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Chris Eubank Jr refused to face off with Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan at Thursday's press conference in London.

The WBA interim world middleweight champion takes on Ireland's O'Sullivan (22-1-KO15) on December 12 at the O2 Arena as main support to Anthony Joshua's British title clash with Dillian Whyte.

But as a lengthy social media war gets closer to turning physical live on Sky Sports, Eubank Jr (20-1-KO15) was in no mood to go head-to-head with O'Sullivan - citing his behaviour during face-offs in the past as his reason and telling the visitor: "You are a fake as you won't say stuff to my face. You are a keyboard warrior, Twitter terrorist."

Eubank Jr, 26, then told Sky Sports: "In his previous head-to-head, he pretty much open-mouth kissed his opponent, which is terrible. It's unacceptable and has no place in boxing to do something like that to an opponent.

"I told him he'd lost the privilege of facing off with me today.

"What happens is complete domination. I'm going to be too much for him. He's not going to have any answers. He's going to fade and then I'm going to break him."

"It's more that he doesn't like me. He's been stalking and harassing me on Twitter for about three years straight.

"He finally got his chance today to come face-to-face, have a real sit down and talk and he didn't really have much to say for himself, which is disappointing but at the end of day the talking will be done in the ring and I believe I'll be the better man on the night.