When Ishe Smith finally became Las Vegas’ first homegrown world champion in 2013, he stood in the ring with tears running down his face, shouting:
By Mike Smith: Junior middleweight contender Erickson Lubin (20-1, 15 KOs) completely destroyed 40-year-old former IBF 154 lb champion Ishe Smith (29-11, 12 KOs) by
By Mike Smith: WBA Super World super featherweight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis (20-0, 19 KOs) came in over the weigh-in limit on his first attempt
By Jim Dower: Former junior middleweight world title challenger Erickson ‘The Hammer’ Lubin (19-1, 14 KOs) will be facing 40-year-old former IBF 154 pound champion
Former super welterweight champion Ishe “Sugar Shay” Smith suffered a split decision loss to Detroit’s Tony Harrison live from Sam’s Town in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Andrew Tabiti scored a sixth round KO over Lateef Kayode to remain undefeated in the Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce main event.
By Jeff Aranow: Youth prevailed tonight with junior middleweight contender Tony Harrison (27-2, 21 KOs) using his size and power advantage to pound out a 10 round split decision victory over 39-year-old former IBF 154lb champion Ishe Smith (29-10, 12 KOs) on Friday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce TV at Sam’s Town Hotel Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Stanley White: Junior middleweight Julian “J-Rock” Williams (24-1-1, 15 KOs) added another win to his resume on Saturday night in beating former world champion Ishe Smith (29-9, 12 KOs) by one-sided 10 round unanimous decision on Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Stanley White: Former junior middleweight title challenger Julian “J-Rock” Williams (23-1-1, 15 KOs) will be fighting tonight against former 154lb. world champion Ishe Smith (29-8, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight on Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Jeff Aranow: David Haye sees Chris Eubank Jr. as the only fighter that has the chance of beating IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) if the two of them ever meet each other during their careers. Eubank Jr. already passed on the option of fighting Golovkin last year, and I’m not sure whether he’ll get a second chance unless he can become a big star.
Right now, it would seem that Golovkin is cool to the idea of him facing Eubank Jr. Golovkin already is having a devil of a time just trying to get a fight against Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. He doesn’t need a second headache of trying to get a fight against Eubank Jr., and having no luck.
By Dan Ambrose: Former junior middleweight champion Ishe Smith doesn’t believe that Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez needs to fight IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in the near future. Smith sees the 26-year-old Canelo as having already established himself as a star in boxing. It’s Golovkin who needs Canelo and not the other way around.
Smith says that if it was up to him, he would make Golovkin jump through hoops to get a fight against him if he were in Canelo’s shoes. In other words, if Canelo wants Golovkin to fight him at 155, then he’d have to agree to that weight if he wanted to get the fight against him. Golovkin has nothing that Canelo needs for him to become a star, because he’s already accomplished that.