Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith will meet in Manchester on January 21 in an all-British crossroads fight.
Eubank, 33, was scheduled to meet Conor Benn in a 157lb catchweight fight last month but the fight was cancelled days out from the event after Benn tested positive for a banned substance. Eubank is now heading back to 160lb after weighing in under the middleweight limit for his axed fight with Benn, as he faces Liverpudlian Smith at the Manchester Arena.
The winner will likely go on to challenge for world honours later next year with the loser left to lick his wounds and deliberate his future. "He’s making a big mistake fighting me," Smith said. "Every time he has stepped up to elite level, he has failed. I am elite and he will fall again.
