{"id":544059,"date":"2026-03-18T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:29:11","slug":"callum-smith-says-morrell-fight-could-end-career-with-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544059\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith Says Morrell Fight Could End Career With Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxingnews24.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add EBoxing News 24as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqLAgKIiZDQklTRmdnTWFoSUtFR0p2ZUdsdVoyNWxkM015TkM1amIyMG9BQVAB?ceid=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow Boxing News 24 on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want the world title, a two-weight world champion,\u201d Smith said to Sky Sports. \u201cI\u2019ve been there before at 168. I want the Ring Magazine belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I can get back to where I was, and a win over David Morrell puts me very close to being there,\u201d Smith said. \u201cCan I go back and rebuild if I lose? No, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve got the time or the effort to want to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No mention of easing back in or taking another route. Smith is tying the rest of his career to one result against David Morrell, and understandably so. He doesn\u2019t possess the youth to go through a long four-year rebuild if he loses to the Cuban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA win puts me very, very close to what I wanted to achieve,\u201d Smith said. \u201cA loss, it\u2019s probably the end of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winning will keep Smith in line for a shot at a world title and a massive payday that comes with it at light heavyweight. However, it\u2019s likely that Callum will still need to wait in line for a crack at the belts at 175, while the fights play out among Dmitry Bivol, Artur Beterbiev and David Benavidez.<\/p>\n<p>Morrell, unbeaten and still building his position at 175, represents the kind of opponent that doesn\u2019t allow for careful planning. It\u2019s a fight that demands something close to a full performance, not a step toward one.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been at the top before. The question now is whether he can reach it again without the time usually needed to work his way back.<\/p>\n<p>Smith (31-1, 22 KOs) will defend his WBO interim light heavyweight title against #1-ranked David Morrell (12-1, 9 KOs) in a 12-round fight on April 18, 2026, at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England. The event will be streamed on DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Galm is a boxing journalist who has covered the global fight landscape since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, industry trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI just want the world title, a two-weight world champion,\u201d Smith said to Sky Sports. \u201cI\u2019ve been there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-544059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}