Liam Smith: record, next fight and profile →
Chris Eubank Jr. understands Liam Smith will go into their rematch with certain advantages—one of which is that Smith knows he can hurt him.
Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. was at one point considering the scenario of facing Conor Benn - with a very large offer on the table - but claims he couldn't bring himself to go forward with that fight.
Liam Smith is very motivated to become a two-weight world champion. Smith, a former WBO world champion at 154-pounds, moved up to middleweight earlier this year and pulled of a stunning knockout of Chris Eubank Jr. in a four round upset.
BOXXER announced updates to the event headlined by Liam Smith (33-3-1, 20 KO’s) and Chris Eubank Jr (32-3, 23 KO’s), with a new addition to the card confirmed plus a new date for the event at the AO Arena Manchester.
Few, if any, were expecting Liam Smith to walk through Chris Eubank Jr. Originally, the two locked horns on January 21st, at the Manchester Arena. Eubank, before confidently strolling his way to the ring, believed that he had bigger fish to fry.
Chris Eubank Jr. will have to wait a little longer for his chance at redemption. BoxingScene.com has learned that Liam Smith suffered a minor back injury during training camp, which has forced event planners to postpone his rematch with Eubank. The second act was due to take place June 17 at AO Arena in Manchester, also the site of the first fight on January 21 where Smith won via fourth-round knockout.
Liam Smith is secure in his status as a prizefighter. The 34-year-old, rugged bruiser from Liverpool, England, infused new life into his career earlier this year with a fourth-round upset of countryman Chris Eubank Jr. in their middleweight bout that took place at AO Arena in Manchester.
Former WBO junior middleweight world champion Liam Smith has given his take on the recent statements from Eddie Hearn, who promotes welterweight Conor Benn.
In the end, Chris Eubank Jr. could not get himself to reschedule a fight with Conor Benn. The veteran British middleweight instead is moving forward with a contractually obligated rematch with Liam Smith, who, in one of the year's biggest upsets, beat him by fourth-round stoppage in January at AO Arena in Manchester.
Liam Smith didn’t hold back in a recent war of words with Conor Benn, bragging that he deprived the embattled 26-year-old welterweight of his “biggest fight.”