Eddie Hearn, promoter of the former world champion Callum Smith, commented on his client’s defeat in a fight against the holder of the WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight titles Artur Beterbiev.
“Amazing performance from Beterbiev. It seems that he is not human. This is true. This seems like an unfair advantage for him. Arthur is very strong, he was barely breathing. He is a machine.
Perhaps Callum started a little slow because Beterbiev is prone to slow starts. Today Arthur was quite passive. I think he respected Callum. Beterbiev boxed well and had good defense.
Smith had a good second round and I thought he was finding his rhythm. But the problem is that as the rounds progressed, he accumulated damage, and this damage was too much. So the question is how much can you handle before you miss too much. You have to get past Beterbiev early to stop that, but Callum couldn’t do that,” Hearn said in an interview with the Boxing Social YouTube channel.
Let us remind you that on the night of January 14, Beterbiev defeated Smith by technical knockout in the seventh round.
