- Commissioner’s statement on Ventura, Marte
- Ronnie O’Sullivan: Masters champion ‘felt so vulnerable’ in final
- Arron Fletcher Wins 2017 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech Main Event ($140,224)
- Smith challenges Warner to go big in India
- Moncada No. 1 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Braves land 2 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Kingery makes MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- New Zealand wrap up 2-0 after Bangladesh implosion
- Mathews, Pradeep, Gunathilaka to return to Sri Lanka
- Elliott hopes for rain for Poli
Eubank Jr ‘meant no disrespect’
- Updated: September 12, 2016
Chris Eubank Jr says he meant no disrespect to Kell Brook when he questioned the decision to pull him out of his clash with Gennady Golovkin in the fifth round.
Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle threw in the towel after WBA ‘Super’, IBF and WBC middleweight champion Golovkin caught his fighter with a series of unanswered blows.
Eubank challenged Golovkin straight after his win at the O2, writing on Twitter: “If you want a fight with a real British Middleweight…come get some. My corner don’t own towels.”
The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) is set to discuss Eubank Jr’s comment on Wednesday, with sanctions possible, but the 26-year-old told Sky Sports he meant nothing untoward.
“It wasn’t meant as any disrespect to anybody, it’s just the fact of how I have been brought up as a fighter to hold myself in the ring. You don’t look to try and end the fight – the only person who is supposed to be stopping the fight is …
