{"id":944662,"date":"2026-10-24T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944662\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:58:09","slug":"smith-vs-puello-fight-predictions-from-boxing-world-including-chantelle-cameron-tony-bellew-paulie-malignaggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944662\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith vs Puello: Fight predictions from boxing world including Chantelle Cameron, Tony Bellew &#038; Paulie Malignaggi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dalton Smith will make the first defence of his WBC light-welterweight title on home soil when he faces former champion Alberto Puello in Sheffield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unbeaten Smith, 29, returns to the ring for the first time since becoming world champion with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cly5w9ne426o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a stunning knockout of Subriel Matias in New York<\/a> in January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dominican Republic fighter Puello, 32, is aiming to become a three-time world champion, having lost his WBC belt to Matias on points last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith will have the backing of his home crowd at the Utilita Arena. Can he keep his dream of fighting at Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s Hillsborough stadium alive with another win? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Or will the tricky and experienced southpaw Puello, who has lost just once in 26 professional fights, ruin the homecoming?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport spoke to figures from across the boxing world to get their predictions on who will come out on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith will make the first defence of his WBC light-welterweight title on home soil when he faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-944662","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\/944662","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=944662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}