(எல்-ஆர்) – லியாம் ஸ்மித், promoter Frank Warren, Liam Williams
(picture courtesy of Queensbury Promotions)
EDMONTON, கனடா (நவம்பர் 6, 2017) – In its continuing efforts as the boxing network destination for Canadian boxing fans, Super Channel has announced that it has secured the exclusive rights to air the Liam “Beefy” ஸ்மித் எதிராக. Liam Williams மறுபோட்டியில், இந்த சனி (நவம்பர். 11), live from Metro Radio Arena in New Castle, ஐக்கிய ராஜ்யம்.
The replay of எதிராக ஸ்மித். Williams I from this past April will also air on Super Channel இந்த வெள்ளி(11 பி.எம். / 8 பி.எம். PT) மற்றும் சனிக்கிழமை (1:45 பி.எம். மற்றும் / 10:45 ஏ.எம். PT).
தி எதிராக ஸ்மித். வில்லியம்ஸ் இரண்டாம் அட்டை, presented by Frank Warren’s Queensbury Promotions andதொடங்கும் 3 பி.எம். மற்றும் / 12 பி.எம். PT, will be a 12-round World Boxing Organization (WBO) super welterweight title eliminator with the winner positioned to fight the winner of the WBO title fight between defending champion மிகுவல் Cotto மற்றும் சவால்விடுபவராக சதாம் அலி டிசம்பர். சமைத்த, எனினும், claims that he will retire after that fight. Williams is presently rated No. 2 WBO மூலம், Smith No. 4, அதே இல்லை என. 7 in The Ring magazine’s independent rankings.
Additional Smith vs. Williams II card fights airing சனிக்கிழமை on Super Channel will be announced later this week.
“With the World Boxing Super Series taking a break before the semi-final matches return in the new year, we are excited to be able to continue to deliver high-stakes, world-class boxing to Canadian fight fans with this highly acclaimed rematch between Smith and Williams,” கூறினார் Troy Wassill, Director of Programming, Domestic Distributors & Sports for Super Channel. “Given the controversy surrounding their initial match in April, tension will be high and both fighters will be looking to settle a score.”
In the last fight for both boxers, ஸ்மித் (25-1-1, 14 கோச்) won a controversial fight last April when Williams retired after the ninth round, despite leading on all three judges’ scorecards by identical scores of 86-85. Williams had suffered a double laceration on his right eyebrow that he claimed was the result of Smith’s flagrant headbutt in the third round. Smith believes he was robbed of the opportunity to knockout Williams.
The 29-year-old Smith captured the WBO Super Welterweight World Championship in 2015, stopping American Josh Thompson (17-1) in the seventh round. The gifted Brit made two successful title defenses against fellow countryman and previously undefeated “ஜிம்மி” Kilrain Kelly (16-0) மற்றும் Predrag Radosevic (30-1), stopping them in the seventh and second rounds, முறையே.
Smith lost his belt to star சவுல் “Canelo” ஆல்வெர்ஸ் a year ago, getting knocked out in the ninth round of their WBO title fight in Texas. Smith won a four-round decision against Marian Cazacu in a tune-up fight this past March, setting the stage for an interim WBO super welterweight title fight against Williams last April in Manchester, இங்கிலாந்து. Smith won the fight but was ineligible to capture the interim title because he failed to make the contracted weight.
“I don’t think you had to be a good fighter to beat me in the first six rounds of our first fight,” Smith said about his original fight with Williams. “I was slow, flat and sluggish. I can never be that bad again. What I did to try and make weight during fight week killed me. It was nothing to do with having a slow start by game plan. Liam had a good start and I couldn’t have been worse. உள்ளன 10 fighters in Britain that could have properly out-boxed me on that night.
“The fight was changing before round nine. He threw his head in numerous times because I didn’t get cut off it. Regardless, you go in the ring, you get wet. The minute you got cut, you knew your chips were down. You spewed it! You chose to let Gary (his head trainer) pull you out. You knew you’d had your moment and you were gone.
“I was up for this rematch and that is why we’re here now. As soon as I start better, Liam is going to be in more of a fight earlier on and he won’t get his own way. It is only to go one way and he is going to crumble earlier than he did last time. I am stronger than him and I have more heart than him.”
வில்லியம்ஸ், 25, has notable victories over Gabor Gorbics (22-4) for the vacant WBO European super middleweight title, மற்றும் Gary Corcoran (15-0) for the BBBBofC British crown. The Welshman also was the Commonwealth (பிரிட்டிஷ் பேரரசு) 154-பவுண்டு பிரிவு titlist.
“Our first meeting was a good fight,” Williams explained. “I felt like I started very well. I was out-boxing him and getting a lot of rounds in the bag. அவர் வலுவான மீது வரும், which we were always prepared for, (ஏனெனில்,) that is the kind of fighter Liam is. He comes with a very solid defense and he is very strong.
“Obviously it ended the way it did. It wasn’t fair. We didn’t give the fans a chance to see what the proper outcome should have been. I took a nasty cut to the eye. These things happen, it isn’t a tickling contest. These things happen in boxing and I’m glad to get a chance to do it again.
“I think he was down in the fight and he needed to do something. It was frustrating, and I do believe the head clash was intentional. We are both going to be better. I am going to be more prepared and it is going to be another cracking fight. I’m going to put this to bed.”
Super Channel has aired several major boxing events live in 2017 including Brook vs. ஸ்பென்ஸ் ஜூனியர், Pacquiao vs.Horn, Eubank, ஜூனியர். எதிராக. ஆபிரகாம், லோமசெங்கோ எதிராக. Marriaga, கிராபோர்டு எதிராக. Indongo and the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) quarterfinals.
To watch Smith vs. வில்லியம்ஸ், அதே வர இன்னும் அற்புதமான குத்துச்சண்டை போன்ற, கனடாவில் ரசிகர்கள் போராட சூப்பர் சேனல் மற்றும் அனைத்து என்று அது சலுகைகள் பதிவு அவர்களின் உள்ளூர் கேபிள் வழங்குநர் தொடர்பு கொள்ளலாம், பிரீமியம் தொடர் உட்பட, திரைப்படம் மற்றும் மிகவும், என குறைந்த க்கான $9.95 மாதத்திற்கு.
