Frank Smith Backs Odel Kamara To Reach Top

Menu Results Schedule Rankings Videos Tickets Forum Contact Us Menu Rankings Schedule Results Boxing Live Frank Smith Backs Odel Kamara To Reach Top Google News Preferred Source By Boxing News 24 Desk - 10/05/2026 - Comments Frank Smith believes Odel Kamara can reach the top of boxing, but the 22-year-old’s debut against Thodoris Ritzakis offered reasons to question that projection. His punching technique and apparent physical limitations make the leading fighters at 154 look a long way beyond him.

“He can go to the very top of the sport,” Smith told talkSPORT. “He’s just 22 years old. And I think what we’re seeing now is a lot of fighters turning over a lot younger in their careers, not staying in the amateurs for too long. And I think that happened too often, maybe over the last sort of 10, 15 years or so.”

Kamara halted Ritzakis on Saturday night, but his habit of loading up from the bleachers creates massive defensive red flags. He threw his entire upper body into every delivery to manufacture power, lunging forward with wide arcs. That reckless aggression from Kamara overwhelmed the novice, Ritzakis, but a skilled counterpuncher would simply time the looping shots, slip inside, and tag his exposed chin before his feet ever reset.