{"id":478025,"date":"2026-02-13T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:15:15","slug":"duke-mckenzie-predicts-fabio-wardley-vs-daniel-dubois-he-aint-beating-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478025\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke McKenzie Predicts Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois: “He Ain’t Beating Him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A huge fight between Fabio Wardley<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a> is reportedly in the works and former world champion Duke McKenzie has already predicted how it might go.<\/p>\n

Wardley would be making the first defence of his WBO title if this fight gets made<\/a>. He was elevated to full champion last year after stopping Joseph Parker, just months after also stopping Justis Huni.<\/p>\n

Dubois, meanwhile, last fought back in August when he got knocked out for the second time by the former two time undisputed heavyweight great, Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

It will be a tough first fight back for Dubois, who is now also back with his old coach Don Charles after a brief split.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Bro Boxing Fans and DukeBox<\/a>, McKenzie can\u2019t see past a win for Wardley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Daniel Dubois, but just because I like him doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t give an unbiased professional opinion, cause in my opinion, he ain\u2019t gonna beat Wardley.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to put some respect on Fabio Wardley\u2019s name. To call out Fabio, this isn\u2019t a warm up fight, you don\u2019t call Fabio out as a warm up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a world title. They need to put some respect on his name. He\u2019s a world champion in his own right. He\u2019s 5% better now than when he won the title \u2019cause that\u2019s what he gives you.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just beaten Joseph Parker and messed him up. It wasn\u2019t an easy fight, it ebbed and flowed, but ultimately Wardley got the job done, that\u2019s what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight is likely to take place on May 9 at a venue in the UK that is yet to be confirmed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge fight between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois is reportedly in the works and former world champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-478025","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\/478025","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=478025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}