Daniel Dubois... 4.0? Inside the latest comeback from an unpredictable star
WARDLEY VS DUBOIS: Before Dubois’s mouthwatering title fight with Fabio Wardley, Alex Pattle speaks to the still-young heavyweight, his promoter, his performance analyst, and former champion David Haye
Daniel Dubois is on the comeback trail once again. It’s a trail he could probably walk blindfolded by now, his size-13 boots filling the mud imprints from his last march along this track. Three times “Dynamite” Daniel has been defeated, and when adversity strikes, all roads lead back to this path.
It cannot be circumnavigated. And in the wake of a second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, the trail leads to the outskirts of Manchester, to the Co-op Live, to Fabio Wardley . If the Dubois who crafted a win streak after his first loss, a TKO by Joe Joyce, was Dubois 2.
0, then the heavyweight who did the same after a 2023 KO by Usyk was Dubois 3. 0. Saturday may bring version 4.
0, then, as the 28-year-old bids to bounce back from his second stoppage by Usyk . Daniel Dubois over the years (Getty Images) After each of the Briton’s defeats, the question of heart has arisen; when Dubois is forced to swim in deep waters, can he rise back to the surface, or does he simply sink further. This was asked in 2020, when he took a knee against Joyce (although a broken orbital bone seemed a fair excuse); it was asked when Usyk stopped him with a jab three years ago; and it was asked when he was floored twice by the Ukrainian last summer.
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