{"id":481417,"date":"2026-02-15T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:08","slug":"dave-allen-says-wardley-vs-dubois-ends-via-ko-in-6-rounds-he-lands-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/481417\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen says Wardley vs Dubois ends via KO in 6 rounds: “He lands first”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Allen believes that Fabio Wardley<\/a> vs Daniel Dubois<\/a> is, quite simply, a case of who can \u2018land the big one first.\u2019<\/p>\n

It was announced this week that the two monstrous punchers will square off at the Co-op Live Arena<\/a>, Manchester, on May 9, headlining a Queensberry Promotions card.<\/p>\n

This represents Wardley\u2019s first defence of his world heavyweight title, which he acquired after being elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBO champion towards the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Prior to Oleksandr Usyk relinquishing his WBO strap, the Ipswich man had claimed his \u2018interim\u2019 title with an 11th-round stoppage victory over Joseph Parker in October.<\/p>\n

Again, it was a performance where Wardley showed his fearlessness in the heat of battle, dishing out the heavier artillery while trading with his more experienced opponent.<\/p>\n

Dubois, meanwhile, has previously been accused of looking for a way out when the kitchen starts to heat up, like some feel he did against Joe Joyce and in his first encounter with Usyk.<\/p>\n

Since those two defeats, though, the 28-year-old has largely reinvented himself with inside-the-distance victories over Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

And despite suffering a fifth-round stoppage defeat during his rematch with Usyk<\/a> in July, Dubois has been favoured by British heavyweight Dave Allen<\/a> to take Wardley out inside six rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s question marks over his [Dubois\u2019] mentality; how he does under pressure. [But] I don\u2019t think Wardley has the style to really befuddle him the way Usyk did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he has grown out of going down on one knee, like he did with [Joe] Joyce, so I favour Dubois.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think [Wardley\u2019s] been in with a puncher like Dubois yet. Dubois is just as big, just as strong [and] just as powerful [as Wardley], but I think he has the tools, and the boxing skill, and the speed to land the big one first.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a style point of view, Wardley for Daniel is a good match. I\u2019m going to go [with] Dubois inside six [rounds].\u201d<\/p>\n

While many would regard Dubois as the superior technician, largely due to Wardley\u2019s inferior experience, the fact that both men boast a 95% knockout ratio suggests that this fight, more than likely, is not going the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen believes that Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois is, quite simply, a case of who can \u2018land…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-481417","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\/481417","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=481417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}