{"id":403124,"date":"2026-01-10T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:58:09","slug":"dalton-smith-attempts-to-put-a-common-name-up-in-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403124\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith attempts to put a common name up in lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">As it is, the fight has barely made a ripple on this side of the Atlantic. It hardly helps, of course, that it is taking place in the US and in a different time zone, nor that it takes place on the second weekend of January, a famously barren and frugal month. But still, that is no excuse. In fact, even if the fight between Matias and Smith had been held at home \u2013 or, say, in Riyadh, our second home \u2013 it is hard to believe the reaction to it would be any different. After all, being a \u201cworld champion\u201d in Great Britain no longer means what it used to mean, back when it was harder to achieve and we all recognised the names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it is, the fight has barely made a ripple on this side of the Atlantic. It hardly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,33556,30028,55082,85,33555],"class_list":["post-403124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-dalton-smith","tag-lewis-crocker","tag-nick-ball","tag-sports","tag-subriel-matias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}