EARLIER this month promoter Eddie Hearn advised Boxing Information that there was a “massive title nonetheless to be added” to his November 30 present.
The cardboard headlined by Sunny Edwards vs. Galal Yafai now has its 10th combat and options former WBA super-middleweight champion Callum Smith towards an opponent nonetheless to be introduced. Matchroom’s newest UK present takes place on the Resorts World Area in Birmingham, the second time Hearn and his staff have staged an occasion there in 2024.
In January Smith travelled to Canada and fought Artur Beterbiev hoping to change into a two-weight world champion. The Russian light-heavyweight defended his three belts in scientific vogue stopping ‘Mundo’ within the seventh spherical.
The 34-year-old has had a while away from boxing since then and on June 1 bought married to his associate Kim. Sarcastically, on that date boxing celebrated it’s first undisputed light-heavyweight champion since June 1999 when Roy Jones Jr completed the feat in the course of the three-belt period. Beterbiev grew to become the primary to do it within the four-belt period when he beat Dmitry Bivol on factors after a riveting contest.
Three weeks after his second profession loss – the primary coming towards Canelo Alvarez at 168lbs – BN requested Smith about his future and if he would proceed boxing.
“I’m not making any selections,” he stated. “I’ll in all probability discover it exhausting strolling away figuring out I by no means fairly fulfilled what I got down to do.
“It was all the time about targets and achievements. If I can discover targets that’ll encourage me and get me within the health club, I’ll keep it up boxing so long as wants be.”
Within the sanctioning physique rankings Smith is ranked fourth with the WBC and at 10 with the WBO and IBF, respectively. Regardless of his starvation for an additional world title a possible home combat towards Anthony Yarde has lengthy been linked to him and will but be sooner or later for each males in 2025.
