Smith’s Summer Fight: Yarde or Benavidez?

Callum Smith is in negotiations with Anthony Yarde and David Benavidez to fight in the summer. Smith’s heavy weight champion, Smith, revealed that conversations with WBC and WBA Benavidez’s “Regular” champion are longer.

Smith’s Summer Struggle Options

If the struggle is not done, a clash against the garden is a possibility of Callum. There are more things for Smith (31-2, 22 kos) to win the fight against Benavidez, but it is a much tougher struggle for him. If his promoter, Eddie Hearn, has any contribution to his decision, it would not be a surprise if he chose the easiest struggle against the garden instead of tangle with the “Mexican monster”.

TRang reports May Smith be in Yarde negotiations for a summer fight. This struggle will probably be done, leaving Benavidez high and dry. It is bad news for any of these British.

Smith is already inside the catbird seatWith the title of 175 LB of Wbo. You can sit and wait for a possible crack to the winner of the Dmitry Bivol vs Artur Beeterbiev trilogy match. The possibilities are high that the winner of this struggle would prefer to fight Callum than to face Benavidez. Yarde is a soft selection for Smith compared to Benavidez. You will probably take a garden on the “Mexican monster” any day of the week.

Smith has put himself in a massive payment position against Bivol-Beerebiev 3 winner, and Hearn does not want to ruin this by letting him fight Benavidez. No matter how good Smith is, Benavidez was cut by Benavidez and sent to retirement.

BENAVIDEZ: Bivol cryptonite?

Bivol is not crazy. He knows that Benavidez is a cryptonite for his style of defensive struggle and pursued him and finished his reign as a champion. Turki Alshikh could set up as many come as you want, but Bivol will never surpass Benavidez. That is why he will choose Callum Smith and will never fight against him unless he is offered ridiculous money.

Yarde (27-3, 24 kos) has won his last four fights since he was eliminated in the eighth round by former IBF champion, WBC and Wbo, Beterbiev, Beterbiev, in 2023.

Callum arrives at a tiring unanimous decision of 12 rounds on Joshua Buatsi on February 22 in Riyadh. This was a 35-year-old hard struggle for Smith, but he did it with his power and constant pressure against the worn Buatsi. Moving from that struggle directly to a war with Benavidez would not be the smartest to make Callum.