Liam Smith: record, next fight and profile →
Billy Joe Saunders is understood to be ready to begin light training over the next few weeks as he eyes a ring return. The former WBO world champion at middleweight and super-middleweight has been out of the sport since Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez handed him his first career defeat.
Promoter Ben Shalom of Boxxer is already making plans for the middleweight rematch between Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. Last month, Liam pulled off a big shocker when he dropped Eubank Jr. twice in the fourth round for a knockout victory.
Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. will be looking to secure a measure of revenge in the coming months. Eubank has exercised his contractual option for an immediate rematch with former world champion Liam Smith.
The mere thought of Liam Smith pulling off the upset made Chris Eubank Jr. incredulous. Although he was filled with hubris, Eubank constantly claimed that his normally unmatched work ethic was unnecessary this time around.
Eddie Hearn thinks there are more alluring fights for Chris Eubank Jr. on the horizon than a rematch with Liam Smith, and it does not necessarily involve his troubled charge Conor Benn.
Liam Smith still feels he can comfortably get down to 154 pounds and perform effectively within that division. The former WBO junior middleweight titleholder understands, though, that Jermell Charlo is recovering from a fractured left hand and must make multiple mandatory defenses of his belts once the fully unified 154-pound champ comes back. Smith admitted, too, that he felt “great” while fighting at the middleweight limit of 160 pounds.
Liam Smith dismissed the claims from Chris Eubank’s handlers that Smith’s inadvertent albeit illegal elbow buzzed Eubank before any of Smith’s punches put him down Saturday night in Manchester, England. Roy Jones Jr., Eubank’s trainer, first suggested in the immediate aftermath of Smith’s stunning TKO victory that Smith’s
In a recent interview, Kalle Sauerland, the chief handler of Chris Eubank Jr, said he could offer no alibis for Liam Smith’s shocking fourth-round stoppage of Eubank in their middleweight bout last Saturday night in front of a sell-out crowd at AO Arena in Manchester, England.
Promoter Ben Shalom would "love" to see Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. run it back at one of England’s biggest soccer stadiums. This past Saturday, Liverpool’s Smith earned perhaps the sweetest victory of his career, stopping Brighton’s Eubank in the fourth round of a middleweight bout at Manchester.
Joe McNally made sure to tell anyone who would listen that Liam Smith’s underrated punching power would be one of the foremost factors in his domestic showdown with Chris Eubank Jr.