James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr are drinking in the last chance saloon when they clash on Saturday and that should be good news for the fans.

The loser can say goodbye to big nights like this and the pay cheques that go with them, while both men have questions to answer and that all makes for an intriguing domestic battle.

There is very little to choose between them at the prices, with Eubank a best of 10/11 versus the 13/10 about DeGale, but it would have been a very different picture had they met two or three years ago.

DeGale, the 2008 Olympic gold medallist, proved himself to be a world-class operator in the paid ranks as well as the amateur game when capturing the IBF super middleweight title with a victory over Andre Dirrell, before staying on the road to retain his belt against former champion Lucian Bute, Regelio Medina and Badou Jack.

However, the Harlsden man hasn't looked the same since fighting out a thrilling draw with the latter in January 2017 and the shoulder surgery that followed.

He lost his belt to Caleb Truax in an upset of the year contender in December of that year and while he avenged that points loss four months later, the 33-year-old only scraped by on the cards in another bloody battle. We learnt nothing from his three-round blowout of the over-matched Fidel Monterrosa Munoz in September and plenty are expecting the decline to continue at the O2 Arena in London this weekend.