The time will surely come when Chris Eubank Jr can shed the appellation to establish his own identity at the higher levels of boxing, free of his father’s sometimes cloying influence, and only then will we see whether he is the champion fighter he claims to be. Nearly three years after avoiding the master boxer Gennady Golovkin at middleweight – on the advice of his father – “Junior”, as “Senior” still calls him, finds himself a world champion of sorts one division above at 12 stones for the IBO after shredding the remnants of James DeGale’s once-excellent skills at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday. He knocked the two-times world champion down twice but was fighting a pale imitation of the boxer who had won Olympic gold and lost only to the very best in a professional career stretched over nine years. Eubank, operating faithfully to the instructions of his new American trainer, Nate Vasquez, could have done little more, although it was an ugly spectacle. DeGale, whose quirky, disjointed style has frustrated so many opponents, was vulnerable for worryingly long stretches, unsteady on wobbling legs, and his only achievement was to finish upright under a final onslaught in…