Callum Smith is your new interim WBO light heavyweight world champion!
Stepping inside the squared circle against Joshua Buatsi inside the AMD Arena in Riyadh, the all-Brit battle delivered an exciting edge-of-your-seat scrap for 12 full rounds. In the end, it was ‘Mundo’ who ran away with it on the scorecards to claim interim light heavyweight gold.
Smith relentlessly worked his opponent’s body throughout the fight, but as Smith began to lose steam, Buatsi picked up some much-needed momentum in the later rounds.