Smith offered an intermediate fight before the fight with Beterbiev

Eddie Hearn, WBC Light Heavyweight Mandatory Contender Promoter Callum Smith, said that he wants to arrange an intermediate fight for the ward before the meeting with the WBC, WBO and IBF champion Artur Beterbiev.

According to him, Smith can perform on September 23 on the undercard of the duel between Richardson Hitchins and José Zepeda.

“We tried to get him an undercard fight with Anthony Joshua, but there were two weeks left until the boxing night, and he was planned on PPV, so all the slots were filled. It was simply impossible.

Now we offered him a fight at the end of September in Orlando. But the problem is that we have a date for the fight with Beterbiev - January 13th. Callum could get injured and he's been training for 12 weeks now and he'll have to extend camp for 4-5 weeks.

We offered Smith a fight in September and he's in a bit of a quandary because he hasn't fought in a year. So Callum really wants to perform. But it is very difficult for him to perform, ”ProBox TV quotes Hearn.