Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe will fight next for the WBO cruiserweight world title. John Dennen Sports journalist Thursday 18 January 2024 17:29, UK Promoter Ben Shalom revealed that Billam-Smith and Riakporhe have agreed to fight, and that it could take place at a football ground with dates at Bournemouth's Vitality stadium and Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park being considered. "That's a fight that both fighters have signed to fight. It's a mandatory fight and it's guaranteed to happen next. Another huge fight in British boxing," Shalom told Sky Sports. "We're looking at dates at both Selhurst Park and the Vitality stadium." Billam-Smith suffered a cut in his last fight, a successful world title defence against Mateusz Masternak, and so the fight date will only be set once that has healed. Billam-Smith is the reigning world champion, but Riakporhe is the only man to have defeated him as a professional. They will rematch in all-British world title fight. https://www.skysports.com/boxing/ne...fight-next-in-all-british-world-title-rematch
Chris Billam Smith is a local lad to me as we are both from Bournemouth so I am really hoping the fight is staged at Bournemouth, and of course he avenges his BS loss.
