Australian IBO super-middleweight champion Renold Quinlan says Chris Eubank Jr has made a huge mistake in agreeing to face him in London next Saturday.
The 27-year-old from Kempsey, NSW, will make the first defence of the title he won with a second-round knock-out of former world champ Daniel Geale in Tasmania last October against the highly rated Englishman.
The two fighters came face to face at YouTube's UK headquarters on Friday in a bizarre press conference dominated largely by the eccentric Chris Eubank Senior, who now guides his eldest son's career.
The conference, streamed live on YouTube, saw Eubank Sr, take centre stage for 15 minutes, in between being sledged by Quinlan's grandfather Darryl Wright who was sat in the audience.
Wright, who is the CEO of an Aboriginal charity in Sydney, at one stage threatened to throw a boomerang at the former super-middleweight world champ, who claims there's no fighter good enough to cope with his son's speed and power.
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Eubank (23-1), turned down a chance to fight middleweight king Gennady Golovkin to take on Quinlan in a move that was heavily criticised by the UK boxing media.
But Quinlan, who has just 12 professional fights to his credit and boasts an 11-1 record, believes his name will be known around the world after Saturday and it'll be him not Eubank looking to fight the likes of Andre Ward, who'll be ringside next week, or Golovkin
"It's going to be a tough fight, but I am tough fighter," Quinlan told AAP.
"I've knocked down Geale in two rounds, Golovkin and Miguel Cotto couldn't do that.
"Eubank is a good fighter, but he hasn't been in with someone as good or well credentialed as Geale.
"My belt will be coming back home with me next Sunday."
Eubank's one defeat came against durable fellow Englishman Billy Joe Saunders just over two years ago.
In that fight he was out-jabbed in the early rounds and and lost on a split decision with a late flurry of punches coming too late to save him.
Quinlan's trainer Ian Stapleton believes his charge has nothing to fear against the confident Englishman.
"I saw Renold 10 years ago when he came into my gym in Nambucca Heads," Stapleton told AAP.
"His jab is as good as any I've ever seen. I remember he put one of my best senior fighters on the canvas and there was this hush around the gym - it was a thing of beauty.
"It's what accounted for Geale, it is vicious. I doubt Eubank will have faced anyone with quicker right hand than Reonald."
