British boxer Chris Eubank Jr. is about to get paid a handsome sum to step in the ring with Gennady Golovkin.
It appears that Gennady Golovkin’s next fight will take place in the United Kingdom. After many days of negotiations, it looks like the middleweight king will step into the ring with Chris Eubank Jr. in September in the 02 Arena in London.
The Daily Mail reports that the bout is “very close” to being set. Or so they hear from promoter Eddie Hearn, anyway.
Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KO), the British middleweight champion, is expected to make at least three million pounds, which is approximately 593 US dollars. Thanks Brexit! Just kidding, it’s around four million dollars in US currency. He could double that in PPV money as well.
Golovkin (35-0, 32 KO) is the current and reigning IBF, WBO, WBA Super and WBC interim middleweight champion. He’s coming off an easy two-round KO win over Dominic Wade in April. There were many expectations that Golovkin would face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next, but the two camps have come to a deal where they will fight in the fall of 2017 instead.
While Golovkin is apparently fighting Eubank Jr. in his first bout on the path to a collision with Canelo, Alvarez will also be taking on a British fighter in September – Liam Smith.