{"id":14777,"date":"2025-07-23T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14777\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:21:09","slug":"daniel-dubois-internal-inquest-over-party-before-ko-loss-to-oleksandr-usyk-video-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14777\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois ‘internal inquest’ over ‘party’ before KO loss to Oleksandr Usyk, video emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

An “internal inquest” will be held by Daniel Dubois’ team after a video emerged showing a reported “gathering” at his house just hours before his KO loss to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s understood Dubois’ promoters will hold a meeting with the former IBF champion amid claims he arrived less than two hours before his ring walk at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n

In the footage, with as many as 70 people reportedly in attendance, partygoers could be heard shouting, ‘and the new’, in anticipation of Dubois beating Usyk to become the new undisputed world heavyweight champion later that day..<\/p>\n

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Dubois was stopped in the fifth round, losing his IBF title as Usyk, 38, became a two-time undisputed heavyweight world champion.<\/p>\n

Dubois’ trainer, Don Charles, confirmed a “gathering” had taken place before the fight, when asked if a party had been held before the biggest bout of the English fighter’s career.<\/p>\n

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Michael Griffin counts down Daniel Dubois after being knocked down by Oleksandr Usyk.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I would like to change the word from party to gathering,” Charles told BBC, before confirming promoter Frank Warren and his son George will hold talks with Dubois’ team.<\/p>\n

Charles said it’s “not unusual” to hold a gathering before a fight, citing a similar situation in Dubois’ shock victory over Anthony Joshua in September, when he knocked out the former champion in the ninth round.<\/p>\n

“This gathering is the same gathering which was used for the AJ fight day preparation,” he said.<\/p>\n

“A lot was made of Daniel’s ring walk for that fight – how enthusiastic and confident he looked – and people were praising him.”<\/p>\n

There are suggestions in the UK press the party was organised by the fighter’s father and that Dubois even left the event to go for a drive, with the implication that he was not happy.<\/p>\n

“To put logic to it, the father mainly replicated the recipe that worked against AJ to hopefully get a victory last Saturday. And it didn’t work. Consequently, there is now a big highlight on this party, which was a gathering,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Dubois was dropped twice in the fifth round after the party.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“Daniel went for a drive, like you do. He’s a fighter who’s fighting on that day. If he wanted to get some fresh air or whatever, it’s not unusual to say ‘I’m going for a drive.'”<\/p>\n

Dubois’ trainer denied knowledge that members of Dubois’ entourage were responsible for him being late, saying there was enough time for the fighter to prepare.<\/p>\n

“I had 90 minutes to prepare him – the duration of a football game – and I was satisfied,” he said. “I didn’t see a fighter unsettled. He seemed the Daniel Dubois that I knew, who I see every day in the gym.”<\/p>\n

Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) joined British countrymen Fury and Joshua in having lost twice to Usyk, who was an undisputed world champion as a cruiserweight before he moved up in weight six years ago.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Dubois’ last fight \u2014 also at Wembley \u2014 had been a stunning knockout of Joshua last September.<\/p>\n

He couldn’t muster the same magic, telling DAZN: “I gave everything I had. Take no credit away from that man, I’ll be back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An “internal inquest” will be held by Daniel Dubois’ team after a video emerged showing a reported “gathering”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-14777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}