“I did it with Groves for Paul,” Smith told The Associated Press in a video interview, “hopefully I can do it with Canelo for Liam. And it wouldn’t be the first time: In 2018, he knocked out George Groves, who had previously beaten Smith’s oldest brother, Paul, to capture the WBA super-middleweight title. He would take great satisfaction, too, from taking down a conqueror of one of the siblings from a Smith family steeped in boxing. It would go down as one of the most sensational victories in British boxing history, catapulting Smith - an unbeaten 30-year-old fighter from Liverpool - into superstardom. Smith will compete in the biggest fight of his career on Saturday when he attempts to do what only one man, the great Floyd Mayweather, has achieved - beat Alvarez, a four-division world champion who, for many, is the best pound-for-pound boxer around. “So I knew then, and I know now, how good a fighter he is.”įour years later, it’s time to take some family revenge. “He finds gaps and holes that you don’t know you’re leaving,” Smith said of the Mexican boxer. Ringside at a raucous AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Smith can recall in particular the accuracy of Alvarez’s punches, the way he maneuvered his big brother, Liam, into a position to drop him on three occasions - the final time with a brutal body shot. To be a contender, the movie needed to put up a Fresh rating after 20 reviews, before we ranked them with our weighted formula calculating a film’s Tomatometer score, its number of reviews, and year of release.Callum Smith had a front row seat to see his brother dismantled by Canelo Alvarez in a bruising light-middleweight title fight in 2016. And, yes, we’re going international in this corner: see Knuckle all the way from Ireland, and China Heavyweight, all the way from, er, China.
And in another corner (we have a lot of corners): hard-hitting documentaries, repped by When We Were Kings and Unforgivable Blackness. In the other, hungry newcomers like Creed and Million Dollar Baby.
Tonight’s title bout: The best-reviewed boxing movies ever! In one corner, we have heavyweight classics like Rocky and Raging Bull. And then it’s about hitting somebody for money. Undying commitment to the physical vision. In the odd century-plus that’s passed since, boxing cinema has evolved past mere punching for spectacle. Pugilists have been popular camera subjects since the start - boxing, at the time, being arguably the most interesting thing you do to another person in public.
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