Dalton Smith shares his reaction to beating Subriel Matias to become world champion.
Fresh off of his big stoppage win over Subriel Matias to become a WBC world champion, Dalton Smith joins talkSPORT to discuss his reaction to the fight and validating himself as champion after overcoming all the odds over his career. Here’s some of what he had to say below.
Smith on his knockout win
“Obviously, it’s not a shock to me because I always believed I’d be able to do it. But apart from a little bit of jet lag and tiredness, I feel good…After the first round I proved I can box his head off. And then in the second round he was on it, he came. And the thing with Subriel is if you keep letting him push you back, he gets momentum. And to be honest, he hit me with his best shots and as the rounds went on I lost more respect for his power.
“I mean, as entertaining as it was for everyone else, I was losing respect and I knew every time he threw, I had an answer for and I was hurting him. As the rounds went on I felt him getting weaker and he was getting tired and I thought your nickname is ‘no mas-tias’ and I’m going to do to you what you said you was going to do to me. So I just thought stick on his chest and I’ll get to him.”
On having extra motivation to win this fight
“I lost respect for him because I think you’ve come in here to cheat. And like I said, especially in boxing PEDs are probably the worst sport to be allowed in — well, not allowed in but allowed to happen.”
On becoming a world champion and how he’d describe his journey
“I have no clue. Like, somehow we’re here [chuckles]. I don’t know, I have no words for it yet.”
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