Daniel Dubois, Fabio Wardley and an unmissable boxing weekend: 5 things to watch

If heavyweight knockouts are your thing, Manchester is the place to be this weekend. It’s not often two punchers this destructive collide with world title stakes attached. In fact, not since Vitali Klitschko faced Herbie Hyde in 1999 have two heavyweights boasting higher knockout ratios met with a version of the heavyweight crown on the line, as Fabio Wardley puts his WBO title up against fellow knockout merchant Daniel Dubois this Saturday in an all-England showcase.

And that’s only the headline act. There’s plenty more bubbling across the sport this weekend, so let’s take a closer look at what’s on the boxing agenda. 1.

Wardley and Dubois don’t do dull fights Forget talk of Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua for now — Fabio Wardley vs. Daniel Dubois is the far more interesting heavyweight contest, despite receiving just a slither of the attention.

But that might change once the first bell rings inside the Coop Arena on Saturday night. Both Wardley and Dubois are massive hitters — both sharing a 95% knockout rate — in the most unpredictable and dangerous of divisions, and if you were to state with any confidence that you knew what was going to happen between these two men, you’d simply be lying. But one thing we can be sure about is that these two juggernauts will put on a spectacle.