James DeGale vs Chris Eubank Jr result: Junior knocks DeGale down twice en route to one-sided win
Relive all the action as James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr settled their longstanding rivalry at the 02 Arena
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Your support makes all the difference.Chris Eubank Jr has left James DeGale facing retirement after securing the finest victory of his career via a unanimous decision in their IBO super middleweight title match in London.
He had previously lost his two biggest fights, against Billy Joe Saunders and George Groves, but improved sufficiently to win an occasion DeGale said would force the loser to retire.
At 29 and with so high a profile there was little risk of that for Eubank Jr, but after his third defeat and a career in which he became the first British Olympic gold medallist to win a world title DeGale - the loser by scores of 114-112, 115-112 and 117-109 - has been left with few lucrative options to pursue.
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Round 6: Another similar round where the pace is slightly dropped, but Eubank remains the most dangerous and the more active fighter. George Groves, calling the fight from ringside, predicts Eubank will get the stoppage before the final bell.
Round 7: DeGale manages to find some movement and starts to circle Eubank and pick his punches better. Eubank can't quite seem to regain the fizz he started with and is in danger of becoming one-paced.
Round 7: But now DeGale's come unstuck. Eubank finds his chin and rushes in and lands another burst of shots to the chin. DeGale sticks his tongue out at the final bell, but that flurry will surely have racked up another round for Eubank.
DeGale has always been guilty of sitting on the ropes in fights before, he simply can't afford to do that against Eubank.
Round 8: Another left-hand gets through but this time DeGale manages to spin his way out of the corner.
Round 8: It's getting scrappier in the eighth as DeGale looks to clinch when Eubank comes inside.
Round 8: Eubank bursts into life, quite literally chasing DeGale around the ring almost at a sprint. DeGale had got through with a few left hands early on but again it's overshadowed by that late flurry. It's a messy fight, it's not being played out at elite level, but Eubank's raw aggression is clearly edging it at the moment.
Round 9: Eubank lands a big right hand at the end of the round! DeGale just can't seem to get inside and, ironically, it's the unrefined Eubank who is in fact outboxing the Olympic gold medallist.
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