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THE already impressive reinvention of Liam Williams will become a thing of Welsh legend if he defeats WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade on Saturday night (April 17). While the might of Andrade is substantial, it’s not insurmountable, and victory for the ferocious challenger will not only see Williams score one of the most impressive wins in his country’s fighting history, it could also set up a monster all-British clash with a boxer Williams has wanted to face for a long time.
It’s fitting that the Welshman gets this chance – in sunny Florida, against an unbeaten and talented American fighter, for an established world belt – three months after Chris Eubank Jnr declared, in his typical grandiose way, that Williams was not on his level and two weeks before Eubank Jnr takes on Marcus Morrison in Manchester instead.
If this fight game is all about levels, which we’re told time and time again it is, then Eubank Jnr seems
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