Billam-Smith vs. Okolie 2? “The only way forward,” says Sugar Hill

A REMATCH against Chris Billam-Smith is “the only way forward” for Lawrence Okolie, says his coach Sugar Hill.

The two cruiserweights met last weekend at AFC Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium in front of 15,000 fans, largely to support Billam-Smith. 12 rough and tough rounds ended with the crowd favorite earning a majority decision.

There was already a revenge clause for Okolie if he had lost and his cornerman had told him so. boxing news They want the second fight.

“Yes, that is the only way to go. You don’t want to wait and try to get a rematch. You want to get it right away. He obviously knows there were some things he did (wrong) because of the statements he made, and he wants to correct those things. “He wants to write down his mistakes and he wants to come out victorious.”

What unfolded between the two fighting friends was a complicated contest filled with incidents, point deductions and Billam-Smith going over everything Okolie had to offer. Is Hill confident that the result can be reversed in a rematch?

“I’m very sure of it,” he replied.

“I was confident in this fight. I’m going to be confident in every fight. That will be something Lawrence and I will talk about and we want to figure it out for him. Maybe if he had said hide and seek or something, he would have gone back to how he was doing in a training camp and wouldn’t be so anxious. I don’t know. “I’m a crazy thinker, so sometimes you have to think outside the box to make things work properly.”

The neighborhood itself said B.N. in his dressing room that the next thing he wants is revenge.

“It has to be like this. I’m not the kind of person who says, “Let these two guys fight and this and that.” We ran it back.”

Billam-Smith agreed. that Okolie would want nothing more than a chance at redemption.

“He is a proud man. He’s a winner at heart and I think that makes sense for him and also why he wouldn’t do it. You have a world title shot again, it’s not like I provoked it cleanly. So, yeah, I would expect him to want a rematch.”