Chris Eubank Jr was the 4/6 favourite with the bookies to beat George Groves in the semi-finals of the super middleweight World Boxing Super Series.

However, Groves taught Eubank Jr a boxing lesson in Manchester as the WBA super middleweight champion won via unanimous decision and collected Eubank Jr's IBO super middleweight strap, too.

Eubank Jr had no answer for the long jab of Groves, who was naturally the bigger fighter who was rumoured to be as much as a stone heavier come fight time.

Next Gen is typically renowned for his high work-rate and volume punching, but Groves threw and landed more punches throughout the contest and that's with a suspected dislocated shoulder for the best part of the final two rounds.

Saint Groves moves on to the finals of the tournament and surely some huge fights in the near future.

As for Eubank Jr? He goes back to the drawing board, but he wasted no time calling out James DeGale's victor Caleb Truax for a shot at his IBF super middleweight title.

After suffering such a comprehensive loss, a title shot is not the usual reward by any stretch of the imagination.

However, it seems the advice his father, Chris Eubank Sr, gave him straight after the defeat may have influenced what he had to say.

Talking to ITV after the battle, Eubank Sr said: "I've already told him: look for a rematch - one. Two, you're going to keep to your boxing skills.

"You've got to keep to those boxing skills, learn those boxing skills - well, not learn - he knows his boxing skills, but he chose to use power. So, what now? We go on and we get stronger and we never quit and we keep running towards danger because that's what we do.

Like Tony Bellew said after the fight, walking into another title fight might not be what's best for Junior despite his wishes; he needs to get a good team around him and probably move back down to middleweight.

The 28-year-old is an undersized super-middleweight, but he came to this division looking for an easier route to a world title with Billy Joe Saunders - the only other man to ever beat him - and Gennady Golovkin locking up the middleweight division.

First things first, he needs a world-class coach to help him with strategy because he was painfully bereft of any real gameplan against Groves. It seems his father noticed as much, too.