Irish champion JJ McDonagh gets shot at Chris Eubank Jr

“I’m a fighting man from a fighting family of generations of fighters. I am going to knock him out!”

Mullingar's JJ McDonagh will face Chris Eubank Jr in the biggest fight of his career on Friday week.

The fight, announced today, will see the Irish super-middleweight champion (16-4, 8 KOs) take on Eubank Jr (26-2, 20 KOs) on the undercard of George Groves vs Callum Smith in the Ali Trophy Super-Middleweight Final.