2026-02-14 10:31:38
Dalton Smith has hailed his WBC title win a “surreal” moment.
The 28-year-old Yorkshireman took the WBC super-lightweight title with a fifth-round knock-out win over Subriel Matias in New York last month and he was thrilled to finally achieve something he’s worked towards for decades.
He told Boxing News magazine: “I’d worked for it since I was a young kid but to finally achieve it is a bit of a ‘pinch me’ moment.
“I always said I’d do it, but to be in that moment, to be crowned champion, it’s surreal, a feeling I’ve never felt before.”
But Dalton admitted he didn’t expect to claim victory so early in the fight.
He said: “It went according to plan.
“Matias comes with relentless pressure. I should have boxed for a few rounds.
“But we knew we was going to get into hard parts of the fight, we were going to meet him head-on sooner or later, and I felt comfortable in there to deal with what was in front of us.
“I was confident to stop him late on; I wasn’t expecting it to be as early as that.
“But I was just prepared for anything he was gonna throw at us.”
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