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Boxer's father cost him nearly $4M chance to be Gennady Golovkin's next opponent

“Dad, stop embarrassing me!” usually doesn’t cost $3.9 million.

That’s what British boxer Chris Eubank Jr. is dealing with now, after his father, the former boxing world champion Chris Sr., intervened on negotiations with middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) had agreed to terms with Eubank (23-1, 18 KOs) before Eubank’s father caused him to hesitate signing the contract, according to an ESPN report.

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Golovkin now will face another British boxer, welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on Sept.