{"id":556060,"date":"2026-04-29T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:35:15","slug":"dalton-smith-injury-galal-yafai-to-top-sheffield-bill-after-smith-title-defence-cancelled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556060\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith injury: Galal Yafai to top Sheffield bill after Smith title defence cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s WBC light-welterweight champion Dalton Smith has been ruled out of his fight with Alberto Puello through injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c75kl5pknzlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to make his first title defence<\/a> against the former two-time world champion in his hometown of Sheffield on 6 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the unbeaten 29-year-old, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cly5w9ne426o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Subriel Matias to become world champion<\/a> in January, has picked up a problem during training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galal Yafai&#8217;s unification fight with Ricardo Sandoval has now been promoted to the top of the bill at the Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandoval holds the WBA and WBC flyweight titles while 33-year-old Briton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g0j2g8g99o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yafai is the interim WBC champion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere on the card, Josh Padley will defend his European super-featherweight title against domestic rival Aqib Fiaz, while Ibraheem Sulaimaan faces Ibrahim Nadim for the English super-featherweight belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teenage heavyweight Leo Atang will fight in his native Yorkshire while fellow unbeaten youngsters Adam Maca and Connor Mitchell will also be in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s WBC light-welterweight champion Dalton Smith has been ruled out of his fight with Alberto Puello through injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556060","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=556060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}