Saturday, October 24th
Dalton Smith vs Alberto Puello (DAZN, 2:00 pm ET)
BLH will have live results and updates
From Sheffield, England, for Smith’s WBC super lightweight title. Smith won that title his last time in action, knocking out Subriel Matias in the 5th round of their January tilt. Matias won the belt in his previous fight against Puello, a majority decision result in July of 2025.
Will Smith be the first to successfully defend this belt since Regis Prograis in the summer of 2023? Or will Puello emerge triumphant, reclaiming the title and continuing the WBC 140 lbs. White Elephant belt exchange game?
It’s a good matchup, and I’m eager to find out!
ON THE UNDERCARD: Maxi Hughes fights for a lesser WBC lightweight doodad against Giorgio Visioli, recently announced as Nominative Determinism Magazine’s 2026: “Most Likely Boxer to Spend His Free Time Seducing American Tourists on an Eat Pray Love Adventure in Venice.” The honor comes with a free Vespa and a lifetime supply of candles in Chianti bottles. Tough break for Guido Vianello, who’d held that title for as far back as I can remember. Also on the undercard, Shannon Ryan defends the British and Commonwealth super flyweight belts against Emma Dolan. Additional prelims stream available on DAZN starting at 12:00 pm ET.
Emanuel Navarrete vs O’Shaquie Foster (DAZN, 9:00 pm ET)
BLH will have live results and updates
From San Antonio, Texas, to unify Navarrete’s WBO and IBF and Foster’s WBC super featherweight titles. Fantastic fight here, with the unconventional and powerful Navarrete and the quick, shrewd, Foster providing the sort of stylistic debate I change my mind on every time I try to predict a winner.
Navarrete is a crowd pleaser, with a fighting style that produces knockouts far more often than not, but seldom without putting himself in jeopardy along the way. His only official loss in 14 years, with a brief aside to acknowledge some referee and judging controversy along the way, came by split decision to Denys Berinchyk in Navarrete’s only pro tilt as a lightweight. That fight featured lots of joking references on commentary to Twinkie consumption, after which Navarrete found the discipline to get and stay back down at 130 lbs., where he’s now a unified champion.
Foster is a savvy, strategic guy who will always find his edge whether he’s slugging with the likes of Rocky Hernandez (and knocking him out) or outworking a former P4P guy like Stephen Foster. This is one of the five best unification fights available in boxing right now (for anyone wondering, I put it up there with Opetaia-Benavidez, even though that’s more of a half-unification, Benavidez-Bivol, another semi-unification in Ennis-Ortiz, and Lopez-Garcia). Definitely worth your time and attention.
ON THE UNDERCARD: Chief support here is Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez against Edward Vazquez. Gonzalez is 24 years old, 18-0 (11 KO), and he will absolutely have to earn his way past Vazquez, who is my favorite working class fighter in boxing today. The only fight I’m sure I’ve ever seen Vazquez lose was his knockout to Rafael Espinoza, and I’d put him 1-0-1 at worst against Ray Ford and Joe Cordina, even though the official results have him 0-2 there. Vazquez has one of the keenest tactical minds in the sport, and Gonzalez will need to prove he’s world class to get past him. Also, Steven Navarro vs Emanuel Moreno at bantamweight.
Sunday, October 25th
DAZN, 1:00 pm ET Top Tier Boxing
From London, England. DAZN are spotlighting the women’s lightweight matchup between Shauna Browne and Jade Burden as the main event. But, that feels disrespectful to not one, but TWO vacant junior varsity IBO title fights! Archie Sharp vs Ross Driscoll will decide the owner of the Continental lightweight belt, while Tiago Muxanga and Muzamiru Kakande will square off for the European super welterweight title. Why are a guy from Mozambique (Muxanga) and a guy from Uganda (Kakande) fighting for the European belt? Don’t ask me! I’m not the computer that does the IBO’s rankings!
