Subriel Matias v Dalton Smith

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Matias is nothing special. He's whistling in a graveyard as I (and many ppl) thought he lost his last fight to Puello when he won the WBC belt. High volume pressure fighters never age well. He has decent power, but not KO power. He's a volume guy with slow feet, a stiff upper-body and almost no head movement.

The blue print is out on how to beat him. Lots of movement. Paro really exposed that. Can Dalton Smith replicate that ?

The problem Dalton has is that he's a very patient counter puncher who I think waits too long for his opponent to lunge in and make a mistake and that may work against him in the USA and he may give away the early rounds as that running around the ring not throwing anything is gonna work against him with the judges. So when Smith punches, he has to punch with dynamism and at times even bang it out with Mathias and push him bk.

But the bottom line is Smith doesnt have to be an exceptional fighter to win this. He just has to be a good (with a small g) solid world level fighter and that'll get the job done and we don't know how good he is. But to me ? Smith doesn't pass my eye test but neither did Bernard Hopkins. So we'll see.

Verdict ? Matias overwhelms Smith. Coz that's what he is, He's the kinda fighter that can overwhelm you if you're not good enough. A bit like David Aveyesean. So I see Mathias having too much "dog" in him, forcing smith to fight at a pace he doesn't like, forcing smith to bang it out with him when Smith wants clean mid distance Olympic style fight and Mathias will force Smith to quit or KO him but I could be wrong

By the way, it's a good fight but it's NOT a PPV fight. The hell are DAZN doing ?