{"id":507871,"date":"2026-03-01T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507871\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:34:06","slug":"fabio-wardley-vows-to-beat-dubois-and-make-an-another-all-british-heavyweight-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507871\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley vows to beat Dubois and make an another all-British heavyweight fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fabio Wardley<\/a> has plotted another domestic dustup, against another former world champion, which could materialise if he successfully defends his WBO title against Daniel Dubois<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wardley and Dubois will square off in a mouth-watering heavyweight clash on May 9, headlining a Queensberry Promotions card at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live Arena.<\/p>\n

Aptly named \u2018Don\u2019t Blink\u2019, their world title fight has all the ingredients to deliver an explosive shootout, with each man boasting a 95% knockout-to-win ratio.<\/p>\n

Wardley, however, has ultimately been made a slight favourite, given his stunning 11th-round finish over former world champion Joseph Parker<\/a> last October.<\/p>\n

Not long after his victory, the Ipswich man was then upgraded from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBO champion following Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s decision to vacate his belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dubois, meanwhile, has not fought since his fifth-round stoppage defeat to Usyk in July, back when the Londoner lost his IBF strap in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n

In this next contest, though, the 28-year-old certainly represents a dangerous threat, while Wardley has already begun to consider a possible clash with Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 must first get past Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11 but, after that, Wardley firmly believes another all-British world title fight could come to fruition.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Daily Mail Boxing<\/a>, the 31-year-old said he initially tried to make his maiden title defence against Fury, until it became clear that the 37-year-old would first need a comeback fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave him [Fury] an open invitation to say, \u2018Look, if you want it, I\u2019m here. Call me. Just let me know. It\u2019s no bother to me; if you want to go in April, I\u2019ll go in April.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut obviously, he\u2019s fighting Makhmudov and doing his own thing. Hopefully \u2013 fingers crossed \u2013 he comes through that, and then I get through Daniel, and then, on the other side, we find ourselves in Wardley-Fury territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury has not fought since suffering a second points defeat to Usyk in 2024 but, with a win over Makhmudov, perhaps he will soon return to the top end of his division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley has plotted another domestic dustup, against another former world champion, which could materialise if he successfully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-507871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}