LIAM: I WANT TO FACE EU NEXT

LIAM SMITH is ready to face Chris Eubank Jnr next – if Eubank beats Conor Benn in their October clash.

But the Liverpool fighter insists he is not begging for a showdown with the son of the British boxing legend and just wants a big fight next.

Smith (left) beat Hassan Mwakinyo in bizarre circumstances on Saturday, when the Tanzanian took a knee twice in quick succession and was stopped in the fourth round.

The former WBO lightmiddleweight champion was fuming with the outcome as he wanted a conclusive finish.

But now all eyes are on what is next with options on the table for ‘Beefy’.

Quit

He said: “I wanted a conclusive finish but in my eyes he quit. It is not how I wanted to win, I wanted to put on a show but I was getting there.

“Now it is a big one next. When I signed with Boxxer and Sky again, I was promised this comeback fight and then the next one would be a big one.

“Of course, I want to fight Chris Eubank, that would be a big fight that would get the whole country excited. ”

Eubank Jnr went over to Matchroom to face Benn in a battle of British boxing icon’s sons on October 8.

Smith is ready to move up to middleweight but hasn’t ruled out becoming a twotime world champion at 11 stone.

Undisputed champion

Jermell Charlo faces Tim Tszyu in January but then the belts may be split up.

“I just want a big fight,” said Smith. “The Eubank fight would be huge but to call myself the first twotime world champion from Liverpool would be great.

Liverpool’s Natasha Jonas, meanwhile, won her second world title at the M&S Bank Arena on the undercard on Saturday night, outpointing previously unbeaten Swede Patricia Berghult, to add the WBC light-middleweight crown to her WBO belt.

Gasquet has not won a set since 2008 and for more than an hour even a game was beyond him.

He eventually stopped the rot at 6-0 3-0, accepting the crowd’s acclaim, and at least made a fight of it in the third before going down 6-0 6-1 7-5.

After being dealt a blow on the nose with his own racket in his second-round victory over

Fabio Fognini,