GEORGE GROVES says Chris Eubank Jr will get torn apart when they fight because his rival is looking too far ahead.
The Londoner, 29, defends his WBA world super-middleweight crown against Eubank Jr in Manchester on Saturday.
And Groves remembers how he was KO’d by former champ Carl Froch in their second fight in May 2014 after failing to concentrate on the job in hand.
He said: “I think Junior is looking beyond our fight just like I’ve done in the past — I definitely looked beyond Froch and paid the price.
“I was always thinking of what was next after beating Froch, not because I thought winning was a foregone conclusion but I was confident I could do a job on him.
“Then I made the mistake of doing too much PR selling the fight in the build-up, which was very taxing and come fight night I obviously got it wrong.
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“Eubank is looking beyond our fight as he believes he is going to win simply because it is his destiny, his time.
“But it’s not his time, this is about who is better — and he is not.”
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Groves says Eubank, 28, will then face years of hard graft to get to the top.
It took Groves FOUR goes to win a world title as he lost to Froch twice and Badou Jack before beating Fedor Chudinov last year.
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He added: “Get knocked out and you have a massive fall from grace. There is a massive task to rebuild.
“I had to take that second defeat against Froch literally on the chin.
“Not only on the night when he caught me but again and again because I had to have ‘proper’ fights getting back to the top.
“The Eubanks have done well in commercially building Junior’s brand but they haven’t had the tests in terms of competitive fights.”
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