By Scott Gilfoid: Former British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Stephen Smith (14-1, 8 KO’s) picked up another easy 1st round TKO win this time over 29-year-old Ben Jones (12-3-1, 4 KO’s) to grab the vacant WBO Inter-Continental super featherweight title on Friday night at The Troxy, Limehouse, in London, UK.
The fight was rather quick to say the least with the 26-year-old Smith hurting Jones with a right hand to the midsection followed by a right hand to the head that drove him back to the ropes. Smith then tagged the hapless Jones with another right hand that put Jones down on the canvas. Then referee Richard Davies then halted the fight.
It was a reasonably good win but it hardly proved anything. Let’s be real here; Jones isn’t Lee Selby, and that’s the guy that Smith should be fighting. Selby flogged Smith like he was beaten an old rug against a fence when they went at it last September in a fight that saw Smith get battered at will by Selby until he was knocked out in the 8th round. It was never even slightly competitive because Selby was too big, too strong and far too talented for Smith. That was one of those fights where you could put Smith in with Selby 100 times and Smith would get knocked out 100 times. I mean it was total domination by Selby and I can’t see the outcome changing no matter how many weak opponents Smith beats.
In his fight before the Jones massacre, defeated Arpad Vass by a 1st round TKO last December.