{"id":458039,"date":"2023-09-03T13:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458039"},"modified":"2023-09-03T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:19:55","slug":"eubank-trashes-smith-with-double-knockdown-in-rematch","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/eubank-trashes-smith-with-double-knockdown-in-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubank trashes Smith with double knockdown in rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Eubank Jr. was triumphant in his rematch against Liam Smith after stellar performance, which saw the 33-year-old knock down his opponent twice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT&#39;S \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc06\ud835\udc04! CHRIS EUBANK JR WINS \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmithEubank2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SmithEubank2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zrP5UTJ3xd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zrP5UTJ3xd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Boxing (@SkySportsBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsBoxing\/status\/1698103542232567983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eubank delivered his first severe blow in the 4th round, exactly the time he was knocked down by Smith in their first match.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was the dominant force all along and he gave his opponent very little breathing space.<\/p>\n<p>Round 10 was the last drop for Smith, who fell to the ground again, forcing the referee to stop the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened tonight was supposed to happen in January,&#8221; Eubank said. &#8220;I trained hard, the focus is always there and I dedicate my life to this sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Smith acknowledged his opponent&#8217;s superiority in the game and admitted he hasn&#8217;t been in best of forms lately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris was the better man tonight,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;Chris knows how I was with the weight and after the injury, I came down three stone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was flat as they come from the get go. I couldn&#8217;t move my feet and Chris was sharp.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Eubank Jr. was triumphant in his rematch against Liam Smith after stellar performance, which saw the 33-year-old knock down his opponent twice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458040,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21219,20260],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[21220,21221],"acf":{"announce":"The 33-year-old got his long-awaited revenge","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458041,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458039\/revisions\/458041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458039"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458039"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}