{"id":40400,"date":"2026-03-25T03:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dalton-smith-v-alberto-puello-briton-to-defend-world-title-in-sheffield-homecoming\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:43:28","slug":"dalton-smith-v-alberto-puello-briton-to-defend-world-title-in-sheffield-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dalton-smith-v-alberto-puello-briton-to-defend-world-title-in-sheffield-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Smith v Alberto Puello: Briton to defend world title in Sheffield homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britain&#8217;s WBC light-welterweight champion Dalton Smith will make the first defence of his title in front of his home fans in Sheffield on 6 June.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unbeaten Smith, 29, will face two-time former world champion Alberto Puello from Dominican at Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith won the world title in his 19th professional fight with a stunning fifth-round stoppage victory over Subriel Matias in Brooklyn in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;New York was a trip of a lifetime, but now it&#8217;s about bringing big world title fights to Sheffield,&#8221; said Smith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c75kl5pknzlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s WBC light-welterweight champion Dalton Smith will make the first defence of his title in front of his home fans in Sheffield on 6 June. The unbeaten Smith, 29, will face two-time former world champion Alberto Puello from Dominican at Utilita Arena. Smith won the world title in his 19th professional fight with a stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40402,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40400\/revisions\/40402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}