{"id":655671,"date":"2026-05-07T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:29:18","slug":"wardley-vs-dubois-don-charles-guarantees-no-party-before-daniel-dubois-faces-fabio-wardley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655671\/","title":{"rendered":"Wardley vs Dubois: Don Charles guarantees no party before Daniel Dubois faces Fabio Wardley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubois is aiming to become a two-time world champion when he faces fellow Briton Wardley at Manchester&#8217;s Co-op Live Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joked that they would &#8220;have a bigger party this time&#8221; before insisting the previous gathering had no influence on his performance against Ukraine&#8217;s Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t why I lost,&#8221; Dubois said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went up against one of the greatest fighters of this generation and I&#8217;m glad I have the experience of sharing the ring with him twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cde34z6z6kwo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dubois and Charles parted ways<\/a> after that loss at Wembley, ending their 18-month relationship, but they reunited later in 2025 and have been working towards returning to the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was ticking over and training,&#8221; Charles said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He went on holiday for five weeks to get a bit of sun and went to Tony [Sims] before coming back to familiar territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was not a lot of talking, there was a lot of embracing. I love all my fighters and when he walked in with his father we embraced each other and I said &#8216;welcome home&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubois is aiming to become a two-time world champion when he faces fellow Briton Wardley at Manchester&#8217;s Co-op&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-655671","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\/655671","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=655671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}