Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Smith 2 LIVE: Boxing fight updates and results tonight

The Independent additionally interviewed Chris Eubank Jr forward of tonight’s rematch…

“I wouldn’t say I’m a masochist, no.” It was a reassuring begin from Chris Eubank Jr, as he mirrored on his defeat by Liam Smith – the primary stoppage lack of his profession, and an expertise he says he loved.

“Imagine being in a sport your entire life, thinking you’ve experienced every single thing there is, then something new happens at 33 years old,” the Briton defined to The Independent. (*2*)

The Independent spoke to Liam Smith again in July. Here’s simply a few of what he needed to say:

“A lot people used to think Chris was getting under my skin. I don’t lose sleep over Chris, he doesn’t change my day. Me and Chris’s personalities… Somebody with Chris’s persona is just someone I wouldn’t get on with in any form of life.

“I just don’t like them type of divas, who think everything’s got to revolve around them. In the build-up to the last fight, we were waiting on him a lot with promotion stuff, head-to-heads. It was on Sky Sports Box Office and the people trying to produce the advert were asking us, ‘Can you meet in the middle of the ring and touch gloves with two hands?’ He was like: ‘No, I don’t touch gloves with two hands.’

“He was just being a nuisance, petty, spoilt, a diva. I just thought: ‘It’s nothing to me, you’re not doing my head in, but these people are trying to do a promotion. You know what you signed up for, just do it.’ He was just a nightmare – for other people really; I didn’t give a s*** about it.”

It was maybe the one manner the fight and the week may end; there was a capability crowd of slightly below 20,000 in Manchester and a hoop full of screaming individuals. Tonight they do all of it once more and this time, it’s severe. Manchester is as soon as once more the venue.

Eubank Jr was dropped twice within the fourth however was up on unsteady legs, insisting he may proceed, when it was referred to as off after 69 unforgettable seconds. Eubank Jr was truly steered again to his personal nook by Smith’s coach, Joe McNally. It was an act of compassion surrounded by an evening of hate and violence.

The fight was stopped on the proper time.

Full preview from Steve Bunce:

Florian Marku wastes no time, stopping Dylan Moran within the first spherical!

Full card (topic to alter; consists of undercard results thus far)

Liam Smith vs Chris Eubank Jr (middleweight)

Mark Heffron (C) vs Jack Cullen (British super-middleweight title)

Adam Azim vs Aram Faniian (super-lightweight)

Mikaela Mayer vs Silvia Bortot (girls’s super-lightweight)

Frazer Clarke vs David Allen (heavyweight)

Florian Marku def. Dylan Moran by way of TKO

Lauren Price def. Lolita Muzeya by way of physician stoppage

Frankie Stringer def. Engel Gomez by way of resolution

Ring walks for the principle occasion tonight are anticipated at roughly 10pm BST.

That is topic to alter after all, relying on how lengthy the undercard runs – extra on these fights in a second.

Here’s all you might want to learn about find out how to watch tonight’s occasion:

Lauren Price stays unbeaten with a win over Lolita Muzeya!

Price dropped Muzeya as soon as, and the latter suffered a reduce over her left eye as a consequence of a conflict of heads in Round 5. The physician then referred to as off the bout, with Price successful a technical resolution.

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