Liam Smith: record, next fight and profile →
Liam Smith has broken his silence after suffering defeat last weekend. The Liverpool fighter was comprehensively beaten by Chris Eubank Jr. as the pair engaged in a lucrative rematch at Manchester’s AO Arena.
While boxing is in a bit of a lull between major fights, the game continued to roll over the weekend with two significant fights of note. At middleweight, a rematch between consensus top ten battlers produced a sequel very different from the original. In January, Liam Smith dropped Chris Eubank twice in round four to score a career best stoppage win. The dramatic scene
By Jake Donovan - There wasn’t one singularly contributing factor that produced a different outcome the second time around for Chris Eubank Jr. Several changes were made by the second-generation middleweight following a fourth-round stoppage to Liverpool’s Liam Smith earlier this year. The 33-year-old Brighton native joined forces with noted boxing coach Brian ‘Bomac’
Former world champion Liam Smith would love to get his own measure of revenge against Chris Eubank Jr. in a trilogy fight. In January, Smith stunned the Manchester crowd by knocking Eubank out in four rounds.
Former world champion Carl Froch believes Liam Smith - due to a huge weight cut - was not capable of performing in last Saturday's rematch with Chris Eubank Jr. in Manchester.
Honesty generally takes a backseat during fight week. Everybody is injury free, convinced of victory and bang on the weight. It is much safer to believe what you see rather than what you hear.
Chris Eubank Jr. insists his rematch with Liam Smith brought prizefighting a much-needed boost of honesty. Last Saturday night in Manchester, England, Eubank turned back the lone stoppage loss of his career with a dominant 10th-round technical knockout of Smith.
Former two division world champion David Haye believes there is no reason to make a trilogy fight between Chris Eubank Jr. and Liam Smith. In January, Smith secured a shocking upset when he knocked Eubank out in four rounds.
Chris Eubank Jr. never wavered from the belief that history would not repeat itself. The second-generation middleweight didn’t quite honor his pre-fight promise to not even smile after he would gain revenge on Liverpool’s Liam Smith but backed up every other word after one of the best showings of his career. Eubank
Liam Smith has blamed his loss to Chris Eubank Jr. on what he claims was the more than 40 pounds of weight he needed to lose leading up to their middleweight rematch.