AHEAD of their World Boxing Super Series final, George Groves and Callum Smith held their first head-to-head press conference at in London Friday.
Their WBA super-middleweight championship fight will take place on September 28 at the King Abdullah Sports City, a 10,000 seat indoor arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, an unusual location for an all-British world title clash.
โIโm finally sitting here for my world title fight, which Iโve been waiting for for a long time,โ Liverpoolโs Smith said. โIโve finally got a chance to prove I can go out and become a world champion.
โA world title fight thatโs when big fighters raise their game,โ he continued. โIโm expecting the toughest fight of my career and Iโm training for that.โ
But he warned, โIโm a better fighter than anyone heโs faced previously especially in this tournament.โ
And he adds, โIโve always risen to the occasion.”
โIn terms of the tournament, heโll be the toughest test yet,โ was all Groves would concede. But he maintains, โItโll be another comfortable win. So far the tournamentโs gone to form bookโฆ I donโt envisage anything different this time around.
โCallumโs still an unknown quantity at the top level. Heโs yet to make that final step. Weโll have to find out.โ