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Billam-Smith: McCarthy knows Iâm not easy work, I can get him out of there
Billam-Smith faces McCarthy in Fight Camp season two this summer
Cruiserweights Chris Billam-Smith and Tommy McCarthy clash for the British, Commonwealth and European titles in Fight Camp this summer Photo Credit: Dave Thompson/Matchroom Boxing
Chris Billam-Smith says Tommy McCarthy knows he is in for a tough fight and believes he can secure a stoppage victory when the pair clash in Fight Camp this summer.
Promoter Eddie Hearn announced the fight on Saturday after McCarthy successfully defended his European Cruiserweight title with a sixth round knockout over Alexandru Jur to set up a meeting with Commonwealth Cruiserweight champion, Billam-Smith in the second edition of Fight Camp from the gardens of Matchroom HQ, on a date to be confirmed.
Maybe Ryan Garcia didn’t answer
every question with today’s knockout win over Luke Campbell in Dallas, but it’s hard to say he didn’t answer a fair amount of them, and at the very least, it’s probably time to stop writing him off as an “Instagram boxer” or some sort of total fraud.
Garcia (21-0, 18 KO) came off the canvas in the second round to roar back and end the night in the seventh, finishing Campbell (20-4, 16 KO) with a wicked liver shot that put Campbell down for the count. Related
Boxing Twitter was highly engaged with this one on both sides of the pond. The Brits, of course, were rooting hard for the 33-year-old Campbell to win, and so were many Americans, to be fair, as the 22-year-old Garcia is a star bigger than his record coming into this fight, and maybe comes out a star bigger than his record still, which breeds some contempt and whatnot, of course.