Boxing
Hearn sees a different Dalton Smith after Matias
From the start, Smith repeatedly tied up Matias, disrupting the rhythm and stopping rallies briefly before they could build up play. He landed, stepped in and clinched. Again and again. This was the same approach that had previously troubled Matias, and once again Matias had difficulty adapting. Once he was free, Matias landed difficult and immaculate, cracking Smith’s head and reminding everyone why he built his reputation. These moments were real. They were also brief.
Hearn praised Smith for deciding that distance boxing wouldn’t work and opting for a trade instead. This explanation does not entirely correspond to what happened. Smith traded places, but never stayed long. The plan was elementary and effective. Hit. To hold. Set. To repeat.
“Nobody did that to Matias,” Hearn said later, enjoying both the knockdown and the finish. This part is fair. Matias was never able to stop him, and that night Smith took something from him. Hearn’s leap brings with it greater ambitions.
“You’re talking about Darren Barker against Daniel Geale, Kell Brook against Shawn Porter, honestly it beats everything – it’s the biggest away win I’ve ever seen,” he said Hearn. “Dalton is a hero. You have to box with Matias, you saw it with Liam Paro, but Matias was on the show tonight, he was red sizzling and he wouldn’t let Dalton box.
“So Dalton decided to fight Matias on his home turf, which is the worst idea you could have – he was never hurt, he was never depressed – and he beat him, knocked him down in Recent York to become Britain’s newest world champion. The kid is a hero and there’s a fresh superstar in boxing, and his name is Dalton Smith.
Calling Smith a superstar based on one controlled but lopsided title fight reflects the promoter’s confidence that he will get the job done. Smith has shown that he can execute a hard plan under pressure. He also showed that his advantage over elite pressure players increases when there is no clinch to snail-paced the game down.
Hearn’s enthusiasm is understandable. His athlete won the world title in hostile conditions.
“We knew Dalton was a star, but to do it on a world stage in Recent York and in that style. People were talking about this fight and that fight, Adam Azim and all that. Dalton Smith went out and accepted the bogeyman, met him in Recent York and stopped Subriel Matias from becoming world champion – show some respect to his name.”
The performance itself looked more like a precise response to a specific opponent, and Smith’s next assignment will speak volumes more than any post-fight praise.
Boxing
Mauricio Sulaiman claims that Crawford knew in advance that he would have to pay $300,000. dollars fee for WBC
Mauricio Sulaiman says Terence Crawford was aware of the WBC’s reported $300,000 penalty charge long before his undisputed fight against Canelo Alvarez last September, providing a different version of the recent dispute over the champion’s title costs
The WBC president addressed the issue during a recent interview after Crawford publicly questioned why the organization would not honor terms that he believed had been accepted by other sanctioning bodies. Sulaiman said the amount had already been communicated in advance and was not a surprise once the fight was finalized.
“He knew well in advance what the WBC estimated for this particular fight and it was supposedly 300,000. That was the upper limit,” Ring Champs said of Crawford before his fight with Canelo.
Sulaiman added that this amount is lower than the percentage the organization says it can collect under its regulations. He said the WBC capped the fee rather than applying the full rate.
The dispute became a topic of discussion after Crawford publicly responded to previous comments related to the sanctions process. Sulaiman avoided escalating the exchange, saying he did not want to personally criticize Crawford.
“I’m not going to talk bad about Crawford,” Sulaiman said.
He also said that fighters and promoters receive contracts and terms before title fights are approved, describing the process as standard practice and not something created for a single event.
“There are contracts. When you as a promoter give in and get sanctioned, there are rules,” Sulaiman said.
When a player earns tens of millions, the standard 3% suddenly becomes sedate money, and that’s when the backlash usually begins.
The comments highlight a long-standing problem in boxing, where sanction fees are often accepted during negotiations but become controversial when vast funds are involved. Huge fights usually reveal how much power the belts still carry.
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