By Gregory Stangrit

In recent weeks, British middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18KOs) has continued to demand a fight with IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs).

Golovkin and Eubank Jr. were negotiating for a fight on September 10th at the O2 Arena in London. After several weeks of negotiations, the fight fell apart after Eubank was unable to reach an agreement his own promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport. Eubank had very strange demands, like controlling the UK promotion, the ticket prices and the undercard.

Once the fight fell through, Hearn replaced Eubank with IBF welterweight champion Kell 'Special K' Brook (36-1, 25KOs), who moved up by thirteen pounds to face Golovkin at the full middleweight limit of 160-pounds. Golovkin stopped Brook in five rounds.

Things have not been going well for Eubank as of late. He was scheduled to make a defense of his British title against Tommy Langford next month, but withdrew a few days ago with an injury.

"I've been gunning for this [Golovkin] fight for a long time - I keep saying it and I am going to keep saying it until I am in the ring with him. I want his belts and I'm coming for them, nothing is going to stop me," Eubank said to Sky Sports.

"This is my dream and I have been working for it my entire career, to become middleweight champion. Everyone thinks this guy is untouchable, unbeatable, he's just not."

Oleg Hermann, manager of Golovkin, wants nothing to do with Eubank Jr. or his controversial father/manager, Chris Eubank Sr.

"As far as the Eubanks, we are not going to lose another minute with these clowns. They had a real chance to fight us. They lost it. We won’t be in this position again with this strange family. They should forget about Golovkin for a couple of years. Eubank is not on our list. I’m sure after they saw all of this positive craziness around the GGG-Brook fight - they now regret what they have done. We have a very simple position about their team — we don’t lose time on empty words," Hermann told BoxingScene.com/Allboxing.ru. 

Gregory Stangrit covers boxing for Allboxing.ru