Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois are in talks for an all-British heavyweight title fight; sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n
While no deal has been agreed, it is understood there is intent from both sides to make the fight happen and talks are progressing.<\/p>\n
Both fighters are promoted by Frank Warren and Queensberry, meaning there should be fewer barriers to make the bout.<\/p>\n
WBO title holder Wardley (20-0-1, 19KOs) was elevated to full champion in November after Oleksandr Usyk vacated the title.<\/p>\n
An all-British heavyweight title fight is in the works.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n
That followed a Round 11 knockout victory over New Zealander Joseph Parker in London in October.<\/p>\n
Dubois (22-3, 21KOs) has not fought since a Round 5 knockout defeat to Oleksandr Usyk last July but wants the fight and called out Wardley on social media on Saturday, telling him to “sign the contract.”<\/p>\n
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Wardley’s manager Michael Ofo told Sky Sports: “As for Daniel Dubois, clearly that’s a fight that Fabio would be well up for. There’s nothing like an all-British showdown for the world heavyweight title!”<\/p>\n
Wardley was made mandatory challenger to fight Usyk following his win over Parker, but Usyk opted to vacate the WBO title and was in talks to fight Deontay Wilder.<\/p>\n
Sources told ESPN those talks were progressing but fell through.<\/p>\n
Wilder will now fight Derek Chisora in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois are in talks for an all-British heavyweight title fight; sources have told ESPN.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-464728","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\/464728","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=464728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}