Opinion
Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Williams: Date, UK start time, TV channel and card
CHRIS EUBANK JR takes on rival Liam Williams this weekend in an enormous British middleweight grudge match.
The British Boxing Board of Management needed to cancel the bout together with each combat within the UK all through January, but it surely’s now again on and set to happen this weekend.
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Eubank Jr has fought twice to date in 2021, seeing off Marcus Morrison and Wanik Awdijan as he appears to construct in direction of Gennady Golovkin and a world title shot.
Williams in the meantime acquired his likelihood on the WBO middleweight crown in the summertime, however fell on the flawed aspect of an unanimous choice towards Demetrius Andrade.
This would be the Welshman’s first bout in Cardiff since 2018, the place he scored an emphatic second spherical KO of Craig Nicholson.
There isn’t any love-lost between the 2 fighters and this Better of British combat might be one of many highlights of 2021.
When is Eubank Jr vs Williams?
- The large home dust-up was set for Saturday, January 29 – however was POSTPONED for a second time.
- Initially, the combat was scheduled for December 11, however a shoulder harm for Williams had put the combat again by six weeks.
- It’ll now be held this weekend on Saturday, February 5.
- It will likely be held on the Motorpoint Enviornment in Cardiff, which is able to home round 7,000 combat followers.
- The night’s leisure will begin round 6pm, with the principle occasion round 10pm GMT.
Which TV channel and dwell stream can I watch it on?
It is possible for you to to look at each jab, duck and upper-cut on Sky Sports activities Enviornment.
Actual occasions are but to be confirmed however it’s seemingly the night’s leisure will broadcast from 7pm.
If you happen to’re not a Sky buyer, you possibly can watch by grabbing a NOW TV go from £9.99.
SunSport can be working a devoted dwell weblog for this combat, so that you don’t miss any of the drama.
Who else is preventing on the undercard?
As but, the ultimate card is but to be confirmed.
However right here’s how issues are on the lookout for combat night time within the Welsh capital:
- Chris Eubank Jr vs Liam Williams (middleweight)
- Claressa Shields vs Ema Kozin (girls’s WBC, WBA, IBF, WBF middlweight title)
- Samuel Antwi vs Conah Walker (BBBofC English welterweight title)
- Caroline Dubois vs Vaida Masiokaite (4 rounds – light-weight)
- Otto Wallin vs Kamil Sokolowski (6 rounds – heavyweight)
- Rhys Edwards vs TBC
- Bradley Rea vs TBC
What they stated
Eubank Jr: “I’m no stranger to going into the lion’s den. I’ve been booed into arenas many occasions earlier than.
“It doesn’t have an effect on me. If something, it makes me combat more durable, if the gang is towards me. To not say that I’m hoping they’re. I hope that I obtain a heat welcome.
“However both manner, I’m going to go in there and get the job completed.”
Williams: “He’s a pretender. He simply needs to make individuals consider that he’s at a sure degree and all people else is irrelevant and a nobody, however the actuality of it’s he’s a clown.”
“We each have a method the place we need to be concerned in good fights and we will’t assist however be concerned in them as a result of we’re each gutsy fighters.
“The followers are going to be the winners.”
