Hearn on Smith ducking Degale fight and then ducking Dirrell: [MEDIA]
Tesco Joe has a poor record recently and is frightened of extending it.
I'm saying the series won't go ahead as smoothly as planned and Smith shouldn't have ducked a world title fight.
Smith could have boxed for a world title 8 days before but didn't fancy it.
The only person who seems to claim the fight was being pushed back to October was Tesco Joe who somehow overheard some rumours from 5000 miles...
Haha! Smith ducked it because he didn't want to fight one day earlier in Dirrell's hometown.
Skoglund has to fight in Smith's hometown because Smith wouldn't fight in Dirrell's for a world title.
Looks like he's targetting Selby. I don't think Frampton or Quigg will go near him.
Class performance from Galahad. He's a hard fight for any featherweight
Galahad stops a guy who went distance with Santa Cruz
Tesco Joe has just pulled his man out of a world title fight because he didn't like the venue. He's not going to risk his losing streak carrying on.
That's the Tesco version. US press said they were moving the fight forward a day to 8th Sept.
He pulled out of a world title fight because they wanted to bring it forward one day to Sept 8th and move the venue (according to rumours that...
Me too. Hence my comments about Smith pulling out of a world title fight.
In the ESPN rankings only one of the top 7 is in this tournament and that's Groves(#5).