promoter Eddie Hearn said earlier this month Boxing News that a “big name is yet to be added” to their November 30 show.
The card headlined by Sunny Edwards vs Gulal Yafai is now 10 in number.Th The fight against former WBA super middleweight champion Callum Smith has yet to be announced. Matchroom’s latest UK show was held at Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena, the second time Hearn and his team have staged an event there in 2024.
In January, Smith traveled to Canada and fought Artur Beterbeev in hopes of becoming a two-weight world champion. The Russian light heavyweight defended his three belts in clinical fashion, stopping ‘Mundo’ in the seventh round.
The 34-year-old has since taken a break from boxing and married partner Kim on June 1. Ironically, on that date boxing celebrated its first undisputed light heavyweight champion since June 1999 when Roy Jones Jr. accomplished the feat during a three-belt reign. Bitterbeef became the first man to do so in the four-belt era when he defeated Dmitri Biol on points after an exciting contest.
Three weeks after second career loss – first against Canelo Alvarez at 168lbs. BN asked Smith about his future And if he continues boxing.
“I’m not making a decision,” he said. “I would probably find it hard to go on knowing that I never accomplished what I set out to do.
“It was always about goals and achievements. If I can find goals that motivate me and get me into the gym, I’ll keep boxing as long as I need to.”
In the sanctioning body rankings, Smith is ranked fourth with the WBC and 10th with the WBO and IBF respectively. A potential domestic fight against Anthony Yarde has long been linked with hunger for another world title, and could be in the future for both men in 2025.
