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Callum Smith

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Callum John Smith is a British professional boxer. He has held the WBO interim light-heavyweight title since 2025, and earlier was a world champion at super-middleweight, with the WBA and Ring magazine titles from 2018 to 2020. He won both of those belts in the World Boxing Super Series, where he also claimed the Muhammad Ali Trophy. At regional level, he held the British and European super-middleweight titles between 2015 and 2017. As an amateur, he took silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He is the youngest of the Smith brothers, alongside Paul, Stephen, and Liam, all of whom are professional boxers.

“Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.”

“If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.”

“Canelo is a special fighter.”

“If I can't get a unification fight, then there's other tops names, even though they haven't got a world title, ie Golovkins, stuff like that.”

“When I left school I went to college and then I remember doing three weeks labouring for someone and it was the worst three weeks of my life.”

“When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.”

“I do believe when I put those little gloves on I can hurt anyone.”

“Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.”

“I'm a big believer that, if you're good enough, then why wait around fighting a load of journeymen for a few years? If you're good enough, then step up.”

“Number one is somewhere I always believed I would be.”

“I'm very thankful people have paid their hard-earned money to come out and watch me.”

MONEY GRATITUDE

“Listen, I know how good I am, how good I can be.”

“I've got a height advantage over everyone but when they do get at me I can fight just as well inside.”

“I don't want to be forever rewinding the Groves fight because I want to have loads of others to watch too.”

“I'm proud to be British champion, and I'll defend it until I can get a fight for a world title.”

“As long as it was George Groves in the opposite corner with his world title, the date was irrelevant to me. I was prepared to wait as long as it took to get that fight for the world title.”

“There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.”

“Every time I step up I win so why not keep going.”

“I don't know if I will ever be satisfied but I will keep going until hopefully I am.”

“Styles make fights.”