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Smith picks up clinical win
- Updated: September 10, 2016
Callum Smith picked up another stoppage success with Norbert Nemesapati’s corner pulling him out after a clinical sixth-round bodyshot.
The youngest of the four historic boxing brothers moved to 21-0-KO16 on the same night Paul won in style and seven days before Liam takes on Mexican superstar Saul Alvarez out in America.
Smith also retained his WBC Silver super-middleweight belt and despire Nemesapati’s (21-4-KO16) game approach, the Liverpudlian also sent out a warning to current WBC world champion Badou Jack and IBF boss James DeGale, who was ringside at The O2.
The 26-year-old again showed he carried the range and the variety to surely take on the best at 168lbs. The left bodyshot that stopped the fight in the fifth came from nowhere but landed with such precision, and within a few seconds the impact left Nemesapati struggling to breath, even without his …
