Ring reports<\/a> that Fresh Productions won the purse bid for the Matias vs. Smith fight on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, with a winning bid of $1,900,000.<\/p>\nHearn Predicts Walk in the Park<\/p>\n
This is the fight that Dalton Smith\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, of Matchroom Boxing, has been pushing for. He\u2019s very confident that Smith, 28, will be victorious. The way Hearn bangs on about Smith, it\u2019s going to be a walk in the park for him against Matias.<\/p>\n
\u201cDalton\u2019s ready for this. Matias comes forward, throws bombs, but Dalton\u2019s got the speed, the brains, and the heart to take him apart,\u201d said Hearn during a recent press conference in September 2025.<\/p>\n
Dalton Smith\u2019s last four fights<\/p>\n
Mathieu Germain: UD 12 win
\nWalid Ouizza: TKO 1
\nJose Zepeda: KO 5
\nSam Maxwell: TKO 7<\/p>\n
What Smith lacks is a proven resume of quality opposition to back up Hearn\u2019s bold words. Thus far, Dalton has beaten mainly domestic-level opposition, with a few bottom-tier contenders at 140.<\/p>\n
No one on the Sheffield-born Smith\u2019s resume screams out at you to suggest that he\u2019s going to \u201ctake him apart\u201d like Hearn brags. If it doesn\u2019t go well for Dalton, Hearn will have to shoulder the blame. He should have matched him tougher a long time ago to better prepare him for the boogeyman of the light welterweight division, Matias.<\/p>\n
Matias\u2019 Relentless Pressure Style<\/p>\n
The work rate of the Fajardo, Puerto Rico-born Subriel, 33, is going to be a problem that Smith is going to have to deal with in this fight. Matias never stops throwing punches and has an excellent engine.<\/p>\n
Matias is coming off a 12-round majority decision win over WBC 140-lb champion Alberto Puello on July 12, 2025, in Queens, New York.<\/p>\n
Puello vs. Matias punch stats<\/p>\n
Subriel Mat\u00edas: 130 landed of 673 thrown for 19%
\nAlberto Puello: 160 of 761 for 21%<\/p>\n
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Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Subriel Matias vs Dalton Smith Set for January 10 in New York as WBC Light Welterweight Title Defense<\/p>\nLast Updated on 09\/30\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBC light welterweight champion Subriel Matias (23-2, 22 KOs) makes a defense against unbeaten #1-ranked Dalton Smith (18-0,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}