Callum Smith has won the WBA (Super), WBC Diamond and vacant The Ring super-middleweight titles with a seventh round knockout of George Groves in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday.
Smith stopped Groves just after the halfway point of the fight with a devastating series of punches after backing the former super middleweight champion into the corner and dropping him with some brilliant combinations to win the Muhammad Ali trophy.
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Smith defeated Sweden’s Erik Skoglund and Nieky Holzken of Holland en route to the World Boxing Super Series – super middleweight division final with Groves and the Liverpudlian now harbors hopes of unifying the division at Anfield in Liverpool.
“I don’t want to waste my time with pointless fights, I want to get in there and see how good I am – see how far my talent can take me,” Smith told Arab News after his victory.
“I entered this tournament knowing there’s a lot of good fighters in it and I am willing to fight the best and I think I’ve shown that by beating George.
“There’s three other people who call themselves world champion in my weight division and I’d like to fight some of them. I’d like to unify it and collect all the belts.
“Anfield is open to boxing now and I’m ticking off things I’ve always wanted to do and that’s a big one left to tick off.”
