JEFF POWELL: Callum Smith's back was against the ropes all night in his defeat to Canelo Alvarez but the young British fighter refused to go down... the outcome was never in doubt, but neither was his defiance

There could have been no more appropriate venue for the biggest fight of Callum Smith's life than the Alamodome.

Like Jim Bowie and his outnumbered heroes at the fort in San Antonio from which this stadium took its name, the youngest of Liverpool's four boxing brothers fought as if to the last man.

All the way to inevitable defeat at Mexican hands.

When Bowie's mother was told of her legendary son's death as the Alamo fell to the troops of General Santa Anna she said: 'For sure my Jim wasn't shot in the back.