Chris Eubank Sr.s crazy demands cost his son a £3 million fight against Gennady Golovkin, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.World middleweight No. 1 Golovkin will instead defend his WBC, IBF and WBA belts against Sheffields Kell Brook at the O2 Arena, London, on Sept. 10.Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) had agreed terms to face Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs), but the Brighton boxer stalled on signing the contract and Hearn instead offered the fight to Sheffields IBF world welterweight champion Brook (36-0, 25 KOs), who jumped at the opportunity.Hearn blames Eubank Sr., the former world champion, for his son not landing the fight against Kazakhstans California-based knockout specialist Golovkin, which included demands on which television commentator would work on the fight and how much tickets would cost.I believe Eubank Jr. genuinely wanted the fight and we worked solidly for three weeks trying to make the fight, Hearn told ESPN.We had several meetings and contracts went back in forth. We sent them a final contract on Tuesday and said you have 24 hours and they never came back to us. We just ran out of time, so I offered it to Kell.The deal that Kell Brook is on is the same as what Eubank Jr. was offered, its the same same pay-per-view deal as Anthony Joshua is getting and what Carl Froch got.It was so frustrating. It was the crazy demands that meant the fight could not happen for Eubank Jr. against Golovkin. They think its negotiations but its not a bluff when I say its 24 hours to sign the contract. They were given a deadline and they chose not to take the fight.They wanted full operational control of the promotion. They were even asking things from Sky Sports like We want these commentators, which is ridiculous.I feel for Eubank Jr. because I dont think he knows whats going on and he was going to earn three or five million pounds. They have to understand that its not playing a game.Chris Eubank Jr. hasnt made one decision, he doesnt breathe without his dads say so. All the negotiations were done with Chris Eubank Sr. and the lawyer.He added: They sent through their suggestion for ticket prices and I would have got publicly lynched if I had agreed to that.Fridays surprise announcement has given Brook a chance to pull off a huge shock when he challenges the world No. 1 middleweight, who is ranked No. 2 in ESPNs pound-for-pound list.GGG, as 34-year-old Golovkin is known, had been looking for an opponent since Mexican Saul Canelo Alvarez pulled out of talks for a world title unification fight in September.Golovkin has knocked out 32 of his 35 victims including Britons Matthew Macklin and Martin Murray, and will start as the overwhelming favourite against Brook, who will be stepping up two weight divisions just as his domestic rival Amir Khan did in May to fight Alvarez.It is the big fight Brook has been craving since winning his IBF belt nearly two years ago, having since made three low-key defences.Brook, 30, had been training in the Canary Islands expecting to fight American Jessie Vargas, the WBO champion, in a world welterweight title unification before Hearn made the offer to fight Golovkin.It will be the biggest pay day of his career and Hearn has hailed Golovkins UK visit as the biggest by an overseas boxer in years.Kell doesnt have to give up his IBF welterweight title and that was the defining decision if you like for him taking the fight because he has got nothing to lose and we believe he can beat Golovkin, Hearn said.If you are talking about fighters in their prime, when Mike Tyson and Kostya Tyszu came over they were past it, but Golovkin is very much in his prime.Michael Hermosillo Jersey . 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They can reach hordes of people, encouraging them to get involved in social change.Joe Louis and Jack Johnson and Jesse Owens struggled for legitimacy, Edwards said. Then you began this struggle for access. Which is what Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby and Kenny Washington and all those guys were involved in. In the 1960s, the struggle was for respect and dignity.Now the struggle is for power. And these men have power. So they have a different forum than we had in the late 1960s to be able to go on network television and make a statement concerning violence and the killing of black men, women and children in this country. ... Thats an exercise of power. They have the capability today that we only dreamed about in the 1960s when only one or two athletes even had endorsements.Anthony, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade gave an anti-violence speech at the ESPYS and expressed their support of the values behind the Black Lives Matter movement. University of Missouri football players threatened to boycott games last year in support of student groups protesting the schools racial environment. School President Timothy Wolfe eventually retired. Serena Williams spoke out against the violence at Wimbledon. Members of the WNBAs Indiana Fever, New York Liberty and Phoenix Mercury recently wore black warm up shirts in the wake of recent shootings by and against police officers, and were fined by the league.The league rescinded the fines after a public backlash.Anthonys meeting in Los Angeles coincides with the latest stop on the Olympic mens team exhibition schedule as the Americans prepare for the Rio Games.It is nearly economically impossible to ignore todays athletes as the power they wield reaches farther than their own bank accounts.James is literally worth millions of dollars to the Cleveland economy as the success of the Cavaliers motivates thousands of people to spend. Cavs attendance ranked No. 2 in the league in 2009-10 and the last two seasons, but dipped as low as No. 22 during James four years in Miami.Their influence goes beyond promoting merchandise and ticket sales.Edwards said sports have become a religion in this country and around the world, giving athletes more influence tthan in the past.dddddddddddd He believes as walking corporations they carry more weight than the doctor up the street or the lawyer around the corner or even the community organizer.Sports in modern societies really amount to secular religions, Edwards said. Athletes have a phenomenal megaphone. ... So that obligation to speak up, especially in regards to the African-American outcomes and interests, is critical.Social media allows athletes to directly communicate with millions of fans and followers with a few keystrokes and encourage action. Edwards explained ISIS has used it in a similar way to recruit self-radicalized people. The difference is in the message.Dr. Joseph Cooper, assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, said any major social policy -- civil rights movement, feminist movement, passage of Title IX -- began with multiple conversations. But there must be action behind the words.Both Edwards and Cooper said thats the next step in the process.Cooper called for sustained engagement from athletes on whatever level they are comfortable -- from continuing the conversation to meeting with groups like Black Lives Matter, the NAACP and 100 Black Men to identify specific issues and target ways to improve them. Cooper also discussed the need to have benchmarks in which progress can be measured.All these athletes say we care about the Black Lives Matter movement, in a year from now we want to see that youve actually been continuing in championing the support, Cooper said. Muhammed Alis legacy is a great example of how he didnt rest on his laurels in making one decision and saying OK, thats enough.In a concise manner, the steps forward are sustained engagement. What that looks like for each individual athlete and each community will be different. But it definitely involves tangible action, civic responsibility and engagement and accountability measures. The call for accountability has to be followed up with actual consequences if certain things arent done.Edwards pointed to the need for progress on both an individual and collective level. He said trust and respect needs to be built between individuals and police, and both sides need to acknowledge wrongdoing. There are criminals in the community that deserve to be arrested and there are rogue officers that deserve to be held accountable for excessive force.The bottom line of any step is the voting booth.If youre out there marching up and down the street with Black Lives Matter and then dont go to the polls to vote out the mayor of Ferguson, to vote out the sheriff of Milwaukee county or whatever, then ... youre marching into a cul-de-sac, Edwards said. When you march into a cul-de-sac and just come back out angry, youre not a member of a movement because its not going anywhere. Youre a member of a mob.And the difference in a representative democracy between a movement and a mob is whether you follow through with the actions necessary to make the changes that youve been trying to convince people are the correct direction to go. ' ' '