Comments Thread For: Groves Has Shoulder Surgery; WBSS Final Versus Smith Postponed

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George Groves announced Monday morning that he would undergo shoulder surgery.
The procedure caused the WBA/IBO super middleweight champion to postpone his World Boxing Super Series super middleweight final against Callum Smith until at least July.
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[yoshik]

Depending on the severity of the injury and level of surgery this could bode poorly and unfortunately for Groves. I mean look at Thurman, poor guys has had a year to recover and he isn't ready to fight a championship level fighter..

[Tatabanya]

Danny Williams knocking out Potter while fighting one-armed remains one of the highlights. Anyhow, too bad for Groves; shoulder injuries are not easy to deal with.

[Fabes88]

Think we all knew this would happen. Hopefully they approve it, would be shambolic otherwise unless another world champion steps in.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Winner of Uzcategui/dirrell vs Smith in June if WBSS don’t approve extension with winner fighting groves afterwards sounds good also

[evets]

On one of the IFL interviews last week Kalle said they could do 2 weeks only. Be interesting to see what they say.

[P4Pdunny]

be a shame if somebody else is drafted in to face smith

[jackblack008]

Shoulder surgery for boxers can take up to 18 months to regain including full rehabilitation. I am afraid we have seen the last of Groves.

Eubank was prophetic when he said "I will retire Groves". #SAD

[Eff Pandas]

July?!?! Dude is having shoulder surgery in damn near March (maybe March idk) & he'll do rehab + be good to go + do a training camp in 4mos???

That seems like a tight schedule best case. I'm a lil 50/50 on the WBSS being cool with this vs putting in a sub cuz who knows if Groves will even be good in July realllllllly?

I think calling Eubank Jr, Ramirez or Benavidez is probably the play as sh^tty as it'll be to not have the 1 seed, who earned his way, in the finals. I'm sure they'll be cool getting ~$4M to fight Callum Smith.

Ticket sales & PPV numbers will suffer + Groves is a Sauerland guy so he's got some edge there to I'm sure so I won't be surprised if the WBSS lets him, but wouldn't be surprised if they don't either.

[DuckAdonis]

Final without Groves ain't legit