Although Dalton Smith is out of his bill-topping fight with Jon Fernandez in Sheffield on September 28, promoter Matchroom Boxing is trying to make sure the show goes on. Smith, a junior ...

Dalton Smith may have to move on from his long-planned EBU title fight with Jon Fernandez but the undefeated junior welterweight is determined to remain positive. The vacant title fight with ...

Smith is one of the younger generation forcing the older guard out. “You could say that,” he admits. “As they say boxing is a young man’s sport, I don’t think it’ll ever change.

Although Dalton Smith is out of his bill-topping fight with Jon Fernandez in Sheffield on September 28, promoter Matchroom Boxing is trying to make sure the show goes on.

That aspiration went on ice because of the neck issue that had been bothering him previously. His fight with Spaniard Jon Fernandez, planned for Sheffield Arena on September 28, had to be delayed.

Johnny Fisher will fight Ukraine’s Andrii Rudenko on September 28, on the undercard of Dalton Smith’s European junior-welterweight title fight with Jon Fernandez.