Smith: I want to be two-weight world champion before retiring | Can Verhoeven shock Usyk? | What next for Fury and AJ?
Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast
Sky Sports
4.1 • 918 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Andy Scott and John Dennen are joined by this week's special guest Callum Smith.
The WBO interim light-heavyweight champion previews his upcoming fight against David Morrell and he's determined to become a two-weight world champion before hanging up the gloves.
They also break down the heavyweight landscape, with Smith giving his thoughts on Oleksandr Usyk's much-anticipated clash with legendary kickboxer Rico Verhoeven.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:01.0 | The champion's back |
| 0:02.0 | The big |
| 0:03.0 | This is how I'll let you get made |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Hello and welcome to another edition of ringside toe to toe, the boxing podcast exclusive to Sky Sports. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Andy Scott, and joining me this week is our very own John Denon of skyspots.com fame. |
| 0:35.9 | Good to see you, John. |
| 0:37.3 | SkySports.com and the app. Download it. That's one of my goals for the year. Increase app downloads. |
| 0:42.2 | Exactly. One of your objectives. |
| 0:43.8 | Later in the show, we'll be hearing from Callum Smith and of his long-awaited clash with David Morel in Liverpool. |
| 0:49.3 | But let's get straight into it, John, with all the latest news from the boxing world. |
| 0:53.5 | Let's start with Ireland. |
| 0:55.0 | I mean, it probably was a great weekend to be an Irish sports fan because if you were actually |
| 1:01.9 | sat at home on the sofa, the rugby finished as Cacace was ringwalking. So I know he's Belfast, |
| 1:09.1 | but what a time to sort of be a rugby slash boxing fan in Dublin at the weekend. |
| 1:13.4 | Paddy's weekend as well. Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone. |
| 1:16.0 | The atmosphere looked good. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, it did look good. |
| 1:18.5 | Katie Taylor ringside. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, a big new heavyweight sort of on the scene as well. |
| 1:24.0 | And it was all very interesting. |
| 1:26.0 | The fight itself was intriguing. |
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