Chris Eubank Jr still claims his goal is to face Canelo Alvarez, who is currently scheduled to face Edgar Belanga on September 14. Eubank Jr tells Sky Sports that he believes he and Canelo could fight in May 2025, while he is seemingly still haggling with Canelo’s team over his share of the revenue.

However, Eubank Jr sees that Canelo is not very deep, so he believes he will still be in a good negotiating position.

“A lot of people are not ecstatic with the fight he chose. Canelo can only fight a certain group of fighters right now, so I’m not worried that this fight in September will end in failure. Because who else can he fight? There are only a few guys.

Eubank Jr is also considering a potential confrontation with Terence Crawford, with whom he shares a coach – Brian McIntyre. Even though Eubank Jr states that it’s not a good thought that McIntyre would obviously go with Crawford in such a situation, and gives inside information, he is still confident that he will win because he doesn’t think Crawford has enough strength to beat him.

“We have a trainer who trains both of us and if a fight happens, he will fight a guy he came up with, so he will share the information. It’s not worth thinking about. But I’m very confident. I think it’s too diminutive.”

While Eubank Jr tells the public about these huge plans and ideas, it is worth noting that he has often mentioned many huge names that he would like to fight, but for one reason or another, these fights never materialized.

Eddie Hearn sat down this morning to talk softball with his crew at Matchroom headquartersand although he contributed very little substance, he did give us one piece of intriguing information. While it’s not finalized yet, Hearn says he’s “working strenuous” to finalize the Bright Edwards vs. Galal Yafai fight and hopes to announce the decision “soon.”

Edwards (21-1, 4 KO) bounced back from last year’s loss to Jesse Rodriguez by technical decision over Adrian Curiel in June, putting him in prime position to return to title contention and establish a up-to-date reign over the… Bama Era. He will be the top-rated challenger to Angel Ayala Lardizabala when the IBF updates its rankings, and will also be near the top for the winner of Kenshiro Teraji vs. Cristofer Rosales.

That said, it is very understandable that he will face Yafai (7-0, 5 KO) first. The gold medalist from Tokyo is already 31 years venerable and has over ten years of professional and amateur experience; there’s no reason to let this continue to marinate, especially since (as Hearn notes) they have some bad blood in them. It’s an effortless sell, with Britain’s most skillful professional taking on one of its most accomplished amateurs.

Whether it will be good to watch is a completely different question. This is intriguing, at least on a conceptual level.

Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya immediately reacted to Vergil Ortiz’s majority decision win over Serheii Bohachuk, and while he thinks it was a close fight, he still believes Ortiz deserved the win. Check out what he had to say below.

De La Hoya on the Bohachuk vs Ortiz fight

“I said it would be the fight of the year and it was the fight of the year. Come on, it was a war. It was a fierce fight. Vergil attacked all night long. Bohachuk obviously deserves all the credit in the world, but Vergil won.

“He was pushing for the fight…Vergil Ortiz was pushing all night, he was fighting all night against tough, tough Bohachuk…I felt like Vergil won.”

On if he expects Ortiz to go straight to the Crawford fight next

“We will talk about it. We’ve just discussed this with Your Excellency, and if that’s what Vergil wants, that’s what we’ll give him.

On whether there should be a rematch between Ortiz and Bohachuk

“Vergil is in the hospital, Bohachuk is in the hospital. Let’s respect that, and when they get better, we’ll talk about it again and make something happen.

“Listen, they’re both fine, thank God. Both of them are fine, they are injured – it’s literally like in the movie Rocky, Apollo Creed and Sylvester Stallone in the hospital, a strenuous fight. Let’s give them a rest and then we’ll reconvene.”