{"id":586644,"date":"2026-04-06T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:30:08","slug":"callum-smith-injured-pulled-from-david-morrell-jr-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586644\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith injured, pulled from David Morrell Jr fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One of this month\u2019s better fights is kaput, as Mike Coppinger <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/2041182297861628310\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that Callum Smith suffered an unspecified injury ahead of his April 18th DAZN main event against David Morrell Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matchroom has yet to release a statement; it\u2019s such a top-heavy show that we can almost certainly expect them to postpone the whole deal. The McGrails and Leo Atang do not a blockbuster show make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith (31-2, 22 KO) is coming off one of the best wins of his career over Joshua Buatsi last February, but has yet to see action since. Inactivity has been a trend for him over the last several years; before the quick turnaround between Carlos Galvan and Buatsi, he faced layoffs of 10 months, 17 months, and 11 months between his previous fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Morrell (12-1, 9 KO) fought twice in 2025, dropping a decision to David Benavidez in February before battling Imam Khataev to a contentious split decision five months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Their styles promised a firefight, so fingers crossed Smith isn\u2019t too damaged. We\u2019ll let you know when and if Matchroom announces their plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of this month\u2019s better fights is kaput, as Mike Coppinger reports that Callum Smith suffered an unspecified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-586644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586644","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=586644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}