{"id":905628,"date":"2026-09-26T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905628\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:26:10","slug":"chris-billam-smith-vs-cheavon-clarke-headlines-zuffa-boxing-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905628\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith vs Cheavon Clarke headlines Zuffa Boxing 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former amateur rivals Chris Billam-Smith and Cheavon Clarke will meet atop Zuffa Boxing\u2019s first London show on November 7th at Copper Box Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Billam-Smith (22-2, 14 KO), who managed two defenses of the WBO cruiserweight title before coughing it up to \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez, is already having a banner year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/116217\/zuffa-boxing-7-result-chris-billam-smith-outlasts-ryan-rozicki-war-attrition-clarke-massey-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating the living dogsh*t out of Ryan Rozicki this past June<\/a>. \u201cThe Gentleman\u201d is still going strong at 36 years old, and while I don\u2019t think anyone considers him in the same tier as Zuffa cohort Jai Opetaia or division invader David Benavidez, he remains one of the better 200-pounders in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The same can\u2019t really be said for Clarke (12-2, 9 KO), whose late pro start necessitated a mad dash through the ranks that Leonardo Mosquea and Viddal Riley halted in its tracks. His career looked over after a nasty knockdown at the hands of Jack Massey on that same Zuffa 7 show, but roared back for a comeback finish to keep the dream alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He does sport two wins over Billam-Smith in the amateur ranks, so he\u2019s got that going for him, at least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Also on tap is a quality light heavyweight showdown pitting Zach Parker (26-2, 18 KO) against amateur standout Umar Dzambekov (14-0, 10 KO). Parker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/111223\/joshua-buatsi-wins-controversial-decision-over-zach-parker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arguably deserved a win over Joshua Buatsi last November<\/a> and Dzambekov started his Zuffa career with a two-round demolition of Ahmed Elbiali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former amateur rivals Chris Billam-Smith and Cheavon Clarke will meet atop Zuffa Boxing\u2019s first London show on November&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-905628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}