Chris Eubank Jr aims to get to the same level as Anthony Joshua

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IN just a few hours Chris Eubank Jr will be stepping into the ring with George Groves to fight for the WBA super-middleweight title and a place in the final of the World Boxing Super Series. It is the biggest fight of his career and itโ€™s tantalising to consider how the normally unflappable Eubank is feeling now.

โ€œIโ€™ve been fighting my entire life. I was nervous in my first pro fight, walking to the ring my heart was pumping at a thousand beats per second. Now Iโ€™m in my element. This is my home now,โ€ Junior said. โ€œIโ€™m too hungry. Iโ€™m too committed. Iโ€™ve come too far now.โ€

Eubank has a simple ambition, even if it is one that will be hard to accomplish. He wants to get to the same level that Anthony Joshua currently enjoys.

โ€œHeavyweights they do have that pull, which is very hard to compete with. But Anthonyโ€™s doing an amazing job. Heโ€™s putting on great fights, heโ€™s doing what he needs to do. Us as British fighters weโ€™re looking at that and everyoneโ€™s trying to emulate it. We all want to get to the position where you can fill up a stadium of 80,000, 100,000 people. I believe winning this tournament would put me in that same pool, well itโ€™s not a pool because itโ€™s just one guy. Itโ€™d put me that same category. The potentialโ€™s there for sure,โ€ Eubank reflected.

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โ€œ[Froch-Groves] was one fight, it was a one-off and it was a controversial fight before, there was the beef and the back and forth and so that created a lot of interest. Whereas Anthony heโ€™s having these fights and heโ€™s not even saying anything before these fights. Heโ€™s shaking the guyโ€™s hand and wishing him the best of luck. Itโ€™s crazy. Iโ€™ve never seen anything like it. But the public, they love it. Itโ€™s great. Itโ€™s great for British boxing.

โ€œBoxing is at an all time high now. If there was ever a time for [Eubank seniorโ€™s era] to be replicated, this is it. This is the generation that can do it. The next generation.โ€

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