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Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith will clash in a highly-anticipated rematch this weekend, following two delays to the all-British bout. Smith shocked a number of fans and pundits by stopping Eubank Jr in January, dropping his opponent twice en route to a fourth-round TKO win. Now Eubank Jr, 33, is out for revenge, as he and Smith, 35, meet at Manchester’s AO Arena for the second time. Injury issues caused Smith to delay the middleweight rematch, but it is finally here. • Get all the latest boxing betting sites’ offers Here’s all you need to know. We may earn commission from some of the links in this article, but we never allow this to influence our content. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent. When is the fight? The fight is set to take place on Saturday 2 September at the AO Arena in Manchester. The main card is expected to begin at 7pm BST (11am PT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET), with ring walks for the main event due at around 10pm BST (2pm PT, 4pm CT, 5pm ET). How can I watch it? In the UK, the event will air live on Sky Sports Box Office, at a cost of £19.95. Viewers do not need a Sky subscription to purchase the pay-per-view. In the US, ESPN+ will stream the action live. If you’re travelling abroad and want to watch the event, you might need a VPN to unblock your streaming app. Our VPN round-up is here to help: Get great deals on the best VPNs in the market. Odds Eubank Jr – 11/8 Smith – 4/6 Draw – 16/1 Via Betway. Full card (subject to change) Liam Smith vs Chris Eubank Jr (middleweight) Mark Heffron (C) vs Jack Cullen (British super-middleweight title) Adam Azim vs Aram Faniian (super-lightweight) Mikaela Mayer vs Silvia Bortot (women’s super-lightweight) Frankie Stringer vs Christian Lopez Flores (lightweight) Frazer Clarke vs David Allen (heavyweight) Florian Marku vs Dylan Moran (welterweight) Lauren Price vs TBA (women’s welterweight) Read More Liam Smith: ‘Chris Eubank Jr is a nightmare – not for me, for other people’ Oleksandr Usyk remains heavyweight champion but where does he go from here? Major controversy as Oleksandr Usyk beats Daniel Dubois after ‘low blow’ body shot Adam Azim seeks Aram Fanyan ‘demolition’ in grandfather’s memory What time does Eubank vs Smith 2 start this weekend? How to watch Eubank vs Smith 2 online and on TV this weekend

Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith are set to square off again this weekend, eight months after the latter secured a TKO win over his fellow Briton. Smith, 35, upset the betting odds by beating Eubank Jr, 33, in the fourth round in Manchester, and the pair return to the scene of that clash on Saturday, as they meet at the AO Arena once more. • Get all the latest boxing betting sites’ offers After a bitter build to the boxers’ middleweight bout in January, in which Smith dropped Eubank Jr twice, fans are expecting more fireworks this week. Here’s all you need to know. We may earn commission from some of the links in this article, but we never allow this to influence our content. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent. When is the fight? The fight is set to take place on Saturday 2 September at the AO Arena in Manchester. The main card is expected to begin at 7pm BST (11am PT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET), with ring walks for the main event due at around 10pm BST (2pm PT, 4pm CT, 5pm ET). How can I watch it? In the UK, the event will air live on Sky Sports Box Office, at a cost of £19.95. Viewers do not need a Sky subscription to purchase the pay-per-view. In the US, ESPN+ will stream the action live. If you’re travelling abroad and want to watch the event, you might need a VPN to unblock your streaming app. Our VPN round-up is here to help: Get great deals on the best VPNs in the market. Odds Eubank Jr – 11/8 Smith – 4/6 Draw – 16/1 Via Betway. Full card (subject to change) Liam Smith vs Chris Eubank Jr (middleweight) Mark Heffron (C) vs Jack Cullen (British super-middleweight title) Adam Azim vs Aram Faniian (super-lightweight) Mikaela Mayer vs Silvia Bortot (women’s super-lightweight) Frankie Stringer vs Christian Lopez Flores (lightweight) Frazer Clarke vs David Allen (heavyweight) Florian Marku vs Dylan Moran (welterweight) Lauren Price vs TBA (women’s welterweight) Read More Liam Smith: ‘Chris Eubank Jr is a nightmare – not for me, for other people’ Oleksandr Usyk remains heavyweight champion but where does he go from here? Major controversy as Oleksandr Usyk beats Daniel Dubois after ‘low blow’ body shot

Chris Eubank Jr is seeking to avenge a TKO loss to Liam Smith this weekend, as the Britons go head to head in Manchester once again. Smith dropped Eubank Jr twice in January en route to a fourth-round win at the AO Arena, which also hosts the boxers’ middleweight rematch on Saturday. Smith, 35, upset the betting odds with his victory eight months ago; can he repeat the trick, or will Eubank Jr, 33, get back on track as he aims for one last world-title run? • Get all the latest boxing betting sites’ offers Here’s all you need to know. We may earn commission from some of the links in this article, but we never allow this to influence our content. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent. When is the fight? The fight is set to take place on Saturday 2 September at the AO Arena in Manchester. The main card is expected to begin at 7pm BST (11am PT, 1pm CT, 2pm ET), with ring walks for the main event due at around 10pm BST (2pm PT, 4pm CT, 5pm ET). How can I watch it? In the UK, the event will air live on Sky Sports Box Office, at a cost of £19.95. Viewers do not need a Sky subscription to purchase the pay-per-view. In the US, ESPN+ will stream the action live. If you’re travelling abroad and want to watch the event, you might need a VPN to unblock your streaming app. Our VPN round-up is here to help: Get great deals on the best VPNs in the market. Odds Eubank Jr – 11/8 Smith – 4/6 Draw – 16/1 Via Betway. Full card (subject to change) Liam Smith vs Chris Eubank Jr (middleweight) Mark Heffron (C) vs Jack Cullen (British super-middleweight title) Adam Azim vs Aram Faniian (super-lightweight) Mikaela Mayer vs Silvia Bortot (women’s super-lightweight) Frankie Stringer vs Christian Lopez Flores (lightweight) Frazer Clarke vs David Allen (heavyweight) Florian Marku vs Dylan Moran (welterweight) Lauren Price vs TBA (women’s welterweight) Read More Liam Smith: ‘Chris Eubank Jr is a nightmare – not for me, for other people’ Oleksandr Usyk remains heavyweight champion but where does he go from here? Major controversy as Oleksandr Usyk beats Daniel Dubois after ‘low blow’ body shot Adam Azim seeks Aram Fanyan ‘demolition’ in grandfather’s memory Who is fighting on Eubank vs Smith 2 undercard this weekend? How to watch Eubank vs Smith 2 online and on TV this weekend

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Uefa will take no action on an astonishing request by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to be expelled over the Luis Rubiales crisis, as the federation president now faces an investigation from Spanish prosecutors for sexual assault. In other developments of a story that even Uefa officials were describing as “absurd” and “stranger by the moment”, Rubiales’ mother Angeles Bejar locked herself in a church to go on hunger strike, with police and doctors eventually intervening. Such details have stunned even the most experienced people in football, but it is the request to the European body that is being seen as the most significant, given it sums up how surreal the story has become. With Rubiales facing a series of official complaints and a government process that could yet see him banned from sport in Spain for two to 15 years – to go with his current 90-day suspension from Fifa – the federation sent a request to Uefa to be expelled for breaking Uefa’s own statutes on state interference. Expulsion would mean clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona kicked out of European competitions such as the Champions League. The move has been interpreted as “bluster” and “brinkmanship” by the federation in order to support Rubiales, but it would still involve all of Spain’s club and national teams being removed from competition, denying them of income and – in the words of one – “setting Spanish football back years”. The Independent has been told that Uefa will not take action and that the government’s involvement does not meet the criteria for state interference. Victor Francos, the president of Spain’s Higher Council for Sport who has become a central figure in this situation, stated on Monday that all of the relevant bodies are “acting within the regulations as they stand”. Rubiales being punished according to regulations and rules is different to the government just ousting him, which it cannot do, and has created an almost Kafkaesque circus over what remains a serious issue. Underpinning it all has been this Spanish government’s willingness to take on issues of equality and sexual harassment. On that, the Spanish Prosecutors Office will ask Jenni Hermoso if she wishes to press charges against Rubialies, after she stated that the kiss was not consensual. It was that statement which led Rubiales’ mother to go on hunger strike in a church in his home town in Montril, demanding that Hermoso “tell the truth” about the incident. There have also been public accusations from one of Rubiales’ cousins that the Spanish midfielder changed her story – something that did not happen. All of this comes amid Fifa’s directive that Rubiales not contact Hermoso or her family, to go with the 90-day suspension. Spain's Administrative Court for Sports has meanwhile been meeting all Monday to examine four complaints against Rubiales. Should it decide to open proceedings, it could mean the official is suspended for even longer than Fifa's 90-day provisional punishment. In that event, the Spanish government has confirmed it would take action. “If the court upholds the complaint and begins to process that case, we can request the provisional suspension of the president of the RFEF until TAD finishes analysing it and takes their decision,” Sports Minister Miquel Iceta said on Friday. Also on Monday morning, Spanish player’s union Futpro – representing Jenni Hermoso – further clarified Hermoso’s stance while describing a “structural problem” in the Spanish federation. “Those who applauded Rubiales, [at the assembly] in my opinion, should not continue in their positions.” While Rubiales’ position as vice-president of Uefa has itself led to criticism of the European body for a lack of comment, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has been in constant contact with Fifa. The position is that since the events fall under the disciplinary jurisdiction of Fifa – because the World Cup was a Fifa event – it was agreed that Fifa’s disciplinary bodies would handle the case, something Uefa does not feel it should comment on. The global football representative body FifPro is meanwhile yet to receive an official response from Uefa to a letter sent on Friday requesting disciplinary action against Rubiales. Read More Luis Rubiales’ mother locks herself in church and goes on hunger strike Luis Rubiales news LIVE: Police investigate president for alleged sexual assault Spanish FA launch ‘sexual violence protocol’ against Rubiales ahead of urgent meeting Spanish football’s ‘MeToo moment’ is a mirror for the entire game Spain coaching team quits over Luis Rubiales row – but manager backs president Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales and coaching staff walk out over World Cup kiss row

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