By Trevor McIntyre: Former IBO super middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (26-2, 20 KOs) and John Ryder (26-4, 14 KOs) will reportedly be on standby for the finals of the George Groves vs. Callum Smith World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) tournament finals. The recently beaten Eubank Jr. and Ryder would get the call to fill in if either of the current finals needs to pull out, according to KristineBishop.
By The Commissioner: A tournament you say?
Everyone loves a knockout tournament, am I right or am I right?
Back in 2009 we were blessed with a super middleweight tournament which contained six elite fighters; Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Jermain Taylor, Arthur Abraham and Andre Dirrell. The tournament was called The Super Six World Boxing Classic and was the brainchild of Sauerland Promotions in conjunction with Richard Schaefer and Showtime. The format was a group stage where each fighter was to take part in 3 bouts, points were to be awarded for wins, bonuses for knockouts with the top 4 eventually going through to take the semi-final berths.
By Jim Dower: George Groves (28-3, 20 KOs) could be replaced by Chris Eubank Jr. for his finals match against Callum Smith in the World Boxing Super Series super middleweight tournament. Groves suffered a dislocated shoulder in his 12 round unanimous win over Eubank Jr. last February in the semifinals of the WBSS tournament.
By Marcus Richardson: George Groves (28-3, 20 KOs) will be having shoulder surgery on Monday to repair his injured left shoulder, and he says he’ll be asking the World Boxing Super Series organizers to delay his finals fight against Callum Smith 1 month until July.
By Marcus Richardson: The semifinals of the World Boxing Super Series tournament will continue tonight with unbeaten Callum Smith (23-0, 17 KOs) meeting up with alternate Nieky Holzken (13-0, 10 KOs) in a contest to determine the opponent to meet George Groves (28-2, 20 KOs0 in the finals of the tournament on June 2 at the O2 Arena in London, England.
By Scott Gilfoid: Chris Eubank Jr. is predicting a vicious knockout win over WBA Super World super middleweight champion George Groves on Saturday for their semifinals match in the WBSS tournament. For Eubank Jr. to follow through with his bold prediction, he’s going to need to put his chin and midsection on the line by standing in the pocket long enough for him to land a massive amount of punches for him to get the knockout.
By Marcus Richardson: George Groves (27-3, 20 KOs) views Chris Eubank Jr. (26-1, 20 KOs) as having no chance at all of winning in their fight in 11 days from now in the semifinals of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) super middleweight tournament on February 17 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
By Jeff Aranow: unification fight between IBF World cruiserweight champion Murat ‘Iron’ Gassiev (26-0, 19 KOs) and WBA World cruiserweight champion Yunier ‘The KO Doctor’ Dorticos (22-1, 21 KOs) in their fight at the Ice Dome in Adler, Russia.
By Dan Ambrose: WBO World super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (37-0, 25 KOs) took care of business last Saturday night in stopping challenger Habib Ahmed (25-1-1, 17 KOs) in the 6th round to successfully defend his title.