Harlem Eubank targets Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney fights ahead of boxing return

The 31-year-old hasn't fought since dismantling Timo Schwarzkopf past year, but is hopeless to marque up for mislaid clip up of his instrumentality to the ring

Harlem Eubank appears to beryllium afloat of assurance up of his instrumentality to the ring, with the British boxing prima targeting blockbuster fights with Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney.

The 31-year-old is scheduled to marque his welterweight debut connected Friday nighttime against Nurali Erdogan astatine the Walker Activity Dome successful Newcastle. Eubank has been successful sensational signifier arsenic of late, stopping his past 2 opponents. That said, it's been a twelvemonth since the boxing faithful past saw him successful the squared-circle.

With Eubank hopeless to marque up for mislaid time, the British sensation is anxious to enactment connected a immense show connected location soil. His upcoming opponent, Erdogan, comes into the clash disconnected the backmost of a divided determination decision against Faizan Anwar successful May. Erdogan, a erstwhile French champion, surely posses a existent menace to the 31-year-old, but Eubank is assured helium tin get the occupation done.

"I’ve been firing connected each cylinders successful the gym and I’m feeling good," Eubank told Mirror Fighting. "I’m feeling crisp and I’m conscionable acceptable to spell successful determination present and enactment connected a connection performance.” Regarding Erdogan, the Brit said: "He’s a coagulated operator. He’s got a coagulated record, he’s a erstwhile French champion and a beardown guy. Never been stopped. I expect him to travel and bring everything he’s got and springiness it 110 per cent and yea it’s a caller situation for me, coming up to welterweight. I’m looking guardant to a coagulated trial and I’m prepared to spell successful determination and marque a statement."

With a triumph this week, Eubank is hoping to enactment progressive arsenic helium targets a "huge" 2025. Adam Azim's sanction has cropped up respective times implicit the past twelvemonth oregon truthful and the Brit is surely funny successful settling the people with his rival. "Of course, we tried to marque that fight. I’ve done a grooming campy 3 times for it. It’d beryllium wasted if it doesn’t hap down the line," helium added.

It's just to accidental that the 31-year-old has aspirations of competing for a world rubric soon and helium afloat believes that helium tin spell toe-to-toe with the apical stars of the sport, including Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney. "For now, I’m focused connected myself and large fights crossed welterweight, oregon 147, oregon 140," helium continued. "We’re going to beryllium pushing onto those satellite rubric dreams and it’s a precise breathtaking part betwixt 140 and 147. There’s large names successful America successful Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney. The part is connected fire. I’m acceptable to premix it with each of them.”

There are nary plans to hold astir arsenic Eubank insists he's acceptable for the career-changing bouts aft his clash with Erdogan. “I deliberation aft this one, I’m bully to go. I’m ripe and acceptable and aft this 1 here, I’m acceptable for a immense twelvemonth adjacent year. 2025, we’re acceptable for each of them."

As a youngster, the Brit played for Brighton, but yet swapped the studs for the gloves. A immense instrumentality of the Premier League giants, Eubank hopes to 1 time header a blockbuster paper astatine the Amex successful beforehand of his location fans successful what volition beryllium a 'fairytale' infinitesimal for him. “The Amex is simply a imagination venue for me. Obviously the past of playing for the club, it’ll instrumentality it backmost afloat ellipse erstwhile I tin execute successful beforehand of my location assemblage astatine the stadium that I started retired playing for. It’s a beauteous communicative and I judge it volition happen," helium said.

"The combat against Azim, I judge it’d beryllium a ascendant connection show from maine and whenever it happens, I deliberation it’d play retired the aforesaid way," helium added. "Like I said, there’s immense fights successful the division, and we tin bring 1 of them backmost to the Amex."

Watch Harlem Eubank's instrumentality to the ring, connected Friday, November 22 unrecorded and escaped connected Channel 5 astatine 10:30pm