Comments Thread For: Liam Smith: It Felt Good To Just Prove Chris Wrong; That Was The Most Satisfying Thing For Me

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By Jake Donovan - Perhaps Liam Smith will be more interested in taking a victory lap the second time around. The highest profile win of his career earlier this year carried a certain sense of satisfaction for the former WBO junior middleweight titlist. A fourth-round knockout of Chris Eubank Jr. was viewed as an upset at the time, as there were questions as to whether Smith could handle a naturally bigger opponent.
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[57Blues]

35yo vs 33yo yet they seem a lot older esp Smith........but there last fight seems like it just happened last month...

[Teetotaler69]

Tf is up with smith's face in the pic? He looks old af too

[Roberto Vasquez]

Smith hit Eubank with the elbow. Won't be that lucky this time round. Strange that no one cared about that elbow but now EVERYONE cares about a low blow. Hmm....

[1Eriugenus]

Tf is up with smith's face in the pic? He looks old af too

Europeans tend to look old than Americans, at least wealthy Americans, because we drink, smoke & don't go in for dental cosmetics. What's that got to do with the price of fish? Liam's a boxer, not a male model FFS. Man can fight, what else do you need? AND, he'll KO CEJ on Saturday & on Sunday he'll turn out for his local football team, put in 90 hard minutes & go for a beer afterwards. You have to admire a man like that. Well, I have to anyway.

[1Eriugenus]

Smith did catch CEJ with the elbow before the KO punch. Let's be honest, if you were to start invalidating wins because of infractions like that you, literally, wouldn't have a HoF at Castaneda. From Jack Johnson to Bud Crawford, every top boxer has pulled moves that were a bit dubious. As Ricky said 'it isn't a tickling contest' .

[PRINCEKOOL]

Smith did catch CEJ with the elbow before the KO punch. Let's be honest, if you were to start invalidating wins because of infractions like that you, literally, wouldn't have a HoF at Castaneda. From Jack Johnson to Bud Crawford, every top boxer has pulled moves that were a bit dubious. As Ricky said 'it isn't a tickling contest' .

Liam Smith achieved a legitimate win. Yes boxing is a boxing match, but it is also still a fight 'Things can happen, rough house tactics for me are apart of professional boxing'.

Chris Eubank Junior was for me suffering from the chronic effects of weight draining himself from the Benn fight 'And I have theorized that this is why his durability seemed to have decreased'.

Liam Smith in all of his fights against any fighter that was at a good level, Smith has always struggled 'He has never won a good level fight easily, were as Eubank Junior has'.

Before Smith scored his anomaly type knock-out, the fight was developing into another tough fight for him 'And believe Smith has his team would of been content to move on from this fight, because on the sly they know his first win may be as good as it gets vs Eubank Junior'.

Note: Smith was the more composed fighter in the first fight, but really? Smith is definitively skill for skill not a miles better boxer than Eubank Junior 'If Eubank Junior's durability is at the level were it should be, then this is a really tough potentially brutal challenge for Smith' etc.

[1Eriugenus]

'Liam Smith in all of his fights against any fighter that was at a good level, Smith has always struggled 'He has never won a good level fight easily, were as Eubank Junior has'.

I Dunno. To me, CEJ's best performances were beating Chudinov & Liam Williams & pushing BJS all the way. None of those were easy for CEJ. But, if you think I'm wrong I'm always happy to listen.

[PRINCEKOOL]

'Liam Smith in all of his fights against any fighter that was at a good level, Smith has always struggled 'He has never won a good level fight easily, were as Eubank Junior has'.

I Dunno. To me, CEJ's best performances were beating Chudinov & Liam Williams & pushing BJS all the way. None of those were easy for CEJ. But, if you think I'm wrong I'm always happy to listen.

Anthony Fowler was beating Smith before he fatigued 'Smith was busted up in that fight'.

Liam Williams had two fights with Smith and pushed him in both 'Smith never won easy vs Williams'.

The list goes on mate, Smith in 99.9% of is fights at a good level 'Very rarely wins easily'.

Smith's win vs Eubank Junior was pretty much the first time he won easily at a good level.

That is why I stated? On the sly him and his team would of been content with moving on from this fight 'Because they know Smith's first win vs Eubank Junior may well be as good as it gets'.

Eubank Junior has won in dominant fashion at a good level 'Weather this has been against the best domestic fighters, or high end European level fighters'.

Liam Williams, James Degale, Spike O'sullivan, Arthur Abraham, Avni Ylidirim 'These are all good wins at a good level for Eubank Junior, and he was not battered or beaten up in those fights.

The point I am making mate, is that Smith makes most fights really difficult for himself 'Smith's style is effective, it is solid but it is a tough style to fight with'.

In contrast to Eubank Junior? When Smith is fighting at a good level, win or lose he is most likely getting beat up in those fights.

Note: Smith is a solid fighter, but I think people have overrated his actual boxing skills in comparison to Eubank Junior 'Skill for skill they are not level's apart, there is no evidence of that'. If Eubank Junior's durability is at the level where he should be, then this fight will most likely be a tough challenge for Smith etc.

[1Eriugenus]

Prince Kool, OK, I see where you're coming from. Not sure I buy it. Smith certainly isn't Floyd or RJJ or SRL & he wouldn't claim he was.He is a solid, reliable fighter with a decent style that has served him well since he was a kid. CEJ's style is all over the place. One day he is a hard-working pressure fighter, then, madly, he decides he can drop his hands & dance around as though he was Kirlkand Laing. I agree with you that they aren't levels apart, they are probably around the same level skills-wise but, IMO, Smith will win because he will go into the fight knowing exactly what to do. CEJ, IMO, is confusing himself, caught between styles & struggling to adjust. Smith by late TKO or UD is my opinion.