Is Liam Smith a homophobe?

[handsofstone]

He is from Brighton so.......

[KiwiRider]

Talk about - Beefy's Fake Beef Backfire - as the redtops will have it.
Smith now goes into this fight worrying that he will be cancelled. And he probably will. So no good night's sleep for him.

[dookus]

Talk about - Beefy's Fake Beef Backfire - as the redtops will have it.
Smith now goes into this fight worrying that he will be cancelled. And he probably will. So no good night's sleep for him.

Does that go down as a stoppage for Eubank?

[Nightmare Roy]

Isn't the sister autistic or something?

Yeh, good thing he didn't say that..

Who even said that in the Rahman-Lewis build up?

Must have missed that..

Lewis in response to Rahman insinuating he was gay, leading to a studio kerfuffle and broken table

Edit: at 0:36 on

Two cracking KO's them

[margaret thatcher]

wouldnt shock me if cej is gay , and i mean it just adds insult to injury now for smith if this supposed gay man beats him

the fantastic emile griffith enjoyed men too, doesnt mean dude can't be a bad arse in the ring

[margaret thatcher]

anyone remember when liam and swifty were arrested for this - maybe it makes more sense now

Merseyside boxing brothers arrested and bailed over street brawl in Liverpool's gay quarter

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... ed-7520154

[Ruthless-RKO]

anyone remember when liam and swifty were arrested for this - maybe it makes more sense now

Merseyside boxing brothers arrested and bailed over street brawl in Liverpool's gay quarter

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... ed-7520154

I remember this.

[handsofstone]

anyone remember when liam and swifty were arrested for this - maybe it makes more sense now

Merseyside boxing brothers arrested and bailed over street brawl in Liverpool's gay quarter

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... ed-7520154

[tonyevs]

Now that I think of it. Junior does give off those vibes.

That beard ..

[jameswilson]

Eubank Jr won that part of the presser hands down. I don’t believe Jr to be gay so he could have easily just said ‘no im not gay’ but he deliberately didn’t answer the question for an extended period while Liam hung himself a bit.

Despite that tho I still want Smith to win.

[smiling assassin]

wouldnt shock me if cej is gay , and i mean it just adds insult to injury now for smith if this supposed gay man beats him

the fantastic emile griffith enjoyed men too, doesnt mean dude can't be a bad arse AROUND the ring

Fixed it for ya mate

[GreenLightning]

Watch two boxers try to knock each other unconscious but do not insinuate that someone might be gay.

Well it's just in very poor taste but now people will make a big deal about it being removed and pretend it's other people making it a big deal

There were quite a few people disturbingly happy when that openly gay American boxer got KOd badly a few years ago I remember

I don't understand why people feel the need to come out in the first place. Who we have sex with has nothing to do with anyone else.

That SHOULD be the case yet this whole thread is about Liam Smith implying there's something wrong with being gay, and a lot of people still feel there's something wrong with being gay, and some gay people even think it's wrong to be gay and struggle to come to terms with their sexuality

It's not about making a dramatic performative announcement, which it's why it's unfortunately though it's better nowadays, it's still a big deal to be "officially" recognised as a gay person

[Manchester Hitman]

I wouldn’t want to be Liam when he see’s his Missus next…even if the cheating stuff is BS hes getting it. Let’s hope he is staying away until after Saturday, otherwise there might not be a fight

[GreenLightning]

Bigotry can be hard and soft (penis joke here)

For example the often used excuse of "what do you expect from people who get punched/hurt others/do blood sports for a living"

That's called the soft bigotry of low expectations, boxers get it all the time

[samwbr]

I wouldn’t want to be Liam when he see’s his Missus next…even if the cheating stuff is BS hes getting it. Let’s hope he is staying away until after Saturday, otherwise there might not be a fight

Course there will, don't be ridiculous.

[TheLeprechaun]

Terrible from Liam Smith. Shows the mentality of them. When they do things like this, they still don't even have the ability to understand why they come across as scumbags way after the fact.

[Ezzard]

Watch two boxers try to knock each other unconscious but do not insinuate that someone might be gay.

Agree.

[Ezzard]

This is nothing. So what? They're fighters and they're wound up tight right now. No gay people give a shit about this. And gay and straight people get the slur.

[Ezzard]

anyone remember when liam and swifty were arrested for this - maybe it makes more sense now

Merseyside boxing brothers arrested and bailed over street brawl in Liverpool's gay quarter

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... ed-7520154

Ouch, if they're taking violence to the "gay community" that's not right.

[Steveh583]

threats you are going to damage or kill your opponent are fine, but don't ask if a mans gay. liam was hardly that bad its just people look for it now.

[Coco]

Poor form from Eubank, missing a clear opportunity to reference the build up to Rahman v Lewis II by inviting Smith to bring his sister along to verify Eubank's sexuality

Would have been a quality answer! Or his mother!!

But it's all hype, building up to a great fight

[watsupdoc87]

anyone remember when liam and swifty were arrested for this - maybe it makes more sense now

Merseyside boxing brothers arrested and bailed over street brawl in Liverpool's gay quarter

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... ed-7520154

Haha thats funny. I used to do the door on superstar boudoir , the club mentioned, twice a week. Handy number. Loads of birds actually. Nobody ever mentioned that. Tony bellew actually came in 1 night tho with either a mate or brother , they had a laugh

[MightyWarrior]

I mean come on, it’s no surprise that a rough and ready hard-case like Smith is not going to tread daintily around the issue. It’s just the way things are in British sport at present, for the same reason not one footballer will come out as gay among the hundreds of thousands who play in this country. And boxing is even more macho.

Funny that the tenderfoots at sky are clutching their pearls in horror.

[Verdi]

Only real way to get under Eubank Jr's skin is to mock his mentally ill father. I think current boxers respect the past greats to do that though, but it'd work.

[milpool]

I enjoyed it when CEJ said that he thought Tony Bellew was the biggest arsehole from Liverpool but that Liam had now taken that title