Undefeated junior welterweight Dalton Smith, currently the WBC mandatory contender. returns against Mathieu Germain at the Canon Medical Arena in Sheffield, England on Saturday April 19th, live on DAZN. Fighting in his hometown, the newly-crowned European champion Smith (17-0, 13 KOs) looks to keep the momentum building as he works towards career-defining fights in the 140-pound division when he faces Canada’s Germain (26-2-1, 11 KOs) at the top of a card also featuring Matchroom’s latest signing Josh Padley (15-1, 4 KOs). Smith kicked off the year in style by wiping out Frenchman Walid Ouizza in one round at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena to claim the vacant EBU title in January, and the 28-year-old is now the mandatory challenger for the WBC title currently owned by the Dominican Republic’s Alberto Puello.

 

The lightweight Padley recently put pen to paper on a multi-fight promotional deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing following his valiant display against WBC featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson on the blockbuster Beterbiev vs. Bivol II undercard in Saudi Arabia. The 29-year-old Yorkshireman stepped in to face pound-for-pound star Stevenson at just four days’ notice and has since quit his day job as an electrician to fully focus on his boxing career, promising a big performance on his Matchroom debut next month.

 

Elsewhere on the card, former IBF Featherweight champion Josh Warrington (34-4-1, 8 KOs) returns to action, Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) and Ryan Kelly (19-5-1, 8 KOs) meet in an eliminator for the British junior middleweight title, Aldershot junior lightweight Giorgio Visioli (6-0, 5 KOs) takes on Birmingham’s Kane Baker (19-11-2, 1 KO), Newham super middleweight Leli Buttigieg (7-0, 1 KO) fights for the second time this year and Dave Allen-managed Wigan junior welterweight Joe Howarth (11-1, 4 KOs) fights for the first time in 2025.