Paul Smith
Photo by Martin Rose
Paul Smith has become a laughing-stock in the British fight scene, so he and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would actually make a good pair.
He’s lost three fights in a row, two straight at the hands of WBO Super Middleweight champion Arthur Abraham, and more recently to Super Middleweight lineal champion Andre Ward.
Ward hadn’t fought in a year and a half when he took on Smith on June 20, 2015, and it was clear that Smith was brought in to help Ward ease back into the game.
Smith stepped on the scale 4.5 pounds overweight on weigh in day, very Chavez-like, then got his ass handed to him for nine rounds before being stopped, also very Chavez-like.
It would be an interesting situation matching up Chavez and Smith, both guys would be desperate for a win, and only God knows how much they’d weigh for the fight.
Team Chavez could see it as a very winnable fight, and also a justifiable opponent since Smith is coming off three straight bouts against 168-pound champions.
Maybe a win over Smith would be enough for Al Haymon to convince the general public that Chavez is worthy of taking on the winner of Badou Jack vs. George Groves, who fight for Jack’s WBC Super Middleweight title on August 8, 2015 in Las Vegas.
