It was through his fingers that Callum Smith last took a close look at Canelo Alvarez. The sight of him beating up his older brother has stayed with him.
‘It wasn’t nice,’ he tells Sportsmail. ‘I remember it quite clearly. I’m never good at watching one of my brothers. After the first knockdown that night, I mostly just wanted him to be OK.’
The youngest of that astonishing quartet of boxing brothers from Liverpool is remembering the hot night in 2016 when Liam Smith went to Texas to make the third defence of his world light-middleweight title against Alvarez.