Suddenly! Promoter compares Eubanks-Smith fight to Haye vs. Bellew

On January 21, Manchester (Great Britain) will host one of the top fights of the month. In a head-to-head fight in the middleweight limit, two local popular boxers will meet – ex-world champion Liam Smith (32-3-1, 19 KOs) and ex-challenger Chris Eubank Jr. (32-2, 23 KOs).

Bookmakers and fans consider Eubank to be the favorite, because for him it is a native weight, and Smith mainly performed in the lower division.

And here is the event promoter Ben Shalom (boxer) thinksthat in this battle everything is not at all so simple: “Remember another British confrontation. David Haye was a brash superstar fighter. And Tony Bellew is a modest scouser (a resident of Liverpool), who comes from the working class. He had to work very hard to reach the world level. It seemed that the favorite was obvious, but in the end, Bellew beat Haye twice, and it all looked like a trifling matter. Why did it happen? I think it’s all about style.”

Shalom goes too far, because unlike Eubank (who never had titles at all), Haye was the undisputed cruiserweight champion, took the heavyweight title and gave a competitive fight to hegemon heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko. The promoter nevertheless recalled that “there is still no end to the debate about whether Eubank is a world-class fighter. And, as for me, Smith has long proved his place among the best. But something else is important. And for one, and for another, the victory in this confrontation will be the most outstanding and significant in their careers. Even despite the fact that Smith was previously world champion. It is for this reason that I consider the upcoming fight to be just a monstrous event that definitely cannot be ignored.

In September, a very strange fight took place in Britain: Smith and Phantom Punch timed an African – video. And Eubank last entered the ring in February last year and recorded four knockdowns. Video of the best moments of the fight with Liam Williams.