Comments Thread For: The Beltline: Dalton Smith attempts to put a common name up in lights

[BoxingUpdates]

A British boxer fighting for a major world title in New York doesn't mean what it used to mean, writes Elliot Worsell.
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[BlackRobb]

Matias is flawed, limited and overrated.

[Corelone]

yeah, but Dalton only has one faded name on his resume. I'm pulling for him, but I don't know what Eddy has up his sleeve. This has a fatalistic feel about it. Unlike Buatsi before or Boots now, the dole ends here. I don't think Eddy feels that Smith is worth milking. No email titles, no 13 fight champions, no hometown advantage. Eddy doesn't have that type of confidence

[jjscruff]

Fabio Wardley is a 3rd british world champion. was he forgotten too? if not its not fair to talk about how easy it is to win belts now, while still ignoring those who won them easily

[SteveM]

Elliott Worsell has little clue. How many champions a country has and how well boxing is doing in a country can be correlative but are not co-dependent. If that was the case somebody like Wardley (pre- champion) wouldn't be fighting at Portman Road. Nor Crocker drawing huge crowds in Belfast.
He drones on about Mattias in New York. Rumours are it'd only sold 2000 tickets earlier this week. If Hearn had won the purse bid and put it in Sheffield do we really want to believe that it wouldn't have drawn multiple thousands more than that?

[SteveM]

yeah, but Dalton only has one faded name on his resume. I'm pulling for him, but I don't know what Eddy has up his sleeve. This has a fatalistic feel about it. Unlike Buatsi before or Boots now, the dole ends here. I don't think Eddy feels that Smith is worth milking. No email titles, no 13 fight champions, no hometown advantage. Eddy doesn't have that type of confidence

He had enough confidence to bid 1.7 million for the fight which realistically should have been enough to win the bid. But he was outbid by Fresh Promotions who look like they about to loose their a55 on this fight. First they had the idea to stage it in Puerto Rico but then realised they couldn't turn a profit doing that. Then they moved it to New York figuring the Puerto Rican community would bale them out - but as of earlier this week you could go on the Barclay Bldg website to buy a ticket and most of the seats are unsold - it's estimated only 2,000 seats are sold. Then on top of that they're asking $51 for PPV when Matias is not a PPV fighter and a similar amount in the UK where neither Smith nor Matias are well known. I hope the fighters get fully paid.

[SteveM]

Fabio Wardley is a 3rd british world champion. was he forgotten too? if not its not fair to talk about how easy it is to win belts now, while still ignoring those who won them easily

Elliot Worsell has established himself as a casual boxing writer.

[1Eriugenus]

A phenomenally silly comment even by Worsell’s standards, ‘there are scores of Smiths up and down the country’ . No, there are scores of Cholmondely-Smythes. There are probably over a million Smiths. There are certainly well over a million ppeople people in Britain who know more about boxing than Worsell.

[Corelone]

Eddy lost a bid? Say it ain't so. That's not the flex you think it is. This has a cut rate feel about it. A used car lot clearance event.

[1Eriugenus]

Daalton should be able to do what Paro did and out jab and outbox Subriel. But Dalton has very little experience at this level. I just don’t think he is ready for a man as strong as scary as reaL as Subriiel