{"id":616964,"date":"2026-04-19T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:14:08","slug":"roy-jones-delivers-ko-verdict-on-wardley-vs-dubois-you-better-get-him-out-of-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616964\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones delivers KO verdict on Wardley vs Dubois: “You better get him out of there”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> has offered a measure of analysis on Fabio Wardley<\/a> vs Daniel Dubois<\/a>, branding one of the heavyweights as a \u2018modern-day George Foreman.\u2019<\/p>\n

The pair will headline a Queensberry Promotions card on May 9, with Wardley making the first defence of his WBO world title at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live Arena.<\/p>\n

He was elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full champion immediately after Oleksandr Usyk vacated the belt towards the end of last year, following Wardley\u2019s 11th-round finish over Joseph Parker in October.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, many doubted whether the Ipswich man could compete at world level, even after his brutal stoppages over Justis Huni and Frazer Clarke.<\/p>\n

By defeating Parker, though, the 31-year-old has firmly cemented himself as a top-tier heavyweight, destructive enough to halt proceedings at any given moment.<\/p>\n

The same, to a comparable extent, could be said for Dubois, who has not fought since suffering a fifth-round stoppage defeat to Usyk<\/a> last July.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Londoner was relieved of his IBF world title, which he had previously defended with a fifth-round finish over Anthony Joshua<\/a> in September 2024.<\/p>\n

But while both competitors carry dynamite power, pound-for-pound legend Jones has told Grosvenor Casinos<\/a> that he heavily favours Wardley if their all-British dustup goes past round seven.<\/p>\n

\u201cFabio Wardley is a very, very tough customer. I\u2019ve learned to love watching Fabio, and I refuse to ever count him out again.<\/p>\n

\u201cDubois probably is the better boxer, but he had better get Fabio out early, because if the fight gets past round seven, it becomes a Fabio fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cFabio is a modern-day George Foreman. If Fabio gets to round 7 or 8, you can pretty much kiss the baby goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n

By drawing the Foreman comparison, Jones is highlighting Wardley\u2019s power and grit in the heat of battle \u2013 something he looks to prove once again next month in Manchester against the hardest puncher he has faced so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr has offered a measure of analysis on Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois, branding one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616964","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=616964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}