over here. The most money for that fight is in the UK - unless it was pay-per-view in America and it probably isn't. Tom has no problem coming. Gennady is from Eastern Europe anyway. I think they quite like spreading the brand of Triple G and yeah it's a super-fight in the UK," Hearn said.