The other champions back.

Whoo!

This is how a legend get made.

Last off in the brave new world.

Bring on the game change.

Dang, champs, like big.

I'm going on because I gotta have much more.

All tight, are you ready for the round of your life?

Hello and welcome to To To To On the Road. A bonus episode of the Sky Sports Boxing

Podcast. I'm John Denon and I'm in Manchester for a big fight to kick off a big 2023 for boxing, Chris UBank

Jr. versus Liam Smith. A match-up at Middleway that I'm very much looking forward to. Both like to go forward, both like to let

hands go and neither wants to back down. They'll fight at a sold-out Manchester arena on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

It could be another classic all British battle.

So who better to speak to the now Hall of Famer Carl Froch, who had his epic first fight with George

Groves at the Manchester Arena and who will be on the broadcast team for this fight on

Saturday night. Here's what he had to say ahead of U Bank Smith.

On the outset I got Chris U Bank Jr. as a favorite just because of the size and I know he's got relentless work rate and it's tough. But Liam Smith,

Liam Smith's a very good all-round fighter. He doesn't do anything particularly special,

any one thing, but he's a great box so he can fight up close and punch a bit it's

tough got bags of experience so I don't know this could be this fight literally

could go either way but I'm gonna I'm gonna make my prediction when I've seen them at the press conference and see what I'll look like on the scales and take it from there. But this for me is probably the biggest British file I've been looking forward to in

ages I mean everything Tyson Fiore does I like to watch just because he's so

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