Rocky Fielding: record, next fight and profile →
Rocky Fielding has two jobs this weekend –– and he’ll be hoping he can do the first before it’s time for him to start the second. The Liverpool super-middleweight, 29, has been out of the ring since April but is determined to make up for lost time this weekend.
Rocky Fielding has been handed a return date. The Liverpool super-middleweight has been out of the ring since April when he outpointed Christopher Rebrasse to win the vacant WBC International title.
ECHO Arena, Liverpool, England –- Super middleweight Callum Smith (19-0, 14 KOs) demolished European super middleweight champion Hadillah Mohoumadi (20-4-1, 15 KOs) the the first of round of their WBC world title eliminator. Smith is now looking at the winner of champion Badou Jack's defense against Lucian Bute later this month.
All eight fighters involved in title fights on tomorrow night's Eddie Hearn-promoted bill have made weight and are ready for action. The show takes place at Liverpool’s Echo Arena and features a slew of local fighters. Liverpool native Callum Smith (18-0, 13 KOs) headlines the show, he meets France’s Hadillah Mohoumadi (20-3-1, 15 early) for the EBU 168lbs title. Smith came in at 11st 13lbs 8oz; his opponent hit 11st 10lbs 7oz (weights C/O @Britboxingblog and Matchroom’s Anthony Leaver) so both fighters are good to go.
Jamie Cox insists he is the best super-middleweight in the country after a spectacular first defence of his European title in Dublin on Saturday night. The 29-year-old from Swindon (20-0 8KOs) needed just 68 seconds to stop Hungarian challenger Ferenc Albert to make it three successive first-round stoppages. The unbeaten southpaw dropped Albert with an explosive right hook which he got up from at the count of eight from referee Mickey Vann, but was then flattened moments later with another right hook, with the official this time stopping the count after just two.
Callum Smith landed the British Super-Middleweight title with a stunning first round KO win over Rocky Fielding at the Echo Arena in Liverpool tonight (November 7) live on Sky Sports.</p> <p>Smith floored Fielding three times in the opening session before referee Phil Edwards stopped the contest as Fielding beat the count but was on unsteady legs – shell-shocked from a barrage from the new British champion. </p>
It was billed as 50-50, it was billed as 60-40… in the end the result was emphatic as Callum Smith obliterated Rocky Fielding in one round to win the vacant British super middleweight title. In front of a 10,000 sold-out Echo Arena in both fighter’s home city of Liverpool, it looked positive for Fielding with his jab in the opening seconds rocking Smith’s head back.
Callum Smith v Rocky Fielding: an-all Liverpool affair, a battle of two unbeaten British super middleweights fighting for the Lonsdale belt, a step closer to a world title shot and exactly the kind of fight that boxing on this side of the pond needs right now. It is a fight that has sold-out Liverpool’s Echo Arena and has some of the sport’s best minds split down the middle. Smith’s world-class amateur background, a pro record with a better standard of opponent against Fielding; a fighter who has made huge strides in his development under Oliver Harrison and appears to be getting better with every fight. Not forgetting that both men carry sizeable punch power.
Rocky Fielding has laughed off claims made by British title rival Callum Smith and his trainer Joe Gallagher that he is 'mentally weak.' Fielding (21-0-KO12) takes on his Liverpool rival Smith (17-0-KO12) for the super-middleweight crown live on Sky Sports on Saturday night and the two camps - in particular Gallagher and Fielding's trainer Oliver Harrison - have been sparring verbally in the build-up. Fielding has taken a back seat in comparison but bristled at suggestions he will struggle to cope with the occasion.
Callum Smith insists he will prove he's better than Rocky Fielding in every department as they clash for the vacant British super-middleweight title in Liverpool on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. Victory for 'Mundo' would mean all four Smith brothers have become British champions - an astonishing feat that is unlikely to ever be repeated. Callum - the youngest of the four - has watched Paul claim the super-middleweight strap he fights for, Stephen pocket both featherweight and super-featherweight belts and Liam land the super-welterweight title, and now he has the chance to complete the most unique of sporting achievements.