Former WBO junior middleweight world champion Liam Smith has given his take on the recent statements from Eddie Hearn, who promotes welterweight Conor Benn.
Former world champion Liam Smith believes Chris Eubank Jr. was scared of being hit when they collided back in January. Smith, who captured a world title at 154-pounds, was widely viewed as a big underdog when he stepped in the ring with Eubank.
Middleweights Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. have been hit with fines from the British Boxing Board of Control, over their conduct during a press conference for January fight.
Liam Smith dismissed the claims from Chris Eubank’s handlers that Smith’s inadvertent albeit illegal elbow buzzed Eubank before any of Smith’s punches put him down Saturday night in Manchester, England. Roy Jones Jr., Eubank’s trainer, first suggested in the immediate aftermath of Smith’s stunning TKO victory that Smith’s
In a recent interview, Kalle Sauerland, the chief handler of Chris Eubank Jr, said he could offer no alibis for Liam Smith’s shocking fourth-round stoppage of Eubank in their middleweight bout last Saturday night in front of a sell-out crowd at AO Arena in Manchester, England.
Promoter Ben Shalom would "love" to see Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. run it back at one of England’s biggest soccer stadiums. This past Saturday, Liverpool’s Smith earned perhaps the sweetest victory of his career, stopping Brighton’s Eubank in the fourth round of a middleweight bout at Manchester.
Joe McNally made sure to tell anyone who would listen that Liam Smith’s underrated punching power would be one of the foremost factors in his domestic showdown with Chris Eubank Jr.
Liam Smith never gave any thought to the betting odds considerably in favor of Chris Eubank Jr. The former WBO 154-pound titlist was equally dismissive of any claims that he couldn’t eventually break the second-generation middleweight. Smith did just that, as he dropped and stopped Eubank in the fourth-round of their middleweight battle last Saturday at AO Arena in Manchester, England. A barrage of punches, accentuated by a left
Every week in boxing can’t have a big fight. Any week can have a damn good one. Boxing fans got more than that last weekend with two thrilling main events. On Saturday, former Jr. middleweight titlist Liam Smith scored his fourth consecutive knockout, in the fourth round, for what may have been the biggest victory of his career. As someone who has won and lost a major belt, that may sound overstated but is it? A big domestic showdown with the son of one of the UK’s biggest stars in recent decades, Chris Eubank Jr., put butts in the seats and raised eyebrows around the world.
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr, who works as the head trainer of Chris Eubank Jr, says his fighter is in good spirits after suffering his first stoppage loss.