Chris Eubank Jr says he wants a fight with Gennady Golovkin next this summer, a fight Kalle Sauerland, his promoter, says would take place at Wembley Stadium. 

Eubank called out the IBF middleweight champion as his ideal next opponent after his unanimous points win over Liam Williams in Cardiff on Saturday night. 

But with the status of Golovkin’s unification fight against Ryota Murata uncertain after it was postponed in December due to a Covid clampdown in Japan, Eubank may have to look elsewhere first. 

“In the perfect world it is a world title shot against Gennady Golovkin next,” Eubank said. “But that is easier said than done, I understand that.  

“It’s about chasing those championship belts or those big names that the fans can really get behind. No more small fights. This wasn’t a small fight, but we want the next ones to capture the public’s imagination like this did and I want to fight at least three times this year.”  

Eubank was due to face Golovkin once before, in 2016, when Kell Brook filled the gap for a fight at the O2 Arena when Eubank failed to agree a deal. 

A quote attributed to Golvokin branded an offer from Eubank as “cheap” adding that he believed he can make just as much money from the fight if it takes place in the United States or his native Kazakhstan. Sauerland, though, said he doubted that Golvokin said it. 

“If the offer of boxing at Wembley Stadium on Sky Box Office is a cheap attempt, I’d like to see the expensive one,” said Sauerland, head of boxing at Wasserman, Eubank’s promoters.  

“I can assure you that we at Wasserman are very well funded to put a massive guarantee behind this fight for them.   

“If it’s the money, which I don’t believe it is, a fight a Wembley Stadium is a big box to tick, even for a legend like Gennady.”  

Brook and Billy Joe Saunders, who handed Eubank his first defeat in 2014, were also mentioned a possible opponent in the summer by BOXXER chief Ben Shalom, while Eubank said he might one day face Conor Benn, son of his father’s biggest rival, Nigel.  

Benn is unbeaten, but boxing at welterweight. 

“It would be crazy, but what fight fan wouldn’t want to see it,” Eubank said. “We’re both doing big things in the boxing world. In a couple of years, of Conor Benn fills out a bit, and I want to have some fun… but not now.”  

Eubank went to the post-fight press conference with his hand wrapped in ice, having said he hurt it after the fourth round.

Eubank knocked down Williams three times in the first four rounds and four times overall, before settling for a wide unanimous points decision win.   

He insisted he had not taken his foot off the gas, but had wanted to punish the Welshman, before pointing to a hand injury as reason why things did not end early.  

Eubank also admitted to biting Williams on the glove, after the Welshman grabbed him in a headlock, saying that he decided to fight dirty after Williams did. There was no sign of the bad feeling between the pair thawing, though. 

“I will always shake a man’s hand after a fight, I think this is the first time I’ve not done that,” Eubank said. “The things he said, it is unforgiveable. Until there is a public apology, that’s not going to happen.   

“Boxing is about levels and he needed to understand that he is not on my level.”  

Ron Lewis is a senior writer for BoxingScene. He was Boxing Correspondent for The Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 - covering four Olympic Games and numerous world title fights across the globe. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.