Frank Warren on what people misunderstand about his boxers fighting each other

Frank Warren has opened up on what people often misunderstand about his boxers fighting each other, as Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley prepare to square off in May. Dubois and Wardley are both signed to Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, and they will clash over Wardley’s WBO heavyweight title on 9 May, at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena. It’s there that one of Warren’s other British heavyweights, Moses Itauma , headlines against American Jermaine Franklin on Saturday , too.

Victory for Itauma could even see him paired with the winner of Wardley vs Dubois later this year. Frank Warren (centre) oversees a face-off between Fabio Wardley (left) and Daniel Dubois (Getty) With Queensberry having built such a strong heavyweight stable in recent years, these kinds of match-ups felt inevitable, but do they present Warren with any awkwardness? “I think everybody wins, to be quite honest,” Warren countered, speaking to The Independent over Zoom.

“There are fights that haven’t happened because of politics [... ] the fact that we’ve got quite a strong presence in the division [means] we are making the fights happen. “And it’s not the end of the world if somebody gets beaten.

Moses went and fought Dillian [Whyte], we made the fight. We’re making them happen. “You look at Derek Chisora.