Liam Smith: record, next fight and profile →
The rematch between bitter middleweight rivals Liam ‘Beefy’ Smith and Chris Eubank Jr has a new date, with the two now set to collide in at the AO Arena, Manchester on Saturday, September 2nd.
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Chris Eubank Jr. is confident that plans are back in play for a Liam Smith rematch. The other side of that equation doesn’t quite share the same viewpoint. An early morning tweet from Eubank suggested that he is set to run it back with Smith on September 2 at The O2 in London. The bout would headline a Sky Sports Pay-Per-View event.
According to Boxxer head Ben Shalom, who promotes former junior middleweight champion Liam Smith, a new rematch date has been provided to Chris Eubank Jr.
Promoter Ben Shalom of Boxxer still feels confident that a rematch will come off between middleweights Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. According to the Shalom, the second fight would land in late August or early September.
Chris Eubank Jr. desperately wants to correct the public’s perception of himself. The veteran middleweight from Brighton, England, took a reputational hit earlier this year when he suffered a fourth-round stoppage loss to Liam Smith at AO Arena in Manchester.
Conor Benn continues to bounce off matchmaking ideas on the public. The brash and embattled British welterweight contender once again challenged rival Chris Eubank Jr. to a fight in a recent Instagram story. The two were originally supposed to fight each other in a high-profile fight in October but it was cancelled amid Benn’s scandal concerning performance-enhancing drugs; Benn tested positive twice for clomifene last year.
Eddie Hearn hasn’t given up hope trying to make the accursed fight between his welterweight charge Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. Earlier this week it was announced that Eubank’s rematch with Liam Smith had been postponed for a second time. The two were set to fight in a middleweight bout in Manchester on June 17, but Smith suffered a back injury, leading the organizers to reschedule the fight for July 1. But with a recent flare-up to Smith’s injury, that date is no longer in play. A new date was not announced.
Liam Smith knows a thing or two about playing to one’s strengths. As for Chris Eubank Jr. that might be a different story. In a recent interview, Liverpool’s Smith talked about how he believes Eubank is doing himself a disservice by trying to copy the style of his mentor and trainer Roy Jones Jr.
Savannah Marshall (12-1, 10 KO’s) is on track to land a record-setting 1-2 this summer as she follows October’s sell-out of The O2 London - the UK’s largest arena - by headlining a sold-out show at the AO Arena Manchester on Saturday, July 1st.