Liam Smith says he is “open to anything” after <\/span>stopping Chris Eubank Jr in round four<\/span><\/a> of their middleweight contest in Manchester on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n Eubank has a rematch clause but Smith said former welterweight world champion Kell Brook, or middleweight great Gennady Golovkin were also options.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Brook, 36, retired after beating Amir Khan in 2022, but Smith’s promoter suggested that the fight could be made.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’ve got good options, I’m in a good position,” said 34-year-old Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n “If [Eubank] wants that rematch, I’ll give it to him. I’m open to anything, I always have been. If it’s Chris next, it’s Chris next.<\/span><\/p>\n “Ben Shalom (from Smith’s promoter Boxxer) said Kell wants to fight the winner. That’s a huge fight. There’s talk of Golovkin. We’re in a good position.”<\/span><\/p>\n Fellow Briton Brook, 36, won the IBF world title in the lighter welterweight division during his career but announced his retirement in May 2022, three months after beating Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n Kazakh fighter Golovkin has won multiple world titles at middleweight, with the only two defeats in his 45-fight career coming against Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, who is regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Shalom said it was up to 33-year-old Eubank if he wanted to activate the rematch clause.<\/span><\/p>\n Eubank suggested on social media after the fight he would do that, but Smith insisted he would want the second fight to be in his home city.<\/span><\/p>\n “This has to be right for me now, on my terms,” he said. “[I want it in] Liverpool. The money side to it [has to change].”<\/span><\/p>\n Smith has stopped his past four opponents and moved up to middleweight to fight Eubank.<\/span><\/p>\n The intriguing fight threatened to be overshadowed by an <\/span>ugly build-up<\/span><\/a> in fight week, where Eubank suffered taunts about his sexuality from Smith but responded with jibes of his own about social class and personal attacks on Smith about infidelity.<\/span><\/p>\n Eubank apologised, admitting he “regretted” what he had said.<\/span><\/p>\n Smith briefly addressed the controversy in his post-fight news conference.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/onesport\/cps\/624\/cpsprodpb\/14F57\/production\/_128374858_gettyimages-1458325753.jpg\")
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