Callum Smith
Callum John Smith is a British professional boxer. He has held the WBA and Ring magazine super-middleweight titles since 2018, and won the World Boxing Super Series super- middleweight tournament in the same year. He is ranked as the world’s best active super-Middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and ESPN, and second by BoxRec.
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Callum John Smith is a British professional boxer. He has held the WBA and Ring magazine super-middleweight titles since 2018, and won the World Boxing Super Series super- middleweight tournament in the same year. As of May 2020, he is ranked as the world’s best active super-Middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and ESPN, and second by BoxRec. He is the youngest of the Smith brothers—Paul, Stephen, and Liam—all of whom are professional boxers. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Smith up kept family tradition by winning a silver medal in the welterweight division, following brothers Paul, who also won silver at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and Stephen who claimed a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In October 2012 Smith followed his brothers into the professional ranks, under the promotional banner of Matchroom Sport, and like his siblings, would be coached by Manchester based trainer Joe Gallagher. In February 2013, on the undercard of Carl Frampton vs. Kiko Martinez at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Smith earned his first stoppage win as a professional, halting Irishman Tommy Tolan, who had previously been beaten by Smith’s brother Paul, in the opening round. On 25 May 2013, he met unbeaten Ryan Moore at London O’Kessler II’s O2 Arena and demonstrated an impressive fourth-round superiority with a first-round knockout. Smith’s bid to become GB Boxing’s light-heavyweight representative at the 2012 Olympic Games in London ended in bitter disappointment and controversy at the final Olympic Qualification Tournament in Trabzon, Turkey.
After losing 16: 14 in inexplicable fashion to Azerbaijan’s Vatan Huseynli in the bout where a win would seal qualification, his hopes now relied on the man who had beat him in the previous round. The following month Smith returned to the ring for another four round contest at the London Olympia, his opponent was James Tucker and once again ‘Mundo’ won every round in a comfortable fashion. In November 2012 Smith scored a clear points win against Dan Blackwell over four rounds in his debut contest, however the victor wasn’t entirely satisfied with his performance. Smith had been short listed for the position but it was eventually decided in a cruel twist for the Englishman, that the place should be awarded to Boško Drašković of Montenegro, a man who Smith had convincingly out pointed earlier in the tournament. In January 2013, Smith made his home debut at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, and in similar fashion saw another Smith win in the first round. Now it was time to step up his level and be given a stiffer test than he had previously provided, the man chosen to provide this was Latvian Ruslanslansi Poisevsky, however Smith’s ability and punching power may have been under-rated as he made short work of his opponent. In April 2013, it was decided by AIBA that an invitational place at the Olympics was to be made available to a boxer of their choice and Smith was short listed.
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