{"id":516308,"date":"2026-04-06T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:56:07","slug":"callum-smith-vs-david-morrell-fight-off-after-injury-suffered-in-smith-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516308\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Smith vs David Morrell fight off after injury suffered in Smith training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The upcoming battle between Callum Smith<\/a> and David Morrell<\/a> will no longer be happening.<\/p>\n

Smith last fought in February 2025 when he was involved in a fight of the year contender against Joshua Buatsi<\/a>, claiming the unanimous decision win in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to secure the WBO interim light heavyweight title.<\/p>\n

Over 12 months on from that bout, he was set to make his long-awaited return against Morrell in his hometown of Liverpool on April 18, but with less than two weeks to go until the showdown, disaster has unfortunately struck.<\/p>\n

According to journalist Mike Coppinger<\/a>, the Liverpudlian has been forced to pull out of the bout after sustaining an injury whilst training.<\/p>\n

\u201cCallum Smith suffered an injury in training camp and is withdrawing from his light heavyweight fight vs. David Morrell on April 18 in Liverpool, sources tell Ring Magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith was hoping to move one step closer to becoming a two-weight world champion, having previously reigned as WBC super-middleweight champion thanks to a win over George Groves in 2018 before he lost that belt to Canelo Alvarez in 2020.<\/p>\n

That prompted the move to 175lbs, and despite a defeat to Artur Beterbiev in January 2024, Smith remained one of the key fighters in the light heavyweight division.<\/p>\n

The bout against former WBA Regular champion Morrell was set to serve as a tough test for Smith, with Morrell only having lost to David Benavidez in his career so far<\/a>, but now it is unknown whether or not the clash between the two men will be rescheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming battle between Callum Smith and David Morrell will no longer be happening. Smith last fought in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}