Dalton Smith has made many sacrifices since she became a boxer.
It includes nights with friends and holidays abroad and rid all other young people in his city, which Sheffield considers traffic rituals in their transfer from young people to adulthood.
But it can be said that the greatest privilege for all of them was very personal. In fact, before explaining the central match on Saturday against Matteo Germain, the 27 -year -old reveals that it involves his own sense and a link with his father and coach, Grant.
“Boxing is a sport that takes care of your identity completely,” says Smith.
“Everyone will not be able to tell you only who are really when their career ends.
“I am talking about the person, not the fighter.
“You cannot really know who you are as a person, and what you are, until you give up everything and decide to do something else.
“At the present time, all I know about me is what I love as a fighter. To be honest, this is the only thing that I need to know at this stage of my life.”
Smith, who has already claimed that the British, Commonwealth and the European, are facing a visitor from Canada in the Canon Medical Circuit in Sheffield this week.
The place is a short distance from the gym, where, under the watchful eye, Smith chose to give up another aspect of his life in order to follow the greatness.
“My father will not have my father until the day I retired,” he confesses. “We cannot get the type of relationship that we like to have until I stop fighting.
“We cannot look at ourselves as a father and a son. We have to see ourselves as an angel and a coach because I am a fighter, I am a warrior, and I have to prepare to go to war. We cannot get the attachments that we would like to stop until I stop.
“It is not easy. It is actually far from easy, but I will not get it in any other way because being a fighter gave me a kind of opportunities that I could not get in another profession.”
