By Shaun Brown

Chris Eubank Jr may have been celebrating recently with his best career win to date, over Arthur Abraham, but the British super middleweight suffered a defeat outside the ring earlier this week.

Boxing Scene can reveal that at the recent annual British Boxing Board of Control AGM the IBO belt holder was ordered to pay significant costs and damages worth a six-figure sum to promoter Frank Warren.

The case relates to Eubank Jr withdrawing from a fight against Tommy Langford last year. At that time Eubank Jr was British middleweight champion and Langford his mandatory challenger.

Eubank was set to make the second defence of his title in October 2016, in Cardiff, but pulled out with a “severe” elbow injury. The polarising character was berated on social media for the cancellation of the fight with Langford calling him a “time waster”.

Warren had won the purse bid to stage the contest and had documentation to prove that Eubank Jr had signed his part of the deal.

Speaking to IFL TV earlier this year Warren said: “We announced the fight, we put tickets on sale and we paid for the venue. And that’s all now subject to us as a claimant, a legal claim for damages – I am very very confident we will win. I don’t know where they will go with that.”

Eubank Jr has now left the middleweight division behind winning the IBO super middleweight belt, and after his win over Abraham on ITV Box Office can now look forward to a World Boxing Super Series quarter final against unbeaten Turk Avni Yildirim.

Langford will likely return this year after suffering his first professional loss to Avtandil Khurtsidze for the interim WBO world middleweight title back in April.

Warren’s next promotion sees the full WBO world middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders defend his belt for the second time against American Willie Monroe Jr.