Chris Eubank Jr. will have to wait a little longer for his chance at redemption.

BoxingScene.com has learned that Liam Smith suffered a minor back injury during training camp, which has forced event planners to postpone his rematch with Eubank. The second act was due to take place June 17 at AO Arena in Manchester, also the site of the first fight on January 21 where Smith won via fourth-round knockout.

The setback is expected to push back the Sky Sports Box Office event by two weeks, though Boxing Scene was not able to confirm July 1 as the set-in-stone rescheduled date. The same venue is booked on July 8.

ESPN’s Mike Coppinger was the first to report the news via Twitter on Monday.

The long-brewing all-UK rivalry featured a contentious fight week between Liverpool’s Smith (33-3-1, 20KOs) and Brighton’s Eubank (32-3, 23KOs).

It spilled over into the ring, where a spirited affair took a dramatic momentum shift when Smith floored the former title challenger in round four. A second knockdown ultimately produced the stoppage win for Smith, a former WBO junior middleweight titlist who has won seven of his last eight. The lone defeat came in a controversial decision in favor of Magomed Kurbanov in their May 2021 meeting in Russia.

Smith was bound to a rematch with Eubank, who exercised a rematch clause shortly after their meeting. The binding agreement left Smith unable to proceed with an ordered mandatory title challenge versus WBO middleweight titlist Janibek Alimkhanuly, though he was left in limbo as Eubank’s team flirted with the idea of revisiting plans for a showdown with fellow second-generation boxer Conor Benn.

BOXXER was eventually able to confirm hard plans for the rematch, which was formally announced on April 25.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox