{"id":70423,"date":"2018-02-15T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=70423"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:34:53","slug":"callum-smith-has-boxing-world-talking-with-his-prediction-for-george-groves-chris-eubank-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=70423","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith Has the Boxing World Talking with His Prediction for George Groves &#8211; Chris Eubank, JR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=70423\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=70423\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56546 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Callum-Smith-519133-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Callum Smith believes he will face George Groves in the final for the Muhammad Ali Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroves-Eubank is a good fight, a very good one. The winner will become an even bigger name after the weekend,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is fully focused on his semi-final against Germany&#8217;s Juergen Braehmer next weekend at the Arena N\u00fcrnberger Versicherung in Nuremberg. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But he is keeping an eye on Saturday\u2019s event in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been following the build-up a bit and I will watch the fight at home. One of them will be my opponent in the final and as a boxing fan, it\u2019s a good fight. I am fully concentrated on my own fight, but I will watch this one on the telly.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey both have strength and weaknesses at different points. Groves has got the jab, the boxing brain and the size on his side. I think his weakness is his stamina issues whereas Eubank\u2019s strength is his stamina. Eubanks weakness might be his boxing ability at distance, where I feel Groves is the better man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf would have to pick, I will pick Groves on points. I believe he will win the early rounds, a few rocky moments later on, but in the end, he will win on points,\u201d said Smith before talking about his upcoming challenge:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very confident that I will beat Juergen Braehmer next Saturday in Nuremberg. And I am confident that I will beat the winner of this weekend\u2019s semi-final. I entered this tournament to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gjLOAJYWf4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callum Smith believes he will face George Groves in the final for the Muhammad Ali Trophy. \u201cGroves-Eubank is a good fight, a very good one. The winner will become an even bigger name after the weekend,\u201d said Smith. Smith is fully focused on his semi-final against Germany&#8217;s Juergen Braehmer next weekend at the Arena N\u00fcrnberger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17742,410],"class_list":["post-70423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-callum-smith-has-the-boxing-world-talking-with-his-prediction-for-george-groves-chris-eubank","tag-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70423"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}