{"id":185528,"date":"2025-10-02T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185528\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:50:09","slug":"dateline-subriel-matias-vs-dalton-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185528\/","title":{"rendered":"Dateline Subriel Mat\u00edas vs Dalton Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dateline Subriel Mat\u00edas vs Dalton Smith<\/p>\n<p>WBC super lightweight world champion Subriel Mat\u00edas will defend his title against Britain\u2019s Dalton Smith on January 10 in New York, at a venue still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Mat\u00edas (23-2, 22 KOs) captured the Green and Gold Belt on July 12, 2025, when he defeated Dominican Alberto Puello by majority decision in Queens. It was the first time in his career that the Puerto Rican secured a victory on the scorecards to become champion.<\/p>\n<p>Smith (18-0, 13 KOs), on the other hand, arrives undefeated and with a rapid rise in the division. The Englishman claimed the WBC Silver super lightweight title in 2024 by knocking out Jos\u00e9 Zepeda, and in 2025 he consolidated it with a successful defense while also adding international experience.<\/p>\n<p>The fight will mark Mat\u00edas\u2019 first defense of the world championship, as he faces one of the most promising talents in British boxing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_165191\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"165191\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dateline Subriel Mat\u00edas vs Dalton Smith WBC super lightweight world champion Subriel Mat\u00edas will defend his title against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-185528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}