“I thought he would quit after taking some stick and being tired and whatever else. He just quit. It’s a proper strange one. I can’t put my finger on why he done what he done as early as he did.”
Smith did not believe that Mwakinyo’s trip in the third round had hurt his opponent, especially because the Tanzanian attacked forcefully following and landed one of his finest blows of the fight.
“[It was] then he landed a shot, then he went southpaw and then started coming for me a little bit,” he noted.
Smith was stunned by the way Hassan Mwakinyo left, but there was also something about it that didn’t surprise him.
“I knew he had that in him from the sparring,” Smith said. “The sparring was just over two years ago. He was doing it, but to be fair he was doing it then taking a bit of stick. I was beating him up a little bit.
“I can’t see why he has done it [last night]. I understand doing it if he was taking a load of stick but he wasn’t. He wasn’t at that time. But probably knew what was coming.”
“They’ve got to deliver me a big fight so we’ll wait and see. [This fight] was going to be over the super-welter limit because Eubank was going to be next,” he said.
“If Eubank’s not next, I’m a super-welterweight and I’ll make super-welterweight again.
“I’ll take any options as long as I get options of a decent fight. I feel I’m big enough and strong enough at the weight if that comes [at middle].
“It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the titles now, even at 154lbs, it’ll be interesting.
“I want to push to become a world champion but if they [Eubank and Benn] come in the picture, I’ll take either one of them.”
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