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Eubank Jr: I want Saunders rematch - then it's Golovkin

Chris Eubank Jr's first goal is a rematch with Billy Joe Saunders © Getty Images

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Chris Eubank Jr tells Inside Boxing that he hopes victory in Saturday's fight with Dmitry Chudinov for the WBA interim middleweight title sets up a rematch with British rival Billy Joe Saunders - and eventually leads to his dream showdown with the formidable Gennady Golovkin…

I could fight for the full title against Gennady Golovkin after my next fight on Saturday. Will I do that? I don't know. Everything has to go through Chris Eubank Promotions and Frank Warren.

I'm still building and I've only had 19 fights. This next one will only be my second 12-round fight I've had.

But there are many fighters worth fighting in the middleweight division at the moment and once I take the WBA interim title we will see where we go after that. I will have options.

Golovkin is one of the best pound-for-pound, no doubt. What I've seen of him is that he's a solid fighter but he hasn't fought anyone great yet. He has made a name for himself because he's exciting to watch and he knocks people out.

A fight with Golovkin is a dream fight for me in the future as long as I go in there and do the business in my next fight at the O2 Arena.

Maybe there will be a fight between me and Martin Murray in the future too. He's proved himself to be one of the best in the world.

Looking back on my last fight, I felt that I let it become too neck and neck against Saunders in the early rounds. It was close and after the fifth round I decided to put it on him and I upped the gears. He couldn't handle it from round six and because of that I thought I did enough to win the fight. But they didn't give it to me so I have a loss on my record now and my number one goal is to avenge that loss.

As soon as I can get a rematch, I will be taking it, and that's what I hope this next fight can get me.

I learned a lot from that fight with Saunders, even though it was a loss. I have gained a huge fan base from that fight; they saw my heart, determination and will to win in that fight and saw that I bring excitement. It was me who was pressing and making the fight exciting, not him.

Correcting what I did in my last fight is not the right word; building is a more accurate description of what I have been doing in the gym since the Saunders fight.

I've sparred with Paul Smith in Manchester and I've sparred at Amir Khan's gym in Bolton. It's good because before I fought Saunders I really struggled to get any sort of sparring.

My dad said it was a great performance but I started too late. If I did what I did from the sixth round onward for the whole fight it would have been a different story. I don't think he would have lasted because he was holding on for dear life at the end.

What I take from it is that now there is a huge rivalry and everyone wants to see the rematch. If had knocked him out in round one that would have been the end of it, but now the saga continues.

Frank Warren has said as long as I come through in my next bout I will fight Saunders again in the summer. There have been a few changes in what he will be doing next. He's not fighting Andy Lee next and there was talk he would be fighting for the vacant IBF title. I don't know how all of that will affect our future fight yet but I'm confident it will happen sometime this year. People want to see it.

What I've seen is that Dmitry Chudinov is tough but is one dimensional and comes in trying to take the other guy's head off. He only fights one way, coming forward trying to take your head off. I'm going to put on a boxing show.

I think for once in a fight the roles are reversed and I'm coming in the good guy and he's coming in the bad guy.

This is now all about me and getting to where I should be - beating Chudinov will open doors for me and hopefully a rematch against Saunders in the summer.

Eubank's dream is to one day take on the unbeaten Gennady Golovkin © Getty Images

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