{"id":498452,"date":"2026-03-27T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:22","slug":"dalton-smith-vs-alberto-puello-fight-date-and-location-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498452\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith vs Alberto Puello: Fight date and location set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dalton Smith will make his first defense of the WBC super lightweight title on Saturday, June 6, facing former titlist Alberto Puello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith will have home field advantage for the fight, which will be hosted by Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 29-year-old Smith (19-0, 14 KO) claimed the belt on January 10 in Brooklyn, stopping Subriel Matias in the fifth round. Matias had beaten Puello (24-1, 10 KO) for the title by majority decision last July, and the 31-year-old Dominican southpaw was awaiting the winner of that fight for an ordered rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matias was a good win for Smith, obviously, and Puello is another stern test, and a much different one stylistically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matchroom have not yet announced any undercard bouts for the show, which isn\u2019t unusual given that it\u2019s two-and-a-half months away, but it\u2019s a good main event and a good world title fight between a champion whose star is on the rise and the sort of veteran challenger who is plenty capable of ending his first reign quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who do you like in this matchup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith will make his first defense of the WBC super lightweight title on Saturday, June 6, facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-498452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498452","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=498452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}