Anybody watch that Liam "Beefy" Smith fight last night?

**R-C** · 03-19-2017, 04:27 PM

Good job by Liam

**Motorcity Cobra** · 03-19-2017, 04:29 PM

Originally posted by R-C

Good job by Liam

They even put it on his boxrec

http://boxrec.com/boxer/466535

**Lester Tutor** · 03-19-2017, 04:34 PM

Spanish people really do love pork. Beefy vs Porky Cazacu

**Hype job** · 03-19-2017, 04:38 PM

Canelo beat this beast what chance does GGG have?

**Motorcity Cobra** · 03-19-2017, 07:24 PM

So I'm reading that this fight allows Smith to fight for the WBO belt because he isn't coming off a loss. Some rule they have that a fighter can't fight for the belt coming off a loss?

**Chrismart** · 03-21-2017, 10:50 PM

Read this earlier on the BoxingNews website. Thought i'd add it to the thread :ANYWORD:

Why Liam Smith had a �secret� fight in Barcelona at the weekend

Liam Smith boxed a journeyman in Spain just weeks before his fight with Liam Williams

LIAM SMITH caused a stir online this weekend when it emerged he had taken part in a four-round fight in Barcelona just weeks before his crunch clash with Liam Williams.

Smith and Williams meet in a 50-50 domestic cracker in Manchester on April 8, but �Beefy� outpointed Romanian journeyman Marian Cazacu at Club Entrena in Barcelona on Saturday night in a �secret� fight that few had prior warning about.

Speculation has been rife over Smith�s motives for risking his highly-anticipated meeting with Williams but his trainer, Joe Gallagher, insists it was a necessary move.

�Liam Smith only had 11 rounds of boxing last year [he was stopped in nine by Canelo Alvarez after stopping Predrag Radosevic in two earlier in the year]. Liam Williams had 22, 23 rounds of boxing last year. Liam Williams is coming into this fight with a bit of momentum from championship fights, he�ll have his tail up,� he told Boxing News.

�Before the Canelo fight, Smith did no sparrinG [due to a cut] so he�s been out a long time. We didn�t want to go into this fight with just sparring so it was just a dress rehearsal, he was focused, he had his weight down, he did four rounds against a kid bigger than him who was just durable. It gave Liam the feel again, some momentum, it�s just shaking the ring rust off. It was just a safe fight to get going again, to get rounds.

�You can have sparring but you can�t buy real-time fight action, with small gloves on. It was a risk, a calculated risk. It was a good four rounds, he came out and did a session on the pads.�

The win also makes Smith eligibile to box for a vacant WBO title, per the organisation�s rules. A former holder of their world super-welterweight title, he is still in their top 10, as is Williams.

Reports have suggested that is the reason Smith boxed in Barcelona, however nothing has yet been confirmed.

�I heard about the title but that wasn�t in our agenda,� Gallagher continued.

�It was just about getting rid of ring rust. It possibly could [help with getting the title shot]. Liam Smith�s not the first to do it, other big names have done it, look at who [Marco Antonio] Barrera fought before he fought [Amir] Khan.�

**.!WAR MIKEY!.** · 03-21-2017, 10:54 PM

Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra

So I'm reading that this fight allows Smith to fight for the WBO belt because he isn't coming off a loss. Some rule they have that a fighter can't fight for the belt coming off a loss?

politics lol.

**iamboxing** · 03-21-2017, 11:05 PM

I didn't even know he was fighting and I'm in Liverpool! Not enough advertisments.

**TheCell8** · 03-21-2017, 11:10 PM

Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra

So I'm reading that this fight allows Smith to fight for the WBO belt because he isn't coming off a loss. Some rule they have that a fighter can't fight for the belt coming off a loss?

Loma fought for a belt coming off a loss.

Anybody watch that Liam "Beefy" Smith fight last night?