By Jeff Powell For Mailonline
Published: 23:30 GMT, 13 February 2019 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 13 February 2019
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'Ignorant,' said James DeGale of Chris Eubank, 10 days before their grudge fight.
'Can't box,' he followed up with, adding insult to verbal injury.
'Hasn't beaten any top fighter,' said the first British Olympic champion to win a world title of the younger man threatening to terminate his career in the O2.
James DeGale is upping the ante ahead of his fight with Chris Eubank Jnr this month
DeGale takes on Eubank Jnr at the 02 Arena in London in 10 days on February 23
'Delusional,' he summed up Son of Eubank.
Chunky was talking as fast as he was feinting the punches through the cold morning air with which he intends to teach Junior a boxing lesson.
Eubank ignorant?
'Too ignorant to listen to his new trainer and learn,' said DeGale of Eubank finally hiring a full-time head coach, Mayweather protege Nate Vasquez.
Can't box?
'Not with the likes of me,' is the two-time world super-middleweight champion's judgement. 'Just doesn't have the skills.
'Give him credit for having the heart, the guts and the strength conditioning to be able to mix with the best. But he doesn't have the tools to beat us.
'With his courage he won't go away. He'll stick in there. But he can't beat me.' That is why DeGale has 'rediscovered my love of training and boxing and am back to my prime condition.'
DeGale claims that Eubank Jnr hasn't beaten any top fighter ahead of their bout
Also why he is shifting away from his initial prediction, at 33, that this could
