Liam Smith: Briton ready to accept Chris Eubank Jr rematch but open to Kell Brook fight

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Liam Smith says helium is "open to anything" aft stopping Chris Eubank Jr successful circular four of their middleweight contention successful Manchester connected Saturday.

Eubank has a rematch clause but Smith said erstwhile welterweight satellite champion Kell Brook, oregon middleweight large Gennady Golovkin were besides options.

Brook, 36, retired aft beating Amir Khan successful 2022, but Smith's promoter suggested that the combat could beryllium made.

"I've got bully options, I'm successful a bully position," said 34-year-old Smith.

"If [Eubank] wants that rematch, I'll springiness it to him. I'm unfastened to anything, I ever person been. If it's Chris next, it's Chris next.

"Ben Shalom (from Smith's promoter Boxxer) said Kell wants to combat the winner. That's a immense fight. There's speech of Golovkin. We're successful a bully position."

Fellow Briton Brook, 36, won the IBF satellite rubric successful the lighter welterweight part during his vocation but announced his status successful May 2022, 3 months aft beating Khan.

Kazakh combatant Golovkin has won aggregate satellite titles astatine middleweight, with the lone 2 defeats successful his 45-fight vocation coming against Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, who is regarded arsenic the champion pound-for-pound combatant successful the world.

Shalom said it was up to 33-year-old Eubank if helium wanted to activate the rematch clause.

Eubank suggested connected societal media aft the combat helium would bash that, but Smith insisted helium would privation the 2nd combat to beryllium successful his location city.

"This has to beryllium close for maine now, connected my terms," helium said. "[I privation it in] Liverpool. The wealth broadside to it [has to change]."

Smith has stopped his past 4 opponents and moved up to middleweight to combat Eubank.

The intriguing combat threatened to beryllium overshadowed by an ugly build-up successful combat week, wherever Eubank suffered taunts astir his sexuality from Smith but responded with jibes of his ain astir societal people and idiosyncratic attacks connected Smith astir infidelity.

Eubank apologised, admitting helium "regretted" what helium had said.

Smith concisely addressed the contention successful his post-fight quality conference.

"It got a small spot retired of manus betwixt maine and Chris," helium said.

"I instrumentality what Chris said with a pinch of salt. I don't deliberation helium means it. A batch was said."

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